'Don’t ever, ever underestimate the potential of the pandemic': 5 reasons scientists say you should be afraid of COVID-19 No. 1: There is no vaccine.
Panicking about COVID-19 won’t help you get through the pandemic, health professionals say. And neither will treating the novel coronavirus, a highly unpredictable disease for which there is no 100% successful therapeutic treatment, with anything less than extreme caution.President Trump was released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday and, upon his release, told the nation, “Don’t be afraid of it.
Governments around the world are struggling to stop the spread of the pandemic. The “Spanish flu” from 1918 to 1919 and Black Death from 1347 to 1351 were two of the most extreme pandemics ever recorded. However, Fauci said the best-case scenario for a COVID-19 vaccine, based on other vaccines for various diseases, would be 70% to 75% effective.
This is all the more necessary as children go back to school. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggests that children can spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, even if they never develop symptoms or long after symptoms have cleared. What’s more, “inflammation in older people can be more intense, causing organ damage,” Johns Hopkins University reported. “Lung tissue becomes less elastic over time, making respiratory diseases like COVID-19 a particular concern for older people,” the university said.
“I’ve never seen a single virus — that is, one pathogen — have a range where 20% to 40% of the people have no symptoms,” Fauci said during a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic.
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