There have been 9 deaths in the State of Washington caused by the Coronavirus so far...and that is NO MYTH!
There's plenty of nonsense about the coronavirus online. Here are some of the biggest COVID-19 myths out there and the science to explain why they aren't true.
12 Coronavirus myths busted by science : Read more
There's plenty of nonsense about the coronavirus online. Here are some of the biggest COVID-19 myths out there and the science to explain why they aren't true.
12 Coronavirus myths busted by science : Read more
There's plenty of nonsense about the coronavirus online. Here are some of the biggest COVID-19 myths out there and the science to explain why they aren't true.
12 Coronavirus myths busted by science : Read more
Loaded answer on could it be lab created.
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But the ODDS are with NATURAL mutation
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Still we also have a few decades of technological disaster saying its not impossible:
Regarding #2 "
Myth: You're waaaay less likely to get this than the flu
Not necessarily. "
I disagree with the way this is said. At least in most places, you ARE way more likely to get the flu. Although the coronavirus has a higher R0, it is not circulating widely in the United States and most countries. And not only is the flu potentially deadly, illness can last a very long time and cause disability and interruption of your life/career. So people should be taking the flu seriously and get a flu shot. Especially since it could be devastating to get both viruses at the same time.
To correct you a dog has tested positive in the last week of one of the infecteds owners. So you might want to correct that. Misinformation is bad.
Article says: "No evidence suggests that the virus is man-made."
Actually, yes, there is evidence to suggest the virus is man made. The evidence is conviniently placed on page two of Google's search list. It is a cheap trick to use the term "science" as rhetoric to convey 'authority' and manipulate people's thinking. Consider the statement, "there is no evidence to support the theory of evolution--evolution debunked by science!" Obviously, there definitely is evidence to support the theory of evolution. But to take a negative position on the subject requires absolutely no work on the writers part, whereas the positive position demands production of evidence that you deny--evidence that may be hidden on page two of Googles search results.
Taiwanese professor says Wuhan coronavirus likely man-made | Taiwan News | 2020-02-24 16:18:00
National Taiwan University professor says Wuhan coronavirus could be synthetic | 2020-02-24 16:18:00www.taiwannews.com.tw
"At a seminar on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) hosted by the Taiwan Public Health Association at NTU, Fang Chi-tai , a professor at NTU's College of Public Health, addressed the many theories circulating that the virus somehow leaked... The professor said that viruses normally only have small mutations in the form of singular changes in natural conditions. He asserted that in nature, it is 'unlikely to have four amino acids added at once.'
Fang concluded, "Therefore, from an academic point of view, it is indeed possible that the amino acids were added to COVID-19 in the lab by humans." He said that it is also still possible that this occurred in nature but that "the chances are very slim."
His primary expertise is NOT Corona viruses. 3/88 publications on SARS and flu.
More into bacterial infections (Strep and Tuberculosis) and HIV for most his publications.
Looks more like practical healthcare studies expert than in depth researcher.
Probably the interface guy between virus research eggheads and regular hospital doctors...a new applications expert with research on transferring new discoveries to practical use. So he probably gets shown real virus images and briefing regularly to stay informed on upcoming possibilities, even if doing new virus research is not his main focus.
So trained to understand virus science with some corona virus family experience, but probably not top expert.
maybe China shot all of them in cover up?
(Opportunistic political humor at Chinese expense. Hopefully without more than the tinest grain of truth. More hopefully China just selected this guy as the best trained spokesman who was not actually needed to do the real expert grunt work with COV-19 .)
The article says: ”Previous research has found that coronaviruses don't survive long on objects such as letters and packages.”
But viruses, according to many scholarly definitions, are non-living organisms that replicate inside living cells. A non-living organism can’t be killed., though they can be stopped from replicating. That’s part of the problem with viruses and why the diseases they cause can’t easily be treated.. It’s a completey different process from killing a bacterial infection. Bacteria are living organisms that can be killed.. As example, tuberculosis is caused by a bacteria. Small pox, measles, mumps, chicken pox, herpes, AIDS, and shingles are some diseases that are caused by [non-living] viruses. Viral diseases are difficult or impossible to treat effectively. They can be prevented, however, by a vaccine.
”Viruses are not made out of cells, they can't keep themselves in a stable state, they don't grow, and they can't make their own energy. Even though they definitely replicate and adapt to their environment, viruses are more like androids than real living organisms.”
”Are viruses dead or alive? (article) | Cells | Khan Academy
www.khanacademy.org
There's plenty of nonsense about the coronavirus online. Here are some of the biggest COVID-19 myths out there and the science to explain why they aren't true.
12 Coronavirus myths busted by science : Read more
Puzzled by the statement that face masks do not help prevent one catching the virus. If they catch droplets from a carrier then they are preventing the droplets from reaching other people. That the masks do not filter out virus sized particles is not relevant - there is no evidence that carriers exhale free virus particles, but plenty that the are contained in droplets and that these droplets may be inhaled by others as well as landing on surfaces. Close proximity is a big problem.
This article is shockingly ignorant and little more than an ad on one point: the use of ascorbate. Even on the face of it it's bogus: "C doesn't prevent colds, but does make the symptoms less". Take more and they go away entirely. Take enough and you won't get a cold. A very old flaw in a very old test is responsible for this myth [1]
If you take the time to look at how they were able to control the virus in about 30 days you'll see the use of IV ascorbate was used. Nobody who got this died. [2]
This matched the results Paul Marik, director of Medicine at Norfolk Hospital found: his use of this took down the rate of death from ICU sepsis from 50% to zero. [3]
Please stop spreading dangerous misinformation.
"Klenner's paper (Klenner FR. The treatment of poliomyelitis and other virus diseases with vitamin C. J. South. Med. and Surg., 111:210-214, 1949.) on curing 60 cases of polio in the epidemic of 1948 should have changed the way infectious diseases were treated but it did not." - Robert Cathcart "
References:
[1] Linus Pauling was right all along. A doctor's opinion https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/12154
[2] Comprehensive treatment and management of corona virus disease 2019: expert consensus statement from Shanghai Shanghai Clinical Treatment Expert Group for corona virus disease 2019
Published 2020-03-01
Cite as Chin J Infect Dis, 2020,38:Epub ahead of print. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1000-6680.2020.0016
Original (Chinese) can be found at http://rs.yiigle.com/yufabiao/1183266.htm
[3]
Marik 2018: Vitamin C for the treatment of sepsis: The scientific rationale
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163725818300706
Interview: The Marik Protocol for Deadly Sepsis Is Already Saving Many Lives: The Roles of Vitamins C and B1 (Thiamine) - An Interview with Dr. Paul E. Marik, MD, FCCP, FCM, MBBCH
https://wholefoodsmagazine.com/colu...ives-the-roles-of-vitamins-c-and-b1-thiamine/
Talk: The Cure for Sepsis with Paul Marik (35 mins)
https://www.criticalcarereviews.com...2017/2896-the-cure-for-sepsis-with-paul-marik
Masks work. Article says masks won't stop the virus, but then says masks will stop sick people from spreading the virus to others. Just pretend the sick person's mask is on your face and that the mask is stopping droplets from the sick person from reaching you. See, masks work. Maybe not perfectly, or as much as people would hope, but they work.
First its a generally harmless idea as a booster treatment. Secondly many people are not getting proper levels of vitamins for their genetics. Some people have undetected genetic weakness for absorbing certain vitamins that is they need extra intake to reach levels normal people attain on minimum recommended levels.
However for general application as a "miracle cure all", any studies I have even glanced at are horribly and obviously flawed to where even if there is a "hidden truth" - it remains hidden. Even Nobel Prize winners can have unreasonable personal biases at times to where they cannot get beyond intuition.
Honestly pioneers of new scientific areas seldom have great insight into the applications of that work for decades ...assuming they continue to research heavily. Pauline's life as a researcher was greatly disrupted by his new celebrity and his vitamin C claims were not based on completion of significant later discoveries. So his Nobel work does not make Pauline more than a well educated testimonial and that education is somewhat peripheral to the topic. Sort of like 1960s era Indianapolis car race winners commenting on Telsa latest vehicle. Yes they are expert in general subject area but...not in really expert in specialty area because of lack of participation.
Not saying the idea is wrong - just not proven anywhere near scientific standards.
Too much hand picked data and constantly varied treatment as a starting point. And models to back such data are still not to where they give solid explanation of data. The megavitanim claims are mostly of the class of thinking that "more is always better up to the point it poisons you (and sometimes even then if you can recover)."
There's plenty of nonsense about the coronavirus online. Here are some of the biggest COVID-19 myths out there and the science to explain why they aren't true.
12 Coronavirus myths busted by science : Read more
Vaccines prevent deaths, they don't cause them! We need medicine to help those with severe cases. Also, just because one baby got better without medicine we can't declare that there is no need for one.Honestly, I don't think we need a vaccine. Vaccines, will cause more deaths, and make them more able to get sick from Coronavirus.
If a seventeen day old baby who didn't have "medicine" to help her get better, then we really don't need medicine.
And second, heart disease is more deadly than coronavirus.