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Originally Posted by siberian khatru
You realize that swine flu stat was the final score, and we’re in the first quarter of the Covid game? That Covid is highly contagious and its infection rate increases exponentially? It doesn’t go 1, 2, 3, 4 ... It goes 1, 2, 4, 16, 32 ...
The fear isn’t that it’s the Andromeda Strain and people will drop dead in the streets. It’s that infections will explode and overwhelm the health care system. We’re trying to slow the infection rate — “bend the curve.”
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It's more like we're 2 minutes into the first qtr than being a 4th of the way through the game.
There's an animated timeline graph out there that shows why Covid-19 is more dangerous than SARS even though SARS has a higher mortality rate. The infection rate of Covid-19 due to the asymptomatic contagiousness, long incubation time, and long period of recovery that requires hospitalization for two weeks makes this especially insidious and dangerous for healthcare systems even if it's mortality rates are a "pedestrian" 1-3.5% compared to more lethal pathogens that tend to burn bright, but burn out quickly.