Re:First U.S. Covid deaths came earlier than previously thought
by bradydjohnson on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:35PM
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Erm, your first thought is way off.
Streptococcus pneumoniae is actually the #1 cause of pneumonia. Streptococcus agalactiae also commonly causes pneumonia in infants.
Re:First U.S. Covid deaths came earlier than previously thought
by criticaltinker on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:14AM
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> COVID was doubling roughly every 5 days
Can you provide any citation or reference on this claim? 5 days sounds about right to me, but I'm not yet aware of any literature supporting that number so I would be grateful to learn more.
Re:First U.S. Covid deaths came earlier than previously thought
by jjeaff on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:13PM
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I can't find any mention of RSV causing loss of smell or taste. In fact, it seems that a lot of information out there indicates that loss of taste or smell is sort of a hallmark of vivid as it is not something that happens with other viruses. Is loss of taste or smell actually rather common?
People don't really understand exponential growth or probabilities. If you were sick with a respiratory virus in Jan 2020, it was almost certainly cold, flu, or RSV. If you were sick with a respiratory virus in Jan 2021, it was almost certainly either a cold or COVID. COVID was doubling roughly every 5 days from a zoonosis in late October 2019, so by Jan 2020 we'd expect about 2^12 = 4096 cases worldwide = 1 in a million odds. But it spreads more readily than flu and RSV, so the countermeasures we put in place to stop COVID basically completed halted flu/RSV transmission over 2020.