When apathy is deadlier than COVID-19doi:10.1038/s43587-021-00030-wCatherine StrattonLene AndersenLaurie ProulxEmily SirotichNature Aging
How does COVID-19 compare to other diseases? A different form of this new virus caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a far deadlier infection, in 2003. About 10 percent of SARS patients died. Influenza is a different virus family. Some forms of the flu are deadlier than others...
A different form of this new virus caused severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS), a far deadlier infection, in2003. About 10 percent of SARS patients died.That death rate is far lower than what has been calculated so far for COVID-19. Millions of people get the flu every year around ...
Current COVID-19 vaccines are based on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which the virus uses to bind to and infect host cells, of the original Wuhan-hu-1. But the emerging “variants of concern”—deemed so because they appear to be more transmissible or deadlier than the wild-type SARS-...
Indeed, the coronavirus is "possibly 10 times or more" deadlier than most flu strains, but it often doesn't kill too quickly. "The main purpose of that virus is to keep you alive," stressed Dr. Gulick. "If it kills you quickly, it loses its hosts." As of Jan. 11, 2021, ...
Pandemics usually happen when a virus such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 starts infecting people for the first time. New viruses can spread and infect you more easily than those that have been around before. That's because you don't have any immunity against them. You usually won...
The same precautions recommended to stop the spread of COVID-19, including social distancing, washing hands frequently, wearing a face mask in public, and staying home when feeling sick help stop the spread of colds and the flu, too.Back...
Update: Many so-called “vegans” are now pointing out that they think that CoViD-19 v@((ines will be “vegan” because those v@((ines are not going to be tested on nonhumans. But that is a misconception:“Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates”...
"We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and we know that it is deadly, 10 times deadlier than the 2009 flu pandemic," he said. WHO says 18,500 people died of "swine flu", or H1N1, which was first uncovered in Mexico and the United States in March 2009, but the Lancet medical estima...
But on March 3, before the rapid spread of cases prompted lockdowns around the U.S., the World Health Organization's director-general reported that "globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died," and "by comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those i...