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Did all that prevent infection or simply spread out the infection propagation from a few weeks to 1.5 years?
by barbacoa 5y ago
Did all that prevent infection or simply spread out the infection propagation from a few weeks to 1.5 years?
- contriban 5y agoYou have a point in that this should not have lasted this long if the world was able to lock down completely until 0 cases for 8 weeks. Other than that, what do you think would have happened if life continued unperturbed in early 2020? Do you think we’d be over it already? I don’t think that’s correct, to be polite.
- barbacoa 5y agoIt's too late. The genie is out of the bottle. The moment the virus escaped Wuhan there was/is no stopping it. You'll never get a coordinated world wide lockdown sufficient to stop all infection. And being a strain of flu it will likely coevolve with any vaccine we throw at it. Local strains are already showing resistance against various vaccines. There was even a covid-19 breakout amongst the Yankees team even though they were all vaccinated.
- StrictDabbler 5y agoCoronaviruses are a family of viruses. Influenza belongs to a different family of viruses called Orthomyxoviridae. Saying that covid-19 is a strain of flu is like saying that lions are a form of dog.
- ViViDboarder 5y agoSpreading the infection from a few weeks to 1.5 years saves lives. If you look at total cases vs hospital capacity it’s easy to see why. If you have rapid case growth outpacing hospital beds you see deaths like we saw early on in NYC and Italy or currently in India. On top of that, it kept cases down until vaccines became available, cutting down on total possibly infected populations.