Let's remember that during the #pandemic many #scientists made catastrophic #predictions that turned out to be, fortunately, unfounded, but that created serious and uncompensable #psychological damage to a fragile part of the population.
📈😞 4/6
In addition, unnecessary and harmful #lockdowns have impoverished an important part of the population that will not be compensated. 😞
Medical journals should not lend themselves to pressure from groups of scientists acting on the basis of questionable beliefs .. 5/6
..that reduce public confidence in medicine and #science.
The #pandemic must become a topic solely for scientific research, and the rare severe #COVID19 patients who will get sick in the coming years must be properly treated. 🙏
Have a great summer to all of you! 🏖️❤️ 6/6
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A new coronavirus being 20 times more lethal than COVID19? Unlikely. 🤔
During the #WEF in Davos, there was discussion of a potential new #pandemic called #Disease_X that could cause 20 times more deaths than #COVID19. Is this a plausible scenario? Let's examine it.
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As we know, the first circulating variant and subsequent variants proved to be highly pathogenic.
They were characterized by a "spike" protein with high affinity for the human ACE2 receptor, which facilitated coronavirus entry into human cells and determined pathogenic effects.
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Bilateral pneumonia and inflammatory storms were the main causes of #death in patients during the first months of #coronavirus circulation.
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We have two ways to answer this question: the first is the #historical one, i.e. looking at the past and understanding how many years the previous pandemics caused by respiratory #viruses lasted. (1/9)
The available data tell us that all pandemics caused by respiratory #viruses lasted about two years:
-Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu), caused by an #influenza A virus of swine origin, lasted from April 2009 to August 2010.
-Influenza A H3N2 (Hong Kong flu), (2/9)
caused by an influenza A virus that emerged in 1968 and replaced the previous H2N2 #virus, which lasted until 1970.
Influenza A H2N2 (Asian flu), caused by an #influenza A virus that emerged in 1957 and replaced the previous H1N1 virus, which lasted until 1958. (3/9)