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‘Officers are scared out there’: Coronavirus hits US police

https://apnews.com/069d01bafbb1f15b1f6c4a4479ab1456

Any and every encounter could result in infection. Even with a mask and gloves.

This is a big red flag for cities across the nation.

I am very interested in the virology. The Daily Thread is mostly about the epidemiology which I try to leave to others.

I can interpret the question in two ways:
1) Clinically speaking- What are the doctors seeing as their patients present who are thought to have strong immune systems? Or,

2) Virologically speaking - What is it about this germ that makes otherwise healthy people sick?

Number one I have no business answering.
Number two same probably, but that is the part precisely which fascinates me. Welcoming contradiction and correction from you and all my FRiends here and with no feelings to be hurt by any smackdown, I offer some thoughts.

1) It is a bat coronavirus. It still retains so much of that feature after jumping into us, that it is not making the children sick. A normal immune system can destroy it. (All this panic over-hype, you fearpers!)
2) It is SARS-2. It ought to be as deadly as SARS, and it can cause the dread cytokine storm in some people. An overactive immune system will destroy you!
(You flubros are gonna eat your words in a couple of weeks!)
3) It has a split in the spike protein. This gives it a second infection pathway into the cells and those families, and those individuals who are really good at producing the ACE2 receptors, they are going to get bad sick. (Is there a treatment/vaccine?!)

Justin Lessler, PhD at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg in Baltimore says that the children are asymptomatic carriers of the disease. Junior is going to give it to his grandmother who may very well die. Please tell me that he is wrong if you can. Thanks all!