"viruses that cause the, ...."
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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Hey, don't associate "Karl" with this. We have enough trouble with the least funny member of the Marx Brothers, the biggest RINO wrangler in the party, and a disproportionate number of serial killers in crime shows.
Reported by Dr Seigle on Tucker’s show last night: virus is getting weaker as time goes by and it takes sustained exposure to get infected.
"viruses that cause the, ...."
The most vulnerable get sick first and get all of the attention. Once the virus sweeps through the most at risk it appears to slow down because it runs into healthy people with strong immune systems.
Also, the treatment is getting better. To say that the decrease in respirators use shows the virus weakening is dumb when it is now known that respirators were actually exacerbating the symptoms. Treatment now calls for less invasive breathing assistance (Cpap).
There are no genetic studies indicating that the virus changed. The only thing that has changed is perceptions.
Thank you, sir-well said! And there is a bright side to all this-now, even here in the middle of nowhere the few liberals hiding among us are easy to spot-they are the ones wearing masks at the grocery and feed stores and giving frightened and disapproving looks to those of us who are not-happily, there appear to be fewer liberals here than I thought...
Viruses ‘know’ nothing.
Early in the contagion, there are a mix of really deadly, and not-so-deadly viruses. The really deadly ones kill off their host — and, thus their chance of reproducing. The not-so-deadly ones leave their hosts alive to produce more and more not-so-deadly viruses. The not-so-deadly viruses are soon in the majority.
Meanwhile, the potent viruses spread quickly, while their sluggard brethren are just too lazy to spread. Before long, the ambitious, potent viruses far outnumber the sluggards, and the virus gets more and more virulent.
Careful who you call dumb.
The Communists strategy (I refuse to call them Democrats any longer) is to enslave us with the Cult of the Mask until November.
We must RESIST!
People have become sheep and slaves, as intended.
All of this has been a lie. Ironic that the left’s Floyd crisis is undermining the ‘Rona crisis. The left now has to decide the bigger crisis and crisis manage crisis. It’s all about getting Trump.
How about Karel’s?
“Would this news have come out if the riots weren’t going on?”
I think you’re right. We probably wouldn’t have heard about it.
Alex Berenson’s coronavirus booklet hits top spot on Amazon after online retailer initially rejected
Alex Berenson’s booklet on coronavirus, “Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1,” became the No. 1 best seller in Amazon’s Kindle Store on Saturday.
Former New York Times reporter and prominent lockdown critic Alex Berenson provides a counterweight to media hysteria about coronavirus in this series of short booklets answering crucial questions about COVID.
Drawing on primary sources from all over the world - including state and national-level government data, Centers for Disease Control reports, and papers in prominent scientific journals - the Essential Guide offers clear, concise, and measured answers to some of the most important questions around the coronavirus:
How are COVID deaths counted?
How many Americans are likely to die in a worst-case scenario?
What is the evidence that lockdowns do or do not help reduce the spread of the illness?
Are masks an effective way to reduce the spread?
Why did the forecasts for coronavirus hospitalizations prove so wrong?
Are children at serious risk from coronavirus?
What has the mental health impact of lockdowns been?
Whether you have been skeptical of the media’s panicked reporting all along or are just starting to wonder why the predictions of doom from March and April have not come to pass, the Essential Guide will provide you with the factual, accurate, and impeccably sourced information you need.
Please note: the Essential Guide will be published in multiple sections. Part 1 includes an introduction, an examination of the way COVID deaths are counted, and a forecast for a potential worst-case scenario of coronavirus deaths in the United States.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/alex-no-1
As documented by Arizona State University’s Genomic Research Center on May 6, 2020, the latest samples of the Wuhanic Plague that they have sequenced are missing 81 base pairs (27 genes, 3 base pairs per gene) present in earlier samples.
The 81 base pairs (27 genes) lost are identical in competition and location to the 81 base pairs (27 genes) that disappeared from COV-1 in 2003, prior to COV-1 disappearing in 2004.
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