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Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming by mrfusion on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:17AM (#22646634)
You’d think mild cases wouldn’t have the same viral load as the severe cases. Even if you’re technology contagious it may be less for the mild cases.

Especially asymtomatic. You’d not be coughing or sneezing more than usual which must have some effect.

Just a thought. No one seems to have mentioned this idea.

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Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming by mynegation on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:30AM (#22647195)
What is this idea exactly? That the virus rolled through Seattle and other areas with just a bunch of relatively mild cases and without a critical uptick in hospital load? I am not an epidemiologist but that does not seem realistic.
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