Posted on 02/27/2020 8:31:44 AM PST by NRx
Pope Francis has been forced to cancel a planned Mass in Rome with other clergy after suffering a 'slight illness'.
The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a 'slight indisposition' that meant he did not attend an event at the St John Lateran basilica in Rome on Thursday morning.
A spokesman said Francis would continue with the rest of his day's business, but preferred to stay within the Vatican rather than travel across the city.
There was no word from the Vatican about the nature of his illness, but the pope was seen coughing and blowing his nose during the Ash Wednesday Mass.
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Also, I think it depends on how much virus you inhale. If you are around a lot of people who have it, you will get a much larger dose. Also some other commenter mentioned that Francis only has one lung, so it might cause him distress doubly fast.
They smoke like chimneys in Iran. Also I am sure their cities have air pollution problems. There is some sort of Shia religious festival going on in Qum. They don’t want to curtail it on religious grounds. So you have a uncontrolled concentration of people.
Pretty fertile ground for an respiratory disease epidemic.
I thought that the incubation period was about 24 days.
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The mean incubation period is 5 to 6 days.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30026-1/fulltext
...could not have happened to a more deserving guy...
If he gets it be is a goner. He only has one lung.
I wish Dope Francis well.
I also wish he would stop promoting Marxism, paganism, luciferianism, etc.
“Off topic a bit but it is weird that in Iran top officials are coming down with covid-19”
A lot of the mullahs are old men (70+) and in poor shape anyway; it would be expected if they were exposed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/breaking_news/article-8051765/Irans-vice-president-spokeswoman-1979-hostage-takers-infected-coronavirus.html
Maybe he got it from the Iranian ambassador to the Vatican who just died of corona virus infection.....
Makes me nostalgic for the colds of the Kremlin.
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As the little kid from Kindergarten Cop would say:
“It might be the Wu Flu.”
I saw something in one of my news feeds today where this virus has a 14% reinfection rate.
So someone who just overcame the virus can get it again.
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