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To: kickstart

“Sounds like the common cold.”

Corona is the basis for the common cold. Covid-19 is super corona.

As a non medical observer, I note that there never has been a vaccine for the common cold. I doubt there will be a vaccine for this. The only way forward is to accept the risks and live life.


13 posted on 04/21/2020 6:02:35 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: brownsfan

Check MMWR over the years. Coronavirus aren’t even competent to be a very significant cause of the common cold.


27 posted on 04/21/2020 6:16:53 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: brownsfan
As a non medical observer, I note that there never has been a vaccine for the common cold. I doubt there will be a vaccine for this. The only way forward is to accept the risks and live life.

A vaccine to prevent the common cold has been difficult to make, primarily because there are more than 200 different varieties of viruses that can cause colds.

Rhinoviruses account for nearly 75% of common colds and there’s at least 160 different strains or serotypes of rhinovirus (coronaviruses and adenoviruses making up the rest) so making a single cold vaccine is challenging.

Additionally, unlike influenza and now COVID-19, few people have serious complications or die from “common” colds so even if a single vaccine for rhinoviruses were developed (and they are working on it) it probably would only be given to those at highest risk such as people with COPD or cystic fibrosis.

29 posted on 04/21/2020 6:17:33 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: brownsfan
The only way forward is to accept the risks and live life.

But....but....but......orange man bad
82 posted on 04/21/2020 8:08:24 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: brownsfan

Common colds can come from both rhinoviruses (which the Chinese Frankenvirus amazingly seems to start out as in most symptomatic patients) and the milder coronaviruses (which tend to occupy the lower respiratory tract). This POS pretends to be a rhinovirus, and should the body’s response not be robust enough, then goes south to the lungs, heart, kidneys, etc. The Chicomms really created a monster here, albeit one that won’t have a high a death rate, in the end, as we feared.


92 posted on 04/21/2020 2:48:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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