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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by hiram112 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:24AM (#22434626)
> If you're patient zero here, you get a comfy private room, your own bed, 5 doctors, 10 nurses, whole research teams, respirators, priority with all the tests, examinations, etc. Same for patient 1, 2, 3.

I read a similar comment from someone on another forum. If you're certain this will end up a pandemic, with almost everyone eventually catching it, your best move is to catch the virus as soon as possible, ensuring you'll get the best care.

Though this assumes you can't get it a second time, after the antibodies are generated. This appears not to be the case with this virus, possibly.

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by sampo on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:38AM (#22434808)
How fast or slow does the virus evolve towards lower mortality? If you get infected months later, is it still essentially the same virus, or a less aggressive strain?
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by obelos on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:02PM (#22435121)
Given the 2-3 week transmissible incubation period where the infected show no symptoms, it doesn't seem like there's short enough feedback loop for the lethality to be tempered through natural selection within the initial period of the outbreak (which we're just beginning).
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by learc83 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:42PM (#22435606)
>Given the 2-3 week transmissible incubation period

No one knows if it's transmissible during the entire incubation period. It's almost certainly not given how other viruses behave. Also the possibility of transmission during asymptomatic periods doesn't mean that it's likely, or that most transmissions happen during that time.

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by obelos on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:12PM (#22437286)
Good points!
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by benibela on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:38PM (#22439148)
There are reports that you can get it a second time, and it is worse on the second time:

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/02/15/hubei-doctors-...

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by charlieflowers on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:58PM (#22437150)
Or, hole up and wait for a vaccine.
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by guneydas on Friday February 28, 2020 @08:49AM (#22442717)
"As of 2020, there is no cure or protective vaccine for SARS that has been shown to be both safe and effective in humans." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
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