This is probably a really daft question - apologies if it is. I wondered if anyone who knows about virus transmission could answer it:
Every year we have loads of different viruses doing the rounds - colds, flu, norovirus (my personal nemesis. Oh how I hate norovirus season). Some people get sick with them. Some years it’s a lot worse than others for certain viruses. Let’s use flu as an example: so, a strain of flu starts doing the rounds in December. Loads of people get it over the next couple of months. And then it just...goes away.
Where does it go to and what makes it recede? Is the weather a factor? Or does it go because enough people have caught it that most people are then immune to it? Or is there another reason? I know that they never entirely go away (you can catch noro in summer but it’s far far less likely) But they recede massively.
Would that happen with Covid 19? Could it possibly disappear(ish) from the U.K. after a few months or is it going to be making a lot of us ill all the way through until we have a vaccine because not enough of us are immune?
Yes, I know that flu is not the same before anyone says - I was just using flu as an example of how most viruses seem to behave.
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Probably v stupid question about virus transmission
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Broadwayb · 03/05/2020 15:06
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