Comments on: Coronavirus Update II https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/03/coronavirus-update-ii Safeguarding Humanity Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:09:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Eric Klien https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/03/coronavirus-update-ii#comment-401776 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:30:59 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=103331#comment-401776 In reply to Dr. Paul J. Werbos.

“But then it says the two versions are different enough that one can catch both” Our guess is that you can only get both if you are infected by both at the same time (or before one has time to give you immunity to the other).

]]> By: Dr. Paul J. Werbos https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/03/coronavirus-update-ii#comment-401761 Sun, 08 Mar 2020 14:10:08 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=103331#comment-401761 Actually, my wife ( who once led a research group in related areas) and I discussed the evolution of the virus just yesterday. If it is evolving fast enough to less lethality, that argues for us to withdraw in the less safe present period. If not, if we expect to get it sooner or later anyway, so why not get it over with sooner near home and a little younger? In the US, it is hard to see much selective pressure on it for less lethality.

Your information from China seems to reverse that impression, arguing at first for strong selection in China. Will a new less lethal version spread from China to US and swamp out the older more dangerous version here now? But then it says the two versions are different enough that one can catch both, that both can spread here, which would put us back in square one, almost like the Russians I saw on France24 simply enjoying their vacation in Milan.

Curious that I don’t see much advice on how to prepare at home to live through the disease. I have advised old ‘friends to use an incentive spirometer now to build up lungs.

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