I saw a mention a couple days ago that CNN was reporting younger people hit worse by virus are "smokers/vapers" but haven't been able to find any real evidence. CNN .com now has this article, the main evidence is that "experts" such as Glantz can't resist using this opportunity to take another shot at us:
Covid-19: How smoking, vaping and drug use might increase risks from the novel coronavirus - CNN
Corona is not a bacteria, but according to this video, in the later stages bacteria can come in and cause pneumonia and death:
I also heard that soap helps kill the virus by stripping off its outer protective layer. Seems like PG and even VG, being wetting agents may have some soap properties. I was wondering if vapor might act as a means of transmission, but previous concerns that vapor (or smoke) can transmit diseases have been dismissed.
If
vaping has any benefit though, it would be at strategic moments, and more extensive use might still increase susceptibility, and be bad if you have the virus.
I think we need a little more positive message, this virus CAN be stopped if everyone does their part. The idea we can't is based on ideas like we'd never do quarantines until too late...
This article was the best I've seen that our panic may be excessive, but currently has been removed:
medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894
In it, he discussed per-capita statistics, scroll down a bit to the table:
Coronavirus Update (Live): 316,066 Cases and 13,598 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer
another excerpt, since it is unavailable:
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The World Health Organization (“WHO”)
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The results of their research show that COVID-19 doesn’t spread as easily as we first thought or the media had us believe (
"); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px);">remember people abandoned their dogs out of fear of getting infected). According to their report if you come in contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19 you have a 1–5% chance of catching it as well. The variability is large because the infection is based on the type of contact and how long.
The majority of viral infections come from prolonged exposures in confined spaces with other infected individuals. Person-to-person and surface contact is by far the most common cause. From the WHO report, “When a cluster of several infected people occurred in China, it was most often (78–85%) caused by an infection within the family by droplets and other carriers of infection in close contact with an infected person.
From the
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A growing body of evidence indicates that COVID-19 transmission is facilitated in confined settings; for example, a large cluster (634 confirmed cases) of COVID-19 secondary infections occurred aboard a cruise ship in Japan, representing about one fifth of the persons aboard who were tested for the virus. This finding indicates the high transmissibility of COVID-19 in enclosed spaces
Dr. Paul Auwaerter, the Clinical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine echoes this finding,
“If you have a COVID-19 patient in your household, your risk of developing the infection is about 10%….If you were casually exposed to the virus in the workplace (e.g., you were not locked up in conference room for six hours with someone who was infected [
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According to Dr. Auwaerter, these transmission rates are very similar to the seasonal flu.
Air-based transmission or untraceable community spread is very unlikely. According to WHO’s COVID-19 lead Maria Van Kerkhove, true community based spreading is very rare. The data from China shows that community-based spread was only a very small handful of cases. “This virus is not circulating in the community, even in the highest incidence areas across China,” Van Kerkhove said.
“Transmission by fine aerosols in the air over long distances is not one of the main causes of spread. Most of the 2,055 infected hospital workers were either infected at home or in the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan when hospital safeguards were not raised yet,” she said.
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