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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by thorwasdfasdf on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:54PM (#22549056)
with everyone washing their hands like crazy now, I wonder what the percentage of normal/everyday colds/flus will be like this year, vs other years.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by pixl97 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:19PM (#22550039)
It has already been a bad flu season and it naturally starts to taper off this time of year.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by baq on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:27PM (#22551490)
There’s some evidence that some of the ‘bad flu’ cases were actually covid-19, present in both the US and Italy as far back as November. Just ask if these bad flu people regained their fitness.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by 9HZZRfNlpR on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:51PM (#22551663)
November? That's a long time ago, please give me more info on that.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by baq on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:12AM (#22555566)
see my comment above for a bioinformatics approach and apparently the CDC now someeewhat agrees, though i know neither the guy on the video nor the source (not US citizen): https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/12379747999990620...
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by flukus on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:51PM (#22552402)
It takes about 10 weeks to go from 100 infections to half a million, if those flu cases were covid-19 the world would be in dire straits by now.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by tn890 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:15AM (#22554534)
>some evidence

Well, don't be afraid to share it with the world, if such evidence does exist.

I highly doubt it though.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by baq on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:40AM (#22554628)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25723

was on mobile yesterday, sorry for not providing sources

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by dirtyid on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:28PM (#22551500)
The This Week in Virology podcast was discussing some anecdotal stats from doctors HK who reported lower incidents in many common seasonal disease due to better hygiene. I don't believe they have population wide compulsory quarantine, so it might just be a case of mask usage + hand washing. Would be interesting if on the whole, less people died this year due to elevated vigilance as side affect of corona response.
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