Italian doctors saying Covid is getting less potent!?

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Hopeful link works 🤞
I read this and there is very little detail. I was surprised that it said that the virus is virtually eradicated in Italy.

mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2370OQ?__twitter_impression=true

I keep reading about viral load and it’s confusing me a bit tbh. Someone on here very kindly explained to me that viral load wasn’t an issue regarding transmission - an infective dose is an infective dose - but that article has gotten me musing on it again.

The way I initially understood it (and was corrected on) was that if you were exposed to lots of the virus then it was harder for your system to fight it off because a high viral load would overwhelm your immune system before it had chance to make any antibodies but a small viral load was manageable for most people’s immune systems. I originally came across a discussion where people were theorising why some people were asymptomatic and medics were at higher risk due to repeated exposure to high viral loads.

I wonder if this virus acts like a poison so it is relevant how much exposure you have meaning the wider it’s spread through the population the more exposure any one person is likely to have.

I wouldn’t know whether or not to take that with a pinch of salt. Certainly I’d like it to be true, but would tend to view it with caution.

God I hope so but I'm probably just wishful thinking.

I hope so too...

Will wait to hear more on this,

It would make sense. The Oxford team said they would have trouble testing the vaccine because not enough people were actually catching it... A few other scientists have said it's petering out a bit.

I remain optimistic!

I’ve just posted this exact link in another post it is very positive in my opinion. Maybe it’s mutating and becoming weaker.

I really hope so 🤞🤞

I've been thinking about this. To be a successful virus (and let's face it everything wants to be successful) you need to be easy to transmit but also not kill your host, because a dead host can't transmit. So it would be prudent for a virus that wishes to survive to become less deadly.

It was interesting listening to the CEO of the vaccine company saying they don’t have enough people with the virus to test The vaccine on here.

Viruses often mutate to become less deadly. So it could be a possibility. Positive if true. Let’s hope we hear more about this over the coming weeks.

I so want this to be true... has anyone seen any clinical reports/research to back this up? This would be such a game-changer if proven.

I hope this is true. It tallies up with a discovery in the US www.mirror.co.uk/science/coronavirus-could-getting-weaker-scientists-21981820

This was on Italian news tonight. That the more recent cases seem to be falling less ill with the virus generally speaking.

God I fucking hope so

This would be great if true !!! Also I did hear that they mutate to be weaker

Let’s bloody hope so!

Finger's crossed this turns out to be the case.

That would be fantastic - has anyone authoritative opined (eg Johns Hopkins)?

I wondered this over a week ago. It does seem to be petering out more than I think lock down could account for when people have still being packing into the underground, etc every day.

That would be such good news, I really hope there's something in it.

Interesting. Scientists did say even before our lock down that as it spread and mutated it would weaken, so it seems they had a point.

Aren’t there other virus that have done the same?
Sort of burnt themselves out

It would certainly explain the quick unwinding of lockdown

I often wondered if the common cold was just as lethal in its first round. Another thing I'm wondering is whether we will see a huge decline in norovirus and chicken pox. That said I believe some animals can be norovirus reservoirs so it could be a moot point.

Funny I have been teaching the Black Death in school and it sort of eventually petered out in Europe. Came back sporadically but that was it.

I love reading positive posts like this. I really hope there is something in this