“Now is not the time to lower our guard. Now is the time to evaluate if we need to do more, and to ensure we maintain precautions as America returns to work.”
I agree wholeheartedly. While I pray we have a nice long summer break, it is way to early to say we are winning. Flattening the curve is not a victory, it is just slowing things down enough to keep healthcare from being overwhelmed. Once healthcare fails, all bets are off. Maybe HCQ will mitigate this epidemic and if so, that will be a godsend!
I believe there is a better strain and a worse strain.
I also have a theory that where viral loads are the greatest, there are more severe outcomes. I don’t just mean hospitals, but grocery stores, etc. let’s say you have a hospital full of cv patients. A nurse works there who has a heavy viral load. She goes grocery shopping and exhales and a customer catches it. Maybe that is not enough for a severe case. But once you have enough infectious people in that grocery store, the load gets heavier. At some point there may be a viral load in terms of infectious population so heavy it hangs over the city with air pollution and in ground water runoff.
I’m short what I am saying, the more people that get sick in an area, the sicker they get. While in mild areas the high risk and elderly succumb because it does not take a heavy viral load to kill them. But in heavily endemic areas as well as close quarters, many of the young will have severe outcomes, die to heavy viral loads.
Just my theory.
Good theory Lil. I think receiving an initial heavy viral load was the explanation of why so many young health care workers, and doctors, were dying.
And I'm just as worried about the long term affects. My niece seems to be better, but still isn't back to her old vibrant self. Heaven help her if she has a relapse in her current state.
I've had bad cases of the flu, and always within a few days of it clearing up, I was back to my old self. No way did it ever take weeks to recover from it.