Comments by "Reecom98" (@reecom9884) on "New warnings as COVID infections rise in the US" video.

  1. The main source of the corona virus’s spread, the CDC said, is through respiratory droplets from an infected person who coughs sneezes or talks in close proximity to someone else. “COVID-19 spreads mainly through close contact from person to person," Haynes said. "While it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes, this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads." CDC spokesman Benjamin Haynes It’s not on the surface; it’s in the exhaled water vapor that people are breathing out that has the virus. The six feet social distancing is based on the theoretical estimate on how far the contaminated droplet will travel in air. Watch out for people with Hypersalivation, also known as sialorrhea or ptyalism, is when a person has too much saliva in their mouth causing them to spit while talking.
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  2. Whenever a virus infects a host, it makes new copies of itself, and it starts by duplicating its genes. But this process is sloppy, and the duplicates end up with errors; these are called mutations. They’re a normal and usually mundane part of virology. Viruses naturally and gradually accumulate mutations as they spread. The rate of mutations in the Flu virus causes a need for new vaccine every year; you are not protected even if you have anti-bodies from last year’s Flu. Covid-19 mutation rate is one tenth of the yearly Flu virus, but it has spread and infected a larger population. Even if there was a new strain of Covid-19 occurring in 100,000 people, it would take awhile to detect it in the 7 million plus confirm cases. It is estimated that people with Covid-19 anti-bodies might have protection for about a year at best. The strains of Covid-19 could have different symptoms and effective people differently. Every continent in the world except the Antarctic has been infected by the Covid-19 virus from a “Wet Market” (live wild animal market in China). The virus has infected millions of people in the world in less then six months, spreading from a poor worker in China to the PM of the UK and the Queen of England’s husband, Prince Philip and killed a teenage boy living in a remote tribe in the Amazon jungle. Trump in January 2020; “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.” Since January 2020 to June 2020 there have been over 119,000 deaths in the US.
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