I wish everyone would assume this virus is transmitted as an aerosol. Governments worldwide try to say it is not, infection data says it is.
we need to assume the worst...for whatever reason the Chinese went nuts....
here we look in the textbooks about other coronavirus and apply them to this one.....then in the next sentence say that theres a lot we don’t know about this virus
I posted this article over at Reddit last night, but I think we all need to read this in here. Essentially, there is evidence that WuFlu infects the brain stem, causing death. If the signal to breathe is not sent by the brain, you die.
The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2 may be at least partially responsible for the respiratory failure of COVID-19 patients.
Review article
Li YC, et al. J Med Virol. 2020.
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Abstract
Following the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), another highly pathogenic coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 (previously known as 2019-nCoV) emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and rapidly spreads around the world. This virus shares highly homological sequence with SARS-CoV, and causes acute, highly lethal pneumonia (COVID-19) with clinical symptoms similar to those reported for SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. The most characteristic symptom of COVID-19 patients is respiratory distress, and most of the patients admitted to the intensive care could not breathe spontaneously. Additionally, some COVID-19 patients also showed neurologic signs such as headache, nausea and vomiting. Increasing evidence shows that coronavriruses are not always confined to the respiratory tract and that they may also invade the central nervous system inducing neurological diseases. The infection of SARS-CoV has been reported in the brains from both patients and experimental animals, where the brainstem was heavily infected. Furthermore, some coronaviruses have been demonstrated able to spread via a synapse-connected route to the medullary cardiorespiratory center from the mechano- and chemoreceptors in the lung and lower respiratory airways. In light of the high similarity between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV2, it is quite likely that the potential invasion of SARS-CoV2 is partially responsible for the acute respiratory failure of COVID-19 patients. Awareness of this will have important guiding significance for the prevention and treatment of the SARS-CoV-2-induced respiratory failure. (229 words) This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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It’s the response of China that tells me far more about the seriousness of the disease than any official statements they make.
I’m going to be prepared for the worst case scenario, and if it doesn’t happen, nothing lost and it didn’t hurt anyone else.
And if I catch it anyways, well, my life is in God’s hands and HE decides when my number is up. And I know where I’m going as I’ve made my peace with Him.
Nobody gets out of this life alive.
It’s just when and where and how. But I am still not taking any foolish chances.