Posted on 06/06/2020 11:41:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center say the coronavirus appears to be becoming less potent.
Dr Donald Yealy, chair of emergency medicine at UPMC, explained at a press conference on Thursday that people seem to be contracting the virus less easily and cases appear to be less severe then when the pandemic first took hold in the US early this year.
'The virus may be changing,' Yealy said. 'Some patterns suggest the potency is diminished.'
He noted that UPMC has successfully treated more than 500 coronavirus patients since March, and in recent weeks fewer patients are requiring ventilators to help them breathe.
Less than four percent of all tests and only 0.2 percent of tests in asymptomatic patients are coming back positive, he said, indicating that the virus is less prevalent in the communities UPMC serves.
The doctors' findings that the virus could be declining in potency came days after researchers in Italy announced that patients there were showing much smaller amounts of the virus in their system, compared to samples taken during the peak of the crisis in March and April.
Professor Alberto Zangrillo, head of intensive care at Italy's San Raffaele Hospital in Lombardy, went so far as to say that the virus 'clinically no longer exists' during a Sunday interview on state television.
But World Health Organization experts and a range of other scientists quickly rejected Zangrillo's claims on Monday, saying there is no evidence to support the assertion that the coronavirus has been losing potency.
'In terms of transmissibility, that has not changed, in terms of severity, that has not changed,' WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove told reporters.
It is not unusual for viruses to mutate and adapt as they spread.
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Why lose strength over time? I think it’s the power of prayer. As corny as it that sounds.
Of course WHO has a problem with the decrease. They and the rest of the leftist world love this crisis.
They are not like normal people, who are actually happy about this turn of events.
It was never more potent. This is the biggest scam in world history.
I guess that's why the rabid leftists can have their demonstrations(riots), while weddings, church services, etc., are verboten.
Another possible reason is that the herd already had antibodies from exposure to other coronaviruses that protect them from this, or make the effects of an exposure very mild.
Eventually the virus runs out of hosts and burns out. About a 70 day cycle. This was modeled by Nobel winner Michael Levitt of Stanford, as far back as March. As well as others. I heard today some drug trials in US hospitals are in jeopardy because the number of patients is declining fast
Uh, duh...at least the Demoncrats and low IQ crowd are easily identifiable...the ones still wearing masks.
The earlier potency was presumed, based on extrapolations from nursing homes and media coverage of the worst cases. Now we’re stuck with breathing stale air from masks, closed businesses, and children getting no education.
Typical virus... They come, they go. Always have, always will. The difference between this virus and all the others in history... During this virus we locked down the healthy with the sick... That created more death not less death and it destroyed the worlds economy.
Still waiting for that massive resurgence all the lefty media preached would happen in Japan and Sweden?
Don’t bother, it ain’t happening.
Sweden... 4,656 deaths.
Japan... 915 deaths.
The biggest lie from the shelter and cower thugs was/is, “We need to close our schools and colleges to protect our precious kids.”
That age group was never in danger from this virus and still is not.
This age group basically never got the Corona Media Flu:
The 0 to 24 age group in the CDC chart below:
Check the blue line in the chart below. 0 to 24 years of age.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex
The insanity of the Mediot Corona~19 pushers is so different from red state to red state.
Here in Californicator land, guys can now get haircuts and women can go to a beautician.
Yet in a Minneapolistan suburb, you still can’t get a haircut.
We both have Karen’s and Karl’s wearing masks and gloves while outside with no one near, driving and writing letters to the editors complaining about us not wearing a mask while walking in our yards.
In both blue states, going to Church is maybe the most dangerous thing we can do.
Cause the... what? Cause the what? We want to know. The common cold? What? CAUSE THE WHAT???
Man, what a hook.
No, WTT?
Read what you reposted.
(I think the missing word is “cold,” not “Francis.”)
See post 33, as well as 17.
That is utter stupid ignorant nonsense. How do all the viruses know to all get less potent and virulent all at the same time?
Obviously the virus was caught by the weakest people first, leaving the more resistant to catch it now.
99% of people are too dumb to speak.
Exactly. Less deadly strains can coexist with the human host and stand a better chance of surviving.
A barber should set up a barber chair in the middle of a “peaceful” prot-riot, wear a Black Lives Matter shirt, and offer free haircuts. Though the irony would be lost on the idiots, I think.
Thank you!
Golly! Really! Wow!
Just so long as you wear your combination kevlar/asbestos suit for both gunfire and regular fire.
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