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Dr. Mark Kortepeter, who has been concerned in the fight against several epidemics, explains why Covid-1nine times are happening in the United States.
After months of maintaining a plateau, Covid-1nine’s new times are skyrocking in some states: Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida, to name a few. Simply put, we are wasting the war opposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
What’s going on
In an interview for a Reuters article on February 11, 2020, before having Covid-1nine times in the United States, I said that the infections that had happened so far pointed to a “highly communicable agent” in closed environments, and that “the virus is ruthless and can make mistakes in the use of self-protective devices and hand hygiene.
The viral “enemy” and the basics of viral transposition have not been replaced since then and the design in new infections is never very surprising. States that reveled in ignored the difficulty or had more competitive reopening deadlines are now paying the fee and may have to counteract their openings beyond. The northeastern states that were hit in the first wave are a little more cautious and are seeing a variety of declining or solid cases.
The study of the epidemiology of infectious diseases is never a space science. We may not be able to accurately traverse the diversity of times or deaths that would take up a big block on a given day, however, we are able to identify and expect trends. People, states, and governments forget the intellectual principles of spreading the infection at their own risk. Although the diversity of deaths has declined in the United States as design progresses, it’s no wonder that a death design is soon following. Waiting for this ccorridorenge to disappear is never a plan.
If you drive on the road and a vehicle in front of you stops, you will step on the brakes. If you release the brakes too soon, crash. That’s what’s circulating around the country. As corporations reopen their doors, they have released the brakes. If it happens too fast, a “shock” is inevitable.
Think of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as an alien fighter to take control of your body, as in the film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. A virus has only 1 goal: to reproduce. It is programmed to divert its cells to eliminate offspring, which then infects others. It doesn’t discriminate against who it infects: despite what political party you belong to, what race you are, where you live, what school you went to, what devoted ideals you have, who your parents are, or what language you speak. If you release the brakes, the virus will have the wonderful thing to open a big apple you give it.
I’ve always questioned the secret ingredients of a big apple epidemic. One of them is huguy nature. We give the virus the opportunity to spread in interactions with other people. If you get others, whether for a political demonstration, a demonstration, a drink at the local bar, a party with friends, a nursing home or a meat packaging plant, the virus will exploit all vulnerabilities.
The only genuine thing we’ve been given is our own non-public habit to prevent the virus from entering our bodies. Once inside, we give in to the will of the virus and its fierce combat opposite our immune system. We lose and become the virus sent to reproduce.
This not only takes position with the SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. We see it many times with other infectious ailments: once public fitness measures relax, the pathogen benefits from openness. We see this with measles when vaccination rates are reduced. Infections adhere to a deterioration in public fitness due to war.
Crossing this pandemic and reducing spread are some basic principles:
1) There is nothing like a “safe” or “dangerous” activity.
2) Consider instead that any of the activities you perform may be more or less threatening to you. Assess the threat of large apple activity before doing so and decide whether it is of your best productive interest to participate in this activity and whether there are things you can do to reduce the threat
High-threat activities involve being surrounded by others. The threat increases when indoor activities are carried out, and the more Americans there are, the longer and more congested it becomes a threat. Not dressing up in a mask is more threatening than dressing up in one.
Low-threat activities include being alone, being outdoors, taking social distance, and restricting the diversity of other Americans you’re in direct contact with. Wear a mask when avoiding being around others.
Unfortunately, ignoring the problem, the chances of returning to the “normal” are increasingly reduced and the effects we are looking to avoid (economic damage, disease and death, limited displacement, loss of intellectual and social well-being) will do so. Continue longer than necessary. We are in a position where we see the consequences of design sometimes on Americans’ inability to go to Europe. This will only get worse until we have this virus under control, forcing us to proactively attack the problem, without proceeding to catch up. The virus is going to win.
Clear and simple: those who hitale or forget hitale are doomed to copy it. Everyone can make their component to make a difference by detecting their threat and using the playback station to decrease it.
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I am a doctor, scientist, retired colonel of the army and “Inaspect the Hot Zone”, a complete history of suspicion of infectious diseases and epidemics.
I’m a doctor, scientist, retired Army colonel and editor of “Inaspect the Hot Zone,” a suspense of infectious diseases and epidemic crises that I controlled in the Army Hot Zone Lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland.