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Varicella is more infectious than SARS-CoV-2 and it's under control with vaccines, same pattern: spread through the air, R0 chickenpox > R0 COVID-19, vaccines h
by piva00 5y ago
Varicella is more infectious than SARS-CoV-2 and it's under control with vaccines, same pattern: spread through the air, R0 chickenpox > R0 COVID-19, vaccines help with immunity and even when infected developing a mild version of the disease.
There is hope, we might not get rid off it but if we could control chickenpox that is quite more infectious, we can have a little hope. Even more with more modern medicine.
- mdp2021 5y ago> Varicella is more infectious than SARS-CoV-2 Well. So it was in our tentative models at the time of this author's writing (8 days). So it is not any more, as of a few days only (3 days). ...Ray Kurzweil was right. /Bitter Joke.