The devious coronavirus is exploiting our species.
Our propensity to gather has enabled the contagious virus — which can produce no symptoms for days — to easily travel from person to person. We’ve gifted the bug something it doesn’t naturally have.
“It has legs,” said Mark Cameron, an immunologist at Case Western Reserve University. “It has legs and wings.”
The new coronavirus — resulting in the respiratory disease COVID-19, which is 10 times more lethal than the flu — is now a global pandemic, though it’s people over 60 who are most vulnerableAnd it’s just getting started.
Unlike some scary infectious diseases, like SARS, MERS, or Ebola, this new coronavirus doesn’t take people out quickly. In fact, around 80 percent of us only experience mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. People might not even know they’re sick for some five days. “That person is flying, walking, and interacting,” said Cameron, one of the scientists who contained the 2003 SARS outbreak in Canada. “They’re spreading the virus without realizing they’re sick.” Read more…
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