I can remember when it was called a cold. If it was intended as a bio-weapon, it's a total failure - absolutely useless as one. Given its ability to paralyze the entire population of China, the Chinese government is a much more effective bio-weapon than the so-called Covid-19.
Of the first 99 confirmed cases of this at the epicenter Wuhan General Hospital overall mortality rate was 11%. This was with extraordinary interventions including ventilation and ECMO
https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673620302117.pdfThe disease is also extremely contagious. We don’t know for sure how long this can survive on surfaces but members of the Coronavirus family have been shown to survive anywhere from a week in the case of SARS to a month in the case of some known animal Coronaviruses.
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-shows-just-how-long-coronaviruses-can-stick-around-on-a-surface/ampHigh infectivity asymptotic spread and survival from days to weeks on surfaces likely mean this disease is utterly uncontainable and will become established in the human population like the influenza virus.
Hopefully one of the following is true.
A) The disease is not as severe globally as initial reports out of China indicate. This might be possible if that small study on ACE2 receptors is accurate or if there are massive numbers of asymptotic infections where people don’t get sick.
Or
B) The initial quarantine measures slow this down enough to develop some effective treatments for it before it gets everywhere.
Most people with cold or flu-like sypmtoms don't even go to the hospital let alone get admitted to a hospital specializing in infectious disease at the onset of their illness. The first people to be involved in the study were already very ill - in fact, the first fatality in this study had already had fever and dyspnoea for 7 days prior to going to the hospital. While the study is useful, we can't draw conclusions about the mortality rate of this disease based on this study alone.
The reason I replied to this thread was to answer the question "
Is the Corona Virus A Bioweapon?" and I still maintain that it is utterly useless as a bio-weapon.
It's just a cold.
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