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Four New Insights About the Coronavirus
- COVID-19 transmits through the air, but attacks the body as a vascular disease, causing blood clots, affecting many organs including lungs, kidneys, gut, and brain. It causes strokes.
- Blood oxygen level is not the only symptom, so cases may fail to be diagonsed
- Testing is therefore imperative.
- The virus mutates every two weeks
- The original strain was the Wuhan strain. It spread to Asia, Iran, and then Italy.
- The virus mutated in February in Italy to be 5-10 times more transmissible, but not more lethal. That's the strain that spread to the US.
- By Darwinian evolution, viruses typically mutate to become more transmissible, but less lethal, so the host lives longer and infects more other people.
- In 1918, the virus started out very lethal and infected 60-70% of all the people in the world.
- It then went to pigs, until enough vulnerable new humans were born. It reappeared as the H1N1 flu, which is still one of the normal seasonal flus we see every year. It's less lethal and more transmissible.
- You are much safer outdoors than indoors. A Chinese study of 318 centers of transmission found only one that took place outdoors. A Japanese study suggested the chance of infection was 20 times higher indoors than outdoors.
- Indoors, people emit an aerosol that spreads like cigarette smoke, lingering in the air.
- The large protests in the USA did not lead to big infection spikes.
- It should be pretty safe to open grade schools, hecause kids are not big transmitters to adults. The biggest symptom kids get is inflammation, rather than coughing or sneezing.
- Teachers may be at risk, however, because they interact with other adults, like administrators and parents.