NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.

Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by bsder on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:27PM (#27521738)

> I think we in the general public have a tendency to underestimate just how bad the flu is.

Holy hell this.

I wanted to punch people who were saying "Covid is just like a bad flu."

I've had bad flus. "I would kill myself but I can't get out of bed to do it" is something that goes through your mind.

Anyone who dismisses something as "just a bad flu" should get infected with flu for the next 10 flu seasons. That would teach them.

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by nradov on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:23PM (#27524185)

From a symptoms and virology standpoint, COVID-19 is closer to being like a really really bad cold. Several of the people I know who had it literally used those words to describe their experience. Several other endemic human coronaviruses also cause colds.

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by mattzito on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:02PM (#27524420)

But surely, the hundreds of thousands of dead in the US alone, millions worldwide, would suggest that while for many people it is a really really bad cold, for others it is far worse than the flu?

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by nradov on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:56PM (#27524734)

You're missing the point. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is almost completely different from the influenza virus. It's structurally much closer to at least some cold viruses. In particular it's very similar to HCoV-OC43 which causes colds and frequently kills patients who are in poor health to start with.

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