Covid-19: Super Flu or a Mild Cold?

American Thinker ^ | 03/20/2020 | By Anthony J. Ciani

[SeekAndFind]

With symptoms ranging from a gasping death to nothing at all, one has to wonder whether COVID-19 is a super flu or a mild cold. Have we ruined our economy over nothing or saved millions of people from death? If COVID-19 is a mild cold, how did we mistake it for a super flu?

There are over 200 different viruses that cause the common cold. The most common are rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses, and respiratory syncytial viruses. The average person gets one to three colds per year, and due to the large variety of viruses responsible, there is no vaccine. Influenza is another common respiratory virus. Cold or flu, respiratory viruses present similar symptoms and follow the same life cycle.

Launched into the environment from their current host, they might survive long enough to find another. Typically by inhalation, they might make their way to the mucosa. They might make it past the wall of mucus to the underlying cells, where they might manage to infect one. Irritated by the intruder, the cells send an alarm and macrophages soon begin the equivalent of carpet bombing. The release of cytotoxic chemicals causes tissue damage and even more irritation. The mucosa releases more mucus, filling the sinuses and dripping into the lungs. Cilia move mucus out of the lungs up to the throat, where most of it makes its way to the stomach, but coughing is also an option, launching virus into the environment.

The more specialized 'T' and 'B' lymphocytes make their way to the infection where they test the infectious agent to determine if they are a good match. Once a 'B' cell matches close enough, the precision strikes start. The adaptive immune system further alters its genetics to make an even better match.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Thank you
Can you tell me what is the death rate of those that contracted the Coronavirus?

Here is a chart they're giving us to help you out
https://corona-stats.online/

[riri]

A memo went out yesterday via my company, a co-worker has it. She works at a different location/state. She is 32, not hospitalized but very sick.

A friend of mine has a cousin who has it. She is a personal trainer in NYC. One of her clients is an ER nurse and another man (late 80s) who comes into the gym had just gotten back from Italy had it. He died two days ago. It was unclear whether she trained him or not. She was in the ER but not hospitalized. I presume late 40s-early 50s.

Both have been sick for about 10 days and counting.

[romanesq]

It’s not over. There’s over a 1,000 deaths in Italy in the two last days.

[Steve Van Doorn]

China and Italy received the failed SARS vaccine of 2004. Which causes infection in the lungs for new strains SARS virus. This particular vaccine forced the 2 billion dollar company Chiron corporation out of business.

[b4its2late]

Probably would be worse if a smoker or pot smoker even.