I asked renowned microbiologist Dr. Bernhard Kaltenboeck some of my puzzling questions about COVID-19. I am posting his insightful answers
@a_kaltenboeck @peterbachmd @ASlavitt @choo_ek
1. Why the disease is not as deadly in young people. Especially infants and small children?
@a_kaltenboeck @peterbachmd @ASlavitt @choo_ek
1. Why the disease is not as deadly in young people. Especially infants and small children?
2. How is it possible that Wuhan with 11 million people plateaued at 70,000 cases. They couldn’t have isolated all cases and quarantined all the possible contacts so efficiently. Why did the 10.9 million not get it. Any innate immunity ? @nramind @chadinabhan @Rfonsi1
3. Why is the virus so serious in some and asymptomatic or upper respiratory only in most. Genetic predisposition?
4. Why are men more seriously affected than women - hormones at play?
5. Can this whole thing be stopped if everyone wore a mask for a month? @ScottGottliebMD @DrSidMukherjee @PSampathkumarMD @ASlavitt @Rfonsi1 @choo_ek
These graphs make the case. Unfortunately we dont have luxury of time to do a randomized trial. Too much time has been wasted. If we are wrong: We wore masks for no reason. If we are right: Countless lives saved. Problem:shortage of masks; homemade masks ok @Rfonsi1 @jburnmurdoch
Log scale in previous tweet makes increases look smaller. Here is regular linear scale. Thanks to @NialElkim
cc: @Rfonsi1 @DrSidMukherjee
cc: @Rfonsi1 @DrSidMukherjee
More here.
Masks can help: here’s some more data.
