Re:Coronavirus and Credibility
by belltaco on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:29AM
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>Every cold and flu grow exponentially.
No, that's true only if it's brand new. Immunity for a certain strain lasts several years, which means there's a level of herd immunity that constraints infection from even reaching some of the non-immune folks, hence it's hard for it to be exponential.
This is not the case with the 'novel' coronavirus. There is no large scale immunity among the population.
No, that's true only if it's brand new. Immunity for a certain strain lasts several years, which means there's a level of herd immunity that constraints infection from even reaching some of the non-immune folks, hence it's hard for it to be exponential.
This is not the case with the 'novel' coronavirus. There is no large scale immunity among the population.