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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Could End
Scientific American ^ | April 28, 2020 | Lydia Denworth

Posted on 04/28/2020 5:14:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

We know how the COVID-19 pandemic began: Bats near Wuhan, China, hold a mix of coronavirus strains, and sometime last fall one of the strains, opportunistic enough to cross species lines, left its host or hosts and ended up in a person. Then it was on the loose.

What no one knows yet is how the pandemic will end. This coronavirus is unprecedented in the combination of its easy transmissibility, a range of symptoms going from none at all to deadly, and the extent that it has disrupted the world. A highly susceptible population led to near exponential growth in cases. “This is a distinct and very new situation,” says epidemiologist and evolutionary biologist Sarah Cobey of the University of Chicago.

But past pandemics do offer hints of the future. While there is no one historical example to follow, humanity has gone through several large epidemics in the past 100 or so years that eventually stopped ravaging society. The ways they came to a halt offer guidance to a world looking for ways to restore health and some sense of normalcy. Three of those experiences, Cobey and other experts say, suggest that what happens next depends on both the evolution of the pathogen and of the human response to it, both biological and social.

(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirusinfo; chinesepropaganda; nosciencehere; pandaguano; pandemics; sciam4chinaterrorism
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To: MinorityRepublican

It has already ended, now they are just looking for away to wind it down so the blame will not fall on them.


21 posted on 04/28/2020 6:13:03 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: MinorityRepublican
I read every issue of SA for 25 years, cover-to-cover and usually sequentially.

Still have them boxed up.

This is why I ended my subscription not long after they changed, not only format, but being a scientific magazine - all anthropomorphic global warming/climate change all the time.

22 posted on 04/28/2020 6:16:00 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (AOC has the perfect face for the 'Rat Party - Hee-Haw)
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To: MinorityRepublican
We know how the COVID-19 pandemic began:....

So says the "SCIENCE!!!!!!" magazine.

23 posted on 04/28/2020 6:16:34 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Diogenesis

AND they got Gates and Soros to fund them.
Were Gates and Soros given a position on the bats’ Board?
_____________________
And also Fauxi sending them $3.7M in 2017 to do things that are illegal in the U.S.


24 posted on 04/28/2020 6:27:58 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: MinorityRepublican

But... but... but... it’s the science.

Bat’s in the belfry is their problem.


25 posted on 04/28/2020 6:29:09 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: LastDayz

and SCIENCE brought
This Crap Out
in the first Place!


26 posted on 04/28/2020 6:35:11 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Democrats will end the pandemic when the Republicans get moving on other issues.


27 posted on 04/28/2020 6:46:47 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nice try, Lydia. The horseshoe bat that in question is only found in caves 900 miles from Wuhan, not very “near,” as you state. You really ought to watch more TV.


28 posted on 04/28/2020 6:53:54 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: MinorityRepublican

We know how the COVID-19 pandemic began: Bats near Wuhan, China, hold a mix of coronavirus strains, and sometime last fall one of the strains, opportunistic enough to cross species lines, left its host or hosts and ended up in a person.
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What we know is those particular bats are not found near Wuhan except in that lab where the transmission to humans likely occurred.


29 posted on 04/28/2020 7:10:15 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Those bats live in caves about 600 miles near Wu Han.


30 posted on 04/28/2020 7:24:34 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe burn)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We know how the COVID-19 pandemic began: Bats near Wuhan, China, hold a mix of coronavirus strains, and sometime last fall one of the strains, opportunistic enough to cross species lines, left its host or hosts and ended up in a person. Then it was on the loose.

U

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Full

of

Guano....


31 posted on 04/28/2020 7:34:17 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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>> We know how the COVID-19 pandemic began

You’re FOS, Lydia.


32 posted on 04/28/2020 7:35:31 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It will end when:

1. It becomes obvious that many multiples of people have already had it than they assumed, and acted upon. Meaning, morbidity is 0.5% or less.

2. It becomes obvious that it you don’t lockdown, it burns itself out fairly fast.

3. It becomes indisputable that HCQ prevents it in the first place.

So far:
1. Many studies being done, and about 7 already completed.

2. Sweden, and several other countries showing no disaster by not locking down.

3. Several countries already prescribing widely for prevention, including India (1st responders and med personnel). Some large populations elsewhere doing it, too, and several controlled studies with very large cohorts.

If. We. Survive. The. Economic. Pandemic. Our. Idiot. Leaders. Caused.

Otherwise, moot. Enjoy your bridge or cave.


33 posted on 04/28/2020 7:43:59 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Unredact the 99 Collyer Report!!!)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

If we took no actions in March, I think we will see between 100,000 to 200,000 dead Americans by now. On the other hand, we would probably start our recovery in May and possibly be done with it in June. Like you said, it would burn itself out fast.


34 posted on 04/28/2020 7:47:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Vendome

I stopped reading there. At least they started right off with the BS so I only had to read one sentence.


35 posted on 04/28/2020 7:48:59 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: MHGinTN

It’s probably going to be a combination of those three.

Some people will be infected and survive and thus develop an immunity on their own, some will be infected and die, some will be given the antiviral soup and most will survive and eventually some will be given the vaccine.


36 posted on 04/28/2020 8:51:29 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I think you mean “anthropogenic.” ;-)

We used to get National Geographic, but dumped it for the same reason.


37 posted on 04/29/2020 7:42:32 AM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: MHGinTN

>> Make a drug cocktail like HCQ + Doxycycline + zinc supplementation available (without restriction to hospitals only), so every physician and physician’s assistant can write the scripts at first sign of a symptom and open the nation up to go back to being

That is the solution, we could end this thing today


38 posted on 04/29/2020 7:45:07 AM PDT by GulfMan
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To: Theo

Duh! Yes I did. Probably shouldn’t post after bottling beer.


39 posted on 04/29/2020 8:52:58 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (AOC has the perfect face for the 'Rat Party - Hee-Haw)
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To: Diogenesis

Fauci funded the Chinese bio-lab via the NIH, too.


40 posted on 04/30/2020 7:46:18 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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