Re:'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and...
by rustybelt on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:20PM
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With the death rate is so slow for large portions of the population, the vaccine will have basically no margin for error. How do you convince parents to vaccinate kids for a disease that has say a .001% fatality rate for those under 17 unless the vaccine is even safer?
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Re:'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and...
by tpnCC on Saturday May 09, 2020 @04:27PM
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The complete details on the pathophysiology of the disease are far from known yet.
For instance
"The death of a five-year-old boy in New York of inflammatory complications possibly linked to Covid-19 has prompted Andrew Cuomo, the state’s governor, to warn of “an entirely different chapter” of a disease that had been believed to cause only mild symptoms in children."
"Cuomo later tweeted that there have been 73 reported cases in New York of children falling severely ill with a toxic shock-like reaction that displays symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/09/children-coron...
Re:'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and...
by pvaldes on Saturday May 09, 2020 @08:00PM
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In the same hospital?
Re:'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and...
by javagram on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:37PM
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Their kids likely have grandparents.
Re:'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and...
by Kaze404 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:57PM
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I think it's safe to say that most people won't need to be convinced.
Re:'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and...
by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:27PM
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The same way you convince them to get a flu or chickenpox vaccine. Most people won't mind, and "most people" is enough for effective containment of diseases less contagious than measles.