Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by cocoggu on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @12:11AM
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In my opinion, this is really the main reason why this virus is spreading globally. In fact, the average incubation period seems to be 5 days, which is already a lot.
But apparently, some subjects had an incubation period up to 24 days, if correct, this is huge and the main reason why it suddenly raised in Italy.
Imagine only one relatively social person in Italy, in 24 days he/she can probably meet at least 50 person directly and much much more if he/she goes to some public activities. Like SARS, it just need a few super-spreaders who aren't even aware of being sick, to start an epidemic.
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Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by jopsen on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:31AM
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Risk of infecting others when you're without symptoms is supposedly small..
I'm by no means an expert, but to me the problem seems to be lack of proactive social distancing; and lack of proactive testing of everyone with symptoms.
Current guidelines seems statistically sound, it's just that we have little mitigation for the few that do slip through.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by notaki on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:36PM
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"People who contract the novel coronavirus emit high amounts of virus very early on in their infection, according to a new study from Germany that helps to explain the rapid and efficient way in which the virus has spread around the world."
"The researchers found very high levels of virus emitted from the throat of patients from the earliest point in their illness —when people are generally still going about their daily routines"
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-...