Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co...
by cm2187 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:42PM
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Also treatments evolve. We were told that ventilators were absolute critical and it appears now that there may better solutions [1]. My point is you can’t enforce a single truth on a topic like that where our understanding of the virus and what to do is changing. And this understanding drives policy.
[1] https://news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-hospital-cuts-cov...
Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co...
by marcinzm on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:02PM
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>Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days.
That assumes China is finding almost all cases and is able to track almost all cases. If they only report cases that are serious enough to require medical attention that statement is worthless. Of course, that line of thinking would require questioning China's data which the WHO would never politically do.
> First, COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza, from the data we have so far.
> With influenza, people who are infected but not yet sick are major drivers of transmission, which does not appear to be the case for COVID-19.
> Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days.
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...
Also for a long time the medias were quoting 5-10% death rates when we have now evidence that it will be well under 1%, which infectious disease specialists were saying all along.