CoronaVirus aka SARS is no longer a Chinese problem, in case anybody was wondering.
We have cases in many countries. This is potentially a global pandemic.
The stock market is clearly taking notice.
COVID-19, to be more accurate.
The thing that really troubles me about this is that it lasts SO LONG. Most people who have gotten it are still sick.
In terms of how disruptive it is, then how long people are ill is a big deal.
I haven't read anything clear about that how long people are infectious after they show symptoms...but it's got a 2-week+ incubation period (as long as 24 days) when people are infectious but asymptomatic.
According to this, though, it's currently considered slightly more infectious than the common seasonal flu.
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/20/21143785/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-transmission-how
@tyghebright That 2 week incubation period is the bad aspect.
@tyghebright @gshevlin I really hate that everybody’s calling at coronavirus because and please correct me if I’m wrong isn’t covered 19 just one type of coronavirus wasn’t star is a coronavirus isn’t there another one that we had coming out in the last decade that was also a coronavirus?
I feel like they need to be more accurate with what they call it because the general public is stupid
@tyghebright @gshevlin oh I thought it was COVID-19 from the jump. I’m still seeing main stream media CNN MSNBC etc. etc. ABC News calling it coronavirus and that is why I’m getting annoyed because I feel like there’s a distinction in these viruses all be it perhaps subtle I’m not a virologist so I don’t know but I feel like it’s important to make the distinction
@Evvie @tyghebright @gshevlin Covid19 is the disease. SARS-2 is the Viral Group originating from the SARS Coronai of 2002-2004.
@tyghebright The key question is for how long people remain infectious. For some viral diseases, the person stops being a transmission vector when symptoms peak.