Saturday, May 02, 2020

What Can Other Coronaviruses Tell Us About SARS-CoV-2?

Recommendable! Given all that knowledge we had on human coronaviruses collected over 50 years, it is very disturbing why so many economies were essentially shutdown and so many citizens forced into quarantine by politicians! Mass hysteria and panic fueled by so called medical experts and gullible politicians lead to a total, unwarranted overreaction! Let this be a lesson for the ages!

"But medical researchers have more than half a century of experience with this family of viruses — by the time they identified the first human version in 1965, multiple animal coronaviruses were already known to exist. ... We now know of four that cause the common cold: HCoV-OC43, HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-HKU1. (HCoV stands for “human coronavirus.” A number of other human strains were also reported in the 1960s, but they were lost and not studied in detail.) Since 2003, we have identified more serious human coronaviruses, which have caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and now COVID-19. ... Prior research demonstrated that gastrointestinal symptoms were also an issue with some SARS patients during the 2003 outbreak. ... "

What Can Other Coronaviruses Tell Us About SARS-CoV-2? | Quanta Magazine: As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, our extensive knowledge of other coronaviruses informs our understanding.

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