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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by kinkrtyavimoodh on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:51PM (#23288929)
Ebola couldn't be more different from Corona.

Millions of people with Corona are asymptomatic or have mild flu-like symptoms and are therefore easy carriers.

OTOH once you have Ebola symptoms (and that's when you are infectious), you have only a coin's flip chance of surviving it. You can be pretty sure no random guy on the street is giving you Ebola. You can't say the same for Corona.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by lbeltrame on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:40AM (#23290620)
To be honest, the debate is still open on whether the asymptomatic people spread it as much as the people who show symptoms. I haven't been able to find a paper that does not offer more than just circumstantial evidence.
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