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The false promise of natural herd immunity for COVID-19. Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”. A City in Brazil’s Amazon Rain Forest Is a Stark Warning about COVID to the Rest of the World Manaus and cities like it will continue to generate dangerous viral variants if vaccination campaigns are not expanded to broadly reach all nations, rich or poor Many researchers say pursuing herd immunity is a bad idea. “Attempting to reach herd immunity via targeted infections is simply ludicrous,” Andersen says. “In the US, probably one to two million people would die.” Nature Magazine
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This is from the beginning of the vaccine campaign. It should make you wonder what these ladies understood that you don't. From The Wire: "Two women under 65 tried to sneak into a COVID-19 vaccination site in Florida this week by dressing as elderly ladies in an effort to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Orange County, Fla. health administrator Raul Pino told the New York Times that the women, aged 34 and 44, showed up to a vaccination site “dressed up as grannies” and wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses. Pino said they even came with valid CDC cards with fake birthdays certifying they’d gotten a first dose of the vaccine — meaning that, somehow, their getups fooled officials once already to get them partially inoculated against the virus." Only in Florida...
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This is from the beginning of the vaccine campaign. It should make you wonder what these ladies understood that you don't. From The Wire: "Two women under 65 tried to sneak into a COVID-19 vaccination site in Florida this week by dressing as elderly ladies in an effort to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Orange County, Fla. health administrator Raul Pino told the New York Times that the women, aged 34 and 44, showed up to a vaccination site “dressed up as grannies” and wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses. Pino said they even came with valid CDC cards with fake birthdays certifying they’d gotten a first dose of the vaccine — meaning that, somehow, their getups fooled officials once already to get them partially inoculated against the virus." Only in Florida...
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"It goes through the air," Mr Trump told the author on 7 February. "That's always tougher than the touch. You don't have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. "And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flus." From BBC News "Former President Donald Trump on Monday encouraged his supporters to get vaccinated but said he did not understand why Republicans were more skeptical of the shot—even as he again floated a conspiracy theory about Pfizer. Trump—who previously expressed skepticism about vaccines in general—said he doesn’t know why Republicans are hesitant to get inoculated, saying “I don’t know what that is exactly.” “I encourage people to take it, I do,” Trump said of Covid-19 vaccines, adding that he was immunized. Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump received the vaccine in January behind closed doors, unlike Joe Biden and other former presidents." From Forbes
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This is from the beginning of the vaccine campaign. It should make you wonder what these ladies understood that you don't. From The Wire: "Two women under 65 tried to sneak into a COVID-19 vaccination site in Florida this week by dressing as elderly ladies in an effort to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Orange County, Fla. health administrator Raul Pino told the New York Times that the women, aged 34 and 44, showed up to a vaccination site “dressed up as grannies” and wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses. Pino said they even came with valid CDC cards with fake birthdays certifying they’d gotten a first dose of the vaccine — meaning that, somehow, their getups fooled officials once already to get them partially inoculated against the virus." Only in Florida...
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@Danage "After a second devastating COVID-19 wave, India experienced a sharp decline in the number of COVID-19 cases in many regions, some of them promoting Ivermectin use. However, no evidence suggests that Ivermectin recommendations are behind the drop in COVID-19 cases. Instead, this decline likely results from a high level of immunity among the population due to previous infections and COVID-19 vaccines, combined with control measures such as lockdowns. Public health agencies, including the Indian Council of Medical Research discourage Ivermectin use to treat COVID-19, due to the lack of evidence supporting its efficacy for preventing or treating COVID-19. The claim that Uttar Pradesh is now COVID-19 free due to the use of Ivermectin is inaccurate and unsupported by scientific evidence. Uttar Pradesh isn’t entirely free of COVID-19, and comparisons with other states are challenging due to differences in testing capacity. Furthermore, many factors other than Ivermectin use could have influenced the course of the second COVID-19 wave in Uttar Pradesh, including restrictions and immunity from previous infection and vaccination. In addition, the quality of evidence supporting Ivermectin use in COVID-19 patients is very low. For this reason, public health authorities don’t recommend the use of Ivermectin for preventing or treating COVID-19 outside of clinical trials. Given all these uncertainties, we can’t determine whether Ivermectin played any role at all in the decline of COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh." Health Feedback website.
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@baronsamedi4239 The claim that Uttar Pradesh is now COVID-19 free due to the use of Ivermectin is inaccurate and unsupported by scientific evidence. Uttar Pradesh isn’t entirely free of COVID-19, and comparisons with other states are challenging due to differences in testing capacity. Furthermore, many factors other than Ivermectin use could have influenced the course of the second COVID-19 wave in Uttar Pradesh, including restrictions and immunity from previous infection and vaccination.
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@baronsamedi4239 There is literally a Seinfeld episode for every occasion. "Kramer refuses to go to a doctor for a bad cough. He finds a dog named Smuckers who has a cough, and takes him to a veterinarian, since he trusts vets more than doctors. However, his throat is too tender to swallow the medication, and he begins acting like a dog."
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@baronsamedi4239 What is even more amusing is that you fail to mention Manaus, Brazil. The false promise of natural herd immunity for COVID-19. Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”. A City in Brazil’s Amazon Rain Forest Is a Stark Warning about COVID to the Rest of the World. Manaus and cities like it will continue to generate dangerous viral variants if vaccination campaigns are not expanded to broadly reach all nations, rich or poor Many researchers say pursuing herd immunity is a bad idea. “Attempting to reach herd immunity via targeted infections is simply ludicrous,” Andersen says. “In the US, probably one to two million people would die.” Nature Magazine
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No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People This has become a common refrain among the cautious—and it’s wrong. Vaccinated people are not as likely to spread the coronavirus as the unvaccinated. Even in the United States, where more than half of the population is fully vaccinated, the unvaccinated are responsible for the overwhelming majority of transmission. To spread the coronavirus, you have to have the coronavirus. And vaccinated people are far less likely to have the coronavirus—period. Despite concern about waning immunity, vaccines provide the best protection against infection. And if someone isn’t infected, they can’t spread the coronavirus. It’s truly that simple. Additionally, for those instances of a vaccinated person getting a breakthrough case, yes, they can be as infectious as an unvaccinated person. But they are likely contagious for a shorter period of time when compared with the unvaccinated, and they may harbor less infectious virus overall. That’s why getting more people their shots is crucial for controlling the spread of the coronavirus: Every vaccinated person helps limit the virus’s ability to hide, replicate, and propagate. Among the unvaccinated, the virus travels unhindered on a highway with multiple off-ramps and refueling stations. In the vaccinated, it gets lost in a maze of dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs. Every so often, it pieces together an escape route, but in most scenarios, it finds itself cut off, and its journey ends. It can go no further. Everyone knows that the vaccines help protect each individual who gets their shots. But when more people get vaccinated, this helps keep everyone else (including children and others ineligible for vaccination) safe as well. From The Atlantic.
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This is from the beginning of the vaccine campaign. It should make you wonder what these ladies understood that you don't. From The Wire: "Two women under 65 tried to sneak into a COVID-19 vaccination site in Florida this week by dressing as elderly ladies in an effort to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Orange County, Fla. health administrator Raul Pino told the New York Times that the women, aged 34 and 44, showed up to a vaccination site “dressed up as grannies” and wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses. Pino said they even came with valid CDC cards with fake birthdays certifying they’d gotten a first dose of the vaccine — meaning that, somehow, their getups fooled officials once already to get them partially inoculated against the virus." Only in Florida
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Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are suffering the natural consequences of COVID-19. At the rate they are dying, you will be able to hold a reunion in a broom closet. The following names of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers who are no longer with us are from the sorryantivaxxer website. May they rest in peace. Conservative radio hosts: Dick Farrel, Tod Tucker, Jimmy DeYoung, Phil Valentine, Bob Enyart, and Marc Bernier.
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This is from the beginning of the vaccine campaign. It should make you wonder what these ladies understood that you don't. From The Wire: "Two women under 65 tried to sneak into a COVID-19 vaccination site in Florida this week by dressing as elderly ladies in an effort to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Orange County, Fla. health administrator Raul Pino told the New York Times that the women, aged 34 and 44, showed up to a vaccination site “dressed up as grannies” and wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses. Pino said they even came with valid CDC cards with fake birthdays certifying they’d gotten a first dose of the vaccine — meaning that, somehow, their getups fooled officials once already to get them partially inoculated against the virus." Only in Florida...
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A Dozen Misguided Influencers Spread Most of the Anti-Vaccination Content on Social Media. The Disinformation Dozen generates two thirds of anti-vaccination content on Facebook and Twitter
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As a former Trump campaign lawyer, Sidney Powell did more than perhaps anyone to push the big lie that President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in last November’s presidential election was the result of fraud involving Dominion Voting Systems machines. Now, however, lawyers representing her have acknowledged that the “big lie” is, in fact, just that. Arizona Republican ‘audit’ finds even bigger lead for Biden in 2020 election. Hand count of the 2.1m ballots cast in Maricopa county found that Biden actually won 360 more votes over Trump than was reported. A partisan, Republican-instigated review of the 2020 election result in Arizona failed to turn up any evidence of widespread fraud, a major blow to Donald Trump and other conspiracy theorists who celebrated the effort. The investigation, which lasted several months, confirmed that Joe Biden did indeed beat Trump in Maricopa county, the state’s most populous county, Doug Logan, who led the review, told the Arizona senate on Friday. In fact, a hand recount found 99 additional votes for Biden and 261 fewer votes for Trump.
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Society makes rules for all sorts of behaviors. You are seldom free to run around doing whatever you like. Things that are not governed by laws are limited by social norms. It's not illegal to cut into a lineup in the grocery store but it's not illegal. We say please and thank you because it is polite to do so and it's expected of us. We have laws that require us to wear seatbelts because apparently we can't be trusted to make that decision on our own. The rationale for workplace mandates revolves around those large benefits: Even in a country that prioritizes individual freedom as much as the U.S. does, citizens do not have the right to harm their colleagues or their colleagues’ families, friends and communities. One person’s right to a healthy life is greater than another person’s right to a specific job. In 1905, when the Supreme Court ruled against the Massachusetts pastor who did not want to take a smallpox vaccine, Justice John Marshall Harlan explained that the Constitution did not allow Americans always to behave however they chose. “Real liberty for all could not exist,” Harlan wrote in his majority opinion, if people could act “regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
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This is from the beginning of the vaccine campaign. It should make you wonder what these ladies understood that you don't. From The Wire: "Two women under 65 tried to sneak into a COVID-19 vaccination site in Florida this week by dressing as elderly ladies in an effort to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Orange County, Fla. health administrator Raul Pino told the New York Times that the women, aged 34 and 44, showed up to a vaccination site “dressed up as grannies” and wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses. Pino said they even came with valid CDC cards with fake birthdays certifying they’d gotten a first dose of the vaccine — meaning that, somehow, their getups fooled officials once already to get them partially inoculated against the virus." Only in Florida...
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@tamatha1234 Claims that COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental”, have skipped animal testing and have not completed initial research trials are false. CLAIM 1 - “All the vaccines are considered experimental”  According to the post, all vaccines are considered experimental. This is not true – they have all been put through standard safety testing before being rolled out to the public.  CLAIM 2 - “All were allowed to skip animal trials”   Oxford University confirmed the vaccine it created with AstraZeneca has undergone animal trials in the UK, US and Australia. Pfizer and BioNTech released information in Sept. 2020 about the effects of their mRNA vaccine in mice and non-human primates. CLAIM 3 - “None have completed initial research trials”     All four vaccines given emergency authorization in the U.S. and UK have published results from the final phase three trials.  CLAIM 4 - “None will complete a research trial for 2-3 years”   This is not true, and likely stems from misinformation shared elsewhere which equates “estimated study completion dates” on clinical trial websites to the actual end dates of clinical trials.  VERDICT   False. COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. and UK are not experimental and have all completed animal and clinical trials.  From Reuters.
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The false promise of natural herd immunity for COVID-19. Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”. A City in Brazil’s Amazon Rain Forest Is a Stark Warning about COVID to the Rest of the World Manaus and cities like it will continue to generate dangerous viral variants if vaccination campaigns are not expanded to broadly reach all nations, rich or poor Many researchers say pursuing herd immunity is a bad idea. “Attempting to reach herd immunity via targeted infections is simply ludicrous,” Andersen says. “In the US, probably one to two million people would die.” Nature Magazine
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The Nuremberg Code specifically addresses experimentation; COVID-19 vaccines aren’t experimental, and therefore, don’t violate the Code.
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@katekleinsteuber7652 You are referring to safety monitoring, which is standard practice for all new medications.
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This is from the beginning of the vaccine campaign. It should make you wonder what these ladies understood that you don't. From The Wire: "Two women under 65 tried to sneak into a COVID-19 vaccination site in Florida this week by dressing as elderly ladies in an effort to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Orange County, Fla. health administrator Raul Pino told the New York Times that the women, aged 34 and 44, showed up to a vaccination site “dressed up as grannies” and wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses. Pino said they even came with valid CDC cards with fake birthdays certifying they’d gotten a first dose of the vaccine — meaning that, somehow, their getups fooled officials once already to get them partially inoculated against the virus." Only in Florida...
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As a former Trump campaign lawyer, Sidney Powell did more than perhaps anyone to push the big lie that President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in last November’s presidential election was the result of fraud involving Dominion Voting Systems machines. Now, however, lawyers representing her have acknowledged that the “big lie” is, in fact, just that. Arizona Republican ‘audit’ finds even bigger lead for Biden in 2020 election. Hand count of the 2.1m ballots cast in Maricopa county found that Biden actually won 360 more votes over Trump than was reported. A partisan, Republican-instigated review of the 2020 election result in Arizona failed to turn up any evidence of widespread fraud, a major blow to Donald Trump and other conspiracy theorists who celebrated the effort. The investigation, which lasted several months, confirmed that Joe Biden did indeed beat Trump in Maricopa county, the state’s most populous county, Doug Logan, who led the review, told the Arizona senate on Friday. In fact, a hand recount found 99 additional votes for Biden and 261 fewer votes for Trump.
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Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are suffering the natural consequences of COVID-19. At the rate they are dying, you will be able to hold a reunion in a broom closet. The following names of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers who are no longer with us are from the sorryantivaxxer website. May they rest in peace. Conservative radio hosts: Dick Farrel, Tod Tucker, Jimmy DeYoung, Phil Valentine, Bob Enyart, and Marc Bernier. Conservative leaders: Pressley Stutts, Gregg Prentice, and Scot Apley, and reality hosts Dusty and Tristan Graham. Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers: Robert David Steele, Caleb Wallace, Stephen Harmon, Scooter Ward. Jerry Walker, Adam Fry, Ben Garrison, Evelyn Warren, Ron Munoz, Desire Powell, Brad Bolz, Bill Dorsey, Jaysen Lackey, Kristen Lowery, and Veronica Wolski.
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As a former Trump campaign lawyer, Sidney Powell did more than perhaps anyone to push the big lie that President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in last November’s presidential election was the result of fraud involving Dominion Voting Systems machines. Now, however, lawyers representing her have acknowledged that the “big lie” is, in fact, just that. Arizona Republican ‘audit’ finds even bigger lead for Biden in 2020 election. Hand count of the 2.1m ballots cast in Maricopa county found that Biden actually won 360 more votes over Trump than was reported. A partisan, Republican-instigated review of the 2020 election result in Arizona failed to turn up any evidence of widespread fraud, a major blow to Donald Trump and other conspiracy theorists who celebrated the effort. The investigation, which lasted several months, confirmed that Joe Biden did indeed beat Trump in Maricopa county, the state’s most populous county, Doug Logan, who led the review, told the Arizona senate on Friday. In fact, a hand recount found 99 additional votes for Biden and 261 fewer votes for Trump.
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@canadaohcanada7792 That is a compliment coming from a Russian troll.
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Society makes rules for all sorts of behaviors. You are seldom free to run around doing whatever you like. Things that are not governed by laws are limited by social norms. It's not illegal to cut into a lineup in the grocery store but it's not illegal. We say please and thank you because it is polite to do so and it's expected of us. We have laws that require us to wear seatbelts because apparently we can't be trusted to make that decision on our own. The rationale for workplace mandates revolves around those large benefits: Even in a country that prioritizes individual freedom as much as the U.S. does, citizens do not have the right to harm their colleagues or their colleagues’ families, friends and communities. One person’s right to a healthy life is greater than another person’s right to a specific job. In 1905, when the Supreme Court ruled against the Massachusetts pastor who did not want to take a smallpox vaccine, Justice John Marshall Harlan explained that the Constitution did not allow Americans always to behave however they chose. “Real liberty for all could not exist,” Harlan wrote in his majority opinion, if people could act “regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
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As a former Trump campaign lawyer, Sidney Powell did more than perhaps anyone to push the big lie that President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in last November’s presidential election was the result of fraud involving Dominion Voting Systems machines. Now, however, lawyers representing her have acknowledged that the “big lie” is, in fact, just that. Arizona Republican ‘audit’ finds even bigger lead for Biden in 2020 election. Hand count of the 2.1m ballots cast in Maricopa county found that Biden actually won 360 more votes over Trump than was reported. A partisan, Republican-instigated review of the 2020 election result in Arizona failed to turn up any evidence of widespread fraud, a major blow to Donald Trump and other conspiracy theorists who celebrated the effort. The investigation, which lasted several months, confirmed that Joe Biden did indeed beat Trump in Maricopa county, the state’s most populous county, Doug Logan, who led the review, told the Arizona senate on Friday. In fact, a hand recount found 99 additional votes for Biden and 261 fewer votes for Trump.
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This is from the beginning of the vaccine campaign. It should make you wonder what these ladies understood that you don't. From The Wire: "Two women under 65 tried to sneak into a COVID-19 vaccination site in Florida this week by dressing as elderly ladies in an effort to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Orange County, Fla. health administrator Raul Pino told the New York Times that the women, aged 34 and 44, showed up to a vaccination site “dressed up as grannies” and wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses. Pino said they even came with valid CDC cards with fake birthdays certifying they’d gotten a first dose of the vaccine — meaning that, somehow, their getups fooled officials once already to get them partially inoculated against the virus." Only in Florida...
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A Dozen Misguided Influencers Spread Most of the Anti-Vaccination Content on Social Media. The Disinformation Dozen generates two thirds of anti-vaccination content on Facebook and Twitter.
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You are gullible. "In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Recently, the Center for Health Security has received questions about whether that pandemic exercise predicted the current novel coronavirus outbreak in China. To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise. For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019." From Reuters
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The false promise of natural herd immunity for COVID-19. Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”. A City in Brazil’s Amazon Rain Forest Is a Stark Warning about COVID to the Rest of the World Manaus and cities like it will continue to generate dangerous viral variants if vaccination campaigns are not expanded to broadly reach all nations, rich or poor Many researchers say pursuing herd immunity is a bad idea. “Attempting to reach herd immunity via targeted infections is simply ludicrous,” Andersen says. “In the US, probably one to two million people would die.” Nature Magazine
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Further study revealed evidence of blood vessel damage in the penises of the COVID-19 patients, compared to two other men with erectile dysfunction who'd never been infected. Organs that may be affected by COVID-19 include: Heart. Imaging tests taken months after recovery from COVID-19 have shown lasting damage to the heart muscle, even in people who experienced only mild COVID-19 symptoms. This may increase the risk of heart failure or other heart complications in the future. Lungs. The type of pneumonia often associated with COVID-19 can cause long-standing damage to the tiny air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs. The resulting scar tissue can lead to long-term breathing problems. Brain. Even in young people, COVID-19 can cause strokes, seizures and Guillain-Barre syndrome — a condition that causes temporary paralysis. COVID-19 may also increase the risk of developing Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
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Coronavirus vs. Flu Deaths. In the U.S, over 700,000 people have died of COVID-19. The World Health Organization estimates that 290,000 to 650,000 people die of flu-related causes every year worldwide.
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