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That sounds preposterous. Citation? Or is this some anti-vaxxer propaganda? Of course the virus can be eliminated. Like every cold that goes around, once R0 dro
by JoeAltmaier 6y ago
That sounds preposterous. Citation? Or is this some anti-vaxxer propaganda?
Of course the virus can be eliminated. Like every cold that goes around, once R0 drops below 1 it dies out and we never see it again. Completely gone. There is no long-lasting latent virus outside of a living organism, not like bacteria.
- schreiaj 6y agoIf the theory that it made the jump from another animal turns out to be true it means there’s a reservoir of virus in nature and short of developing some vaccine and distribution plan for that species it will be there. Or I guess eradicating the species. But that seems harmful.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoLets not make this sound like some surprising new thing. COVID from animals jump every year and its called 'a cold'. Always a different one. Always quite different ones. This one will never recur.
- bluGill 6y agoThis is an unknown. We know covid has spread to minks. There have been reports that it can spread to other animals. If covid spreads to something wild we may always have COVID coming back to humans from the wild animals around.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoWe have 'COVID' spreading every year. Its called 'a cold'. The entire issue is, will this particularly pernicious one return. That is very unlikely (by many decimal places).