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1 hour ago, BOHICA said:

It’s almost March....  flu season is about over.... another month or 2 and there will be another shiny object for people to chase instead of corona virus

The virus apparently does not thrive in the warm months.

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6 minutes ago, f7ben said:

59 now

I think they are starting to take people off quarantine that had the virus but are cured.  So there is not 59 people with corona virus...  few of those had but no longer have it.

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Just now, BOHICA said:

I think they are starting to take people off quarantine that had the virus but are cured.  So there is not 59 people with corona virus...  few of those had but no longer have it.

That’s possible

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4 minutes ago, f7ben said:

That’s possible

The first one in the US was free from quarantine and the virus almost a week ago.  Don’t think there were any secondary infections from it.  Coming into more UV ray months and some warmth and this thing is done before it really got started.  A bunch of the 59 will be virus free over the next week

https://q13fox.com/2020/02/21/snohomish-county-man-first-in-us-with-coronavirus-is-now-fully-recovered/

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10 minutes ago, ACE said:

Nope. It likes cold dry conditions 

Viruses prefer warm and moist environments. That’s why they replicate so quickly in the nose and sinus cavities. Cold temps do a few things that make contracting a virus easier. Cold temps bring people together in dry and arid conditions. The combination cold outside air and dry indoor make make breathing passages more irritated and more likely to be compromised by a virus. At this stage no one knows how this virus will respond to warm temps. It’s not particularly cold in some regions where the virus is now spreading. 

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3 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

Viruses prefer warm and moist environments. That’s why they replicate so quickly in the nose and sinus cavities. Cold temps do a few things that make contracting a virus easier. Cold temps bring people together in dry and arid conditions. The combination cold outside air and dry indoor make make breathing passages more irritated and more likely to be compromised by a virus. At this stage no one knows how this virus will respond to warm temps. It’s not particularly cold in some regions where the virus is now spreading. 

Flu season is literally when it’s cold out, and dies off as it warms up 

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common flu

 

At least 14,000 people have died and 250,000 have already been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 26 million Americans have fallen ill with flu-like symptoms

 

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7 minutes ago, ACE said:

Will just chalk this up to you being dishonest like usual

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While experts know that cold temperatures and low humidity promote transmission of the flu virus, less is understood about the effect of decreased humidity on the immune system's defenses against flu infection.

The Yale research team, led by Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, explored the question using mice genetically modified to resist viral infection as humans do. The mice were all housed in chambers at the same temperature, but with either low or normal humidity. They were then exposed to the influenza A virus.

The researchers found that low humidity hindered the immune response of the animals in three ways. It prevented cilia, which are hair-like structures in airways cells, from removing viral particles and mucus. It also reduced the ability of airway cells to repair damage caused by the virus in the lungs. The third mechanism involved interferons, or signaling proteins released by virus-infected cells to alert neighboring cells to the viral threat. In the low-humidity environment, this innate immune defense system failed.

The study offers insight into why the flu is more prevalent when the air is dry. "It's well known that where humidity drops, a spike in flu incidence and mortality occurs. If our findings in mice hold up in humans, our study provides a possible mechanism underlying this seasonal nature of flu disease," said Iwasaki.

While the researchers emphasized that humidity is not the only factor in flu outbreaks, it is an important one that should be considered during the winter season. Increasing water vapor in the air with humidifiers at home, school, work, and even hospital environments is a potential strategy to reduce flu symptoms and speed recovery, they said.

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Other authors are Eriko Kudo, Eric Song, Laura Yockey, Tasfia Rakib, Patrick Wong, and Robert Homer.

This work was supported in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a gift from the Condair Group, the Naito Foundation, and National Institutes of Health grants.

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1 minute ago, spin_dry said:

While experts know that cold temperatures and low humidity promote transmission of the flu virus, less is understood about the effect of decreased humidity on the immune system's defenses against flu infection.

The Yale research team, led by Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, explored the question using mice genetically modified to resist viral infection as humans do. The mice were all housed in chambers at the same temperature, but with either low or normal humidity. They were then exposed to the influenza A virus.

The researchers found that low humidity hindered the immune response of the animals in three ways. It prevented cilia, which are hair-like structures in airways cells, from removing viral particles and mucus. It also reduced the ability of airway cells to repair damage caused by the virus in the lungs. The third mechanism involved interferons, or signaling proteins released by virus-infected cells to alert neighboring cells to the viral threat. In the low-humidity environment, this innate immune defense system failed.

The study offers insight into why the flu is more prevalent when the air is dry. "It's well known that where humidity drops, a spike in flu incidence and mortality occurs. If our findings in mice hold up in humans, our study provides a possible mechanism underlying this seasonal nature of flu disease," said Iwasaki.

While the researchers emphasized that humidity is not the only factor in flu outbreaks, it is an important one that should be considered during the winter season. Increasing water vapor in the air with humidifiers at home, school, work, and even hospital environments is a potential strategy to reduce flu symptoms and speed recovery, they said.

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Other authors are Eriko Kudo, Eric Song, Laura Yockey, Tasfia Rakib, Patrick Wong, and Robert Homer.

This work was supported in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a gift from the Condair Group, the Naito Foundation, and National Institutes of Health grants.

You could have just said you were either wrong or lying 

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Just now, spin_dry said:

Clearly I’m right. 

Very first sentence in your copy pasta you retard :lol: 

While experts know that cold temperatures and low humidity promote transmission of the flu virus,

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