Some Perspective On The COVID-19/SARS-COV-2

Confronting scaremongering & hysteria! No room for medieval superstition in the 20th year of the 21st century! Voices of reason come finally forward!

"But a new study of nine people who contracted the virus in Germany suggests that people are mainly contagious before they have symptoms and in the first week of the disease. ... Patients produced thousands to millions of viruses in their noses and throats, about 1,000 times as much virus as produced in SARS patients, ... That heavy load of viruses may help explain why the new coronavirus is so infectious. ... After the eighth day of symptoms, the researchers could still detect the virus’s genetic material, RNA, in patients’ swabs or samples, but could no longer find infectious viruses. That’s an indication that antibodies that the body’s immune system makes against SARS-CoV-2 are killing viruses that get out of cells  Most had coughs, but only two developed a fever, the most common symptom reported in other studies.  Most symptoms were mild and one person never developed any at all. " 

"Enter the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Quarantined at sea off Japan after a passenger tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the ship became a natural data lab where nearly everyone was tested and few cases of infection were missed.  ... As of February 20, tests of most of the 3,711 people aboard the Diamond Princess confirmed that 634, or [only] 17 percent, had the virus; 328 of them did not have symptoms at the time of diagnosis. Of those with symptoms, the fatality ratio was 1.9 percent,  ... Of all infected, that ratio was 0.91 percent. Those 70 and older were most vulnerable, with an overall fatality ratio of about 7.3 percent."

Cruise ship outbreak helps pin down how deadly the new coronavirus is | Science News: Infections and deaths on the Diamond Princess suggest that, in the real world, 0.5 percent of COVID-19 infections in China end in death.


Coronavirus is most contagious before, during first week of symptoms | Science News: As major efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic go into effect around the globe, researchers are figuring out just when patients are most contagious.