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Seth Meyers via Webcam: Trump Wants to Reopen America as Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerates

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Renaissance_Man3/25/2020 8:31:10 pm PDT

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SARS is an airborne virus that is more lethal than Covid-19. In 2003, there were 8096 cases and 774 deaths, in 29 countries. How did they manage to bring it under control and prevent it from becoming a pandemic?

The answer is that SARS is much more virulent and produces symptoms quicker, meaning that cases were easier to identify and isolate quickly. SARS also produced symptoms in most people who had it. Covid is more dangerous because it spreads more effectively with a long asymptomatic period, and many spreaders don’t even know they have it.