“Preparedness of the 2019-nCoV outbreak”
It does not sound good, at all. Since the airport tests of victims may be asymptomatic, the US and all other airports receiving Chinese point of origin mean the infections may be planted.
The US is up to five known cases. Very bad.
This is an interesting post from a scientist. He wasn’t bringing it up to talk about the cytokine storm part of the Spanish flu...but the pregnant women issue
Kristian Harstad
@KristianHarstad
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In the 1918 #flu #pandemic, pregnant women and otherwise healthy adults died at a very high rate, accounting for a large number of deaths. We still don’t understand why this was the case.
What if that atypical #mortality pattern happens again?
#CoronaVirus #CoronaOutbreak
Kristian Harstad
@KristianHarstad
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@marktsafc
Don’t patronise me, I am a Cambridge educated scientist. I am well aware of what a cytokine storm is, but that is only proposed as a possible mechanism for death from the 1918 flu generally and does not explain the severe mortality in pregnant women etc. Get your facts right