Re: Will Oregon wimp out & buy out?
Originally Posted by
IndyBison
It's a novel virus. That means it didn't exist in any form before this in humans. That makes it very different from the flu, SARS, MERS, recent H1N1, etc. I tried to find information about the most recent novel virus in the US and the most recent I could find was 1918. If there are others I'm not aware. That's because like everyone else here, I'm not an expert at virology!
Here are some of the things we do know:
There is no vaccine and no confirmed treatment.
Our bodies have no existing defenses to fight it
It's more contagious than any other virus (partially because nobody has antibodies to fight it when it comes in contact)
It is significantly more deadly than the flu virus (likely 0.6% to 1.5% compared to 0 1%)
These are facts not opinion. If you don't feel these are facts then you won't agree with anything that is or has been done by federal, state and local government officials. It's possible we've overdone it and other approaches may have worked or will work in the future. But this virus is very different than anything we've dealt with in our lifetime.
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Depends what you mean exactly by contagious. The R0 certainly isn’t higher than measles, for example, but that assumes a defenseless population, and we certainly have substantial defenses against measles.
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