There were in fact 60-100,000 new cases today.

Not a chance of less than 500K total US deaths now by the end of Winter and I'd put good money on over 750K dead by mid 2021

very fun fact: about 1 in 1000 american black people has died of covid so far

  • lvysaur [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    “Recovered” just means theyre not transmitting any more.

    No, it means they're just not transmitting at that moment. They could even transmit later, there's one dude in China who got tested 9 times across a period of a few months. First 8 tests negative, last 1 positive. He was sick the whole time.

    This virus is akin to airborne HIV, possibly worse.

      • lvysaur [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That along with the chance of reinfection

        I don't know if reinfection is possible. I think it's more likely that most reinfections are actually reactivations. I have no evidence to back that up though, but it seems extremely unlikely that you'd clear a virus once and then get it just as bad again.

        The real problem (that nobody wants to confront) is that there's 0 evidence that the virus is ever cleared from the body. It possibly even infects/transfers DNA into gut bacteria, which is evidenced by success stories of antibiotics in clearing symptoms, but the symptoms coming back later

          • lvysaur [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            yeah, 3 months is the lower end estimate.

            I read medical accounts of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). These happened pre-COVID.

            I read two stories about women who contracted some kind of virus, and developed CFS as a result.
            They tested negative for the virus several times during their lives.
            After they died, they found virus in the brain via autopsy. One of the women was 20 when she contracted the viral illness, and I think she died sometime in her 30s? Details are fuzzy but the part that stood out was the repeated testing negative despite having the physical virus in their bodies. Can't remember what virus it was either.

              • lvysaur [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                That sucks, sounds worse than COVID.

                For the record I absolutely would not take the COVID vaccine under any circumstances. There's no way I trust the most rushed through vaccine in human history. And even if it were safe, I'm skeptical that it would do any good for someone who already contracted the disease.