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Originally Posted by seanile
my very smart cousin is working on a PhD in virology and had this to say,
"Average of between 2-3% is actually quite high for a virus that spreads this well and has no vaccine/therapeutics. If our entire country were to get infected, 7 million people would die if these numbers held true. However, we are in a very good position now, which is why I’m not concerned at all. This virus is not going to wipe out the world or even close to that. A gain of function mutation, however, would be bad. And this is always possible with multiple passages of virus progeny through populations."
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Yeah I was listening to NPR on my working commute today and one of the experts said that most believe that the virus was just what the market needed as an excuse to reel it in to a more realistic level. I guess they all saw this latest fall in points as inevitable with or without the virus.