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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 3336701" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>A conservative physician friend i respect reposted this earlier. I think it gets to some of the misconceptions about comparing this to the flu at this point.</p><p></p><p>I am not panicking, nor trying to be political about any of this, but the 'the flu is worse' stuff is no longer holding true in the same sense that it did weeks ago. I admit that i was shocked yesterday to see a man, likely in the higher risk category, walk out of a restroom in a truck stop in alabama without washing his hands (okay, i was shocked for multiple reasons).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, an <a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/03/a-covid-19-coronavirus-update-from-concerned-physicians.html?fbclid=IwAR11hIJKMxpYx6VPl5EqJmkbRfjBFQ1xj6Nh48M96wPQ3s3Xc8_AcRnnxxg" target="_blank">excerpt</a> . There are graphs and such within the link for those who are interested.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'll also add another article i read pointed out that 1) we have vaccinations for the flu, which always helps mitigate the impact of the flu on our health system and 2) our immune systems are familiar with the flu through years of exposure (both being sick and even when a vaccination didn't seem to work it still gave us exposure). We don't have that at this point for corona virus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 3336701, member: 277"] A conservative physician friend i respect reposted this earlier. I think it gets to some of the misconceptions about comparing this to the flu at this point. I am not panicking, nor trying to be political about any of this, but the 'the flu is worse' stuff is no longer holding true in the same sense that it did weeks ago. I admit that i was shocked yesterday to see a man, likely in the higher risk category, walk out of a restroom in a truck stop in alabama without washing his hands (okay, i was shocked for multiple reasons). Anyway, an [URL='https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/03/a-covid-19-coronavirus-update-from-concerned-physicians.html?fbclid=IwAR11hIJKMxpYx6VPl5EqJmkbRfjBFQ1xj6Nh48M96wPQ3s3Xc8_AcRnnxxg']excerpt[/URL] . There are graphs and such within the link for those who are interested. I'll also add another article i read pointed out that 1) we have vaccinations for the flu, which always helps mitigate the impact of the flu on our health system and 2) our immune systems are familiar with the flu through years of exposure (both being sick and even when a vaccination didn't seem to work it still gave us exposure). We don't have that at this point for corona virus. [/QUOTE]
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