Why isn’t Russia reporting?
Rich Russians love to shop in Italy. Surprising there is no large outbreak in Moscow.
Obviously, the morbidity factor is a concern. I’m mildly immuno-suppressed due to being in remission from Leukemia for 2 1/2 years.
But what has me most concerned is whether we can minimize the number of new cases enough so that it doesn’t crash our medical system. IIRC, we’re seeing that in Italy now. Yes, I understand that there are other factors at play in Italy that are causing stress on their medical system.
But given that we still don’t know everything about this disease (for example, can it or will it make inroads into the under 50 age bracket, etc), I wonder sometimes if closing restaurants, movie theatres, etc isn’t the worst idea? If CV (and I know there’s not guarantee that it will) makes inroads in the above described age bracket, it will cause additional stress to our medical system.
And while I get it that many millennial snots are not taking this too seriously, they may find themselves on the losing end of that bet. But then again, so will the rest of us. About the only decent option we have is to try to minimize contact and self-quarantine.
Russia has reported 147 total cases so far.
0 deaths, 8 recovered.