Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi...
by treis on Sunday March 15, 2020 @05:03PM
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>t's estimated that as many as 20% of the infected are asymptomatic, including no fever. A lot of your suggestions would fail to contain the virus.
We don't need to stop 100% of the transmissions. Right now, on average, an infected person will pass it on to 2-3 people. The goal is to get that to below 1 and eventually it will fizzle out.
I'm not quite sure what's so controversial about my post. It's what countries in Asia have done and they've all contained the spread.
We don't need to stop 100% of the transmissions. Right now, on average, an infected person will pass it on to 2-3 people. The goal is to get that to below 1 and eventually it will fizzle out.
I'm not quite sure what's so controversial about my post. It's what countries in Asia have done and they've all contained the spread.