Bingo.
How long does the virus stay with people who are infected? Say you are a young person infected with it and you don't feel very sick, yet you stay inside for 2 weeks or so, until the virus is done it's business. The more people staying inside for the right amount of time, young people not feeling sick included, the less spread. If there is less spread there is less chance of people being infected when they go out. If you can quarantine people for the right amount of time very early, it should be manageable to control the spread that way and eventually stop it from reaching every guy and their grandmother?
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Even those who wrote the paper don't make those conclusions. All they write is "We note that social distancing interventions were invoked on Feb 23rd in Lodi but until March 8th in Bergamo, providing some empirical evidence for the potential of “flattening the curve” interventions." That is it and they move on to other things. On Twitter meanwhile they caution against people drawing the conclusions that they want to draw.
About two weeks should be all right in theory. If it turns out you can't get re-infected, the spread will slow down gradually as there'll be fewer and fewer people you can catch it from.
As far as I know though there’s nothing much to suggest we’ll build an immunity to it, like the flu or cold. Hopefully that’s not the case though.
It really will be like the Walking Dead TV show in the US if it gets really bad
That'd be pretty tragic. If you can easily get re-infected with same risk it basically means it'll wipe out nearly everyone who's over 60 within 5-10 years, unless we find vaccine?
What?! This combined with being able to get re-infected would mean the world is basically over.
Isn't the first time such a story has come out. There's also been stories saying you are immune from the virus after recovering. Also stories saying you have an extremely low chance of getting it again within a year but are not immune. Nobody has a fecking clue.
Mascots need groceries too!
Nothing’s changed then
Americans buying guns
Italians having heated arguments on balconies
British buying all the bog roll
Older people have usually debilitated immune systems, which makes them vulnerable to being infected by the same disease again. It happens with almost every disease, not exclusive of COVID
Unthinkably fecked. The world as we know it would be over.
Where you getting that from out of interest? I thought I'd seen 5-7 days for recovery so that would mean a further 28 days as infectious which is hard to believe
Indeed. It could also be that, as described the the article above, the virus is bi-phasic - you get sick, recover and then get sick again (without actually being re-infected). Too soon to say.
Isn't that just to different strains rather than the same strain? Of course that could be what's happening right now
Post-exposure immunization doesn't usually work 100%, whether from vaccines or natural exposure to the pathogen. Some can get pretty close to 100% but it varies.
So long as the virus doesn't mutate you'll likely build an immunity to it. There's a lot to suggest that's the case actually. The body does build immunity to flu, hence we give small doses of the virus in a vaccine shot to build up immunisation. If you couldn't build immunity to it, vaccines would be pointless wouldn't they.
That sounds rational.
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you will. Monday's are usually the busiest day on the tube too. it will get quieter and quieter.
For old person with a normal immune system yes. For those with weak immune systems, they can get the same infection. Some people even get infected by childhood diseases if their immune system is not working properly. That's why oncology patients are at high risk.
Has christ returned? Good timing if true.
@MaxiPaxi this is the answer to what we were talking aout the other day. Thanks Andre.
Shits about to get real.
Nah, bad timing. He'll get infected!
there wont be a thread... there wont be an internet... we will be living in a post apocalyptic dystopia... the worlds population will be measured in the hundreds after the impending toilet paper war turn nuclear
This is the worst person in Norway.quick translation said:
So I shouldn't have retired to my underground bunker? Damn!
He's on his way back don't worry.
