Re:Our Immune System
by simonh on Saturday November 21, 2020 @06:53AM
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How can there be nothing wrong with an article containing contradictions? ;)
Those aren’t contradictory though. It’s not the 99.9% of the virus that your immune system neutralised that kills a patient with severe COVID-19, it’s the other 0.1%. Deadlier than some strains of flu doesn’t mean deadlier than all strains of the flu.
Re:Our Immune System
by labawi on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:58AM
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AFAIU (not a doctor): Usually it is not the 0.1% of virus that kills severe covid patients, but the massive carnage and collateral damage from a prolonged battle of an inappropriate immune response (imprecise, slow, escalating..).
Those aren’t contradictory though. It’s not the 99.9% of the virus that your immune system neutralised that kills a patient with severe COVID-19, it’s the other 0.1%. Deadlier than some strains of flu doesn’t mean deadlier than all strains of the flu.