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Europe braces for monster 2nd coronavirus wave
- just-juan-post 6y agoFrance, Spain, UK, and Italy from Feb 15 to Oct 13 https://i.imgur.com/7EKmXgA.png https://i.imgur.com/7EKmXgA.png
- onecommentman 6y agoEpidemic, but a “casedemic” but not a “deathdemic’ in the second wave as presented, unless I’m misreading it.
- RickS 6y agoIs there a prevailing theory for why these second waves match the first wave in case count, but with almost none of the deaths?
- Barrin92 6y agothe only one that seems plausible is that we missed, put plainly, a metric fuckton of cases in spring
- saganus 6y agoI have no supporting evidence, but I'd like to think it's due to a better understanding of how to treat sick people.
- Gravityloss 6y agoAlso old people are isolated better now.
- rasz 6y agoNo to barely any tests between January-March
- barumi 6y agoI would add that up to March we still had public officials repeating China's claims that covid19 was not easily transmissible.
- lucian1900 6y agoThat was never claimed by Chinese medics, merely that at the time they had not observed it to be transmissible. This is relevant since SARS wasn’t transmissible, so it’s an aspect that has to be determined scientifically for each virus.
- radiospiel 6y agodifferent age structure of infected cases over the summer.
- redis_mlc 6y agoWell, of course. Corona is a very contagious disease, and we have these options: 1) weld everybody in for 2 weeks (tried in China). 2) deliver a vaccine (but almost half of Americans won't take it) 3) get to herd immunity. Most countries are fooling themselves by pretending there's another option, including the US today. The US is doing #3, but is in denial.