Hopkins
Epidemiologist Recaps Both What We Have Learned And Still Don’t Know
About SARS-CoV-2
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Hopkins University epidemiologist Justin Lessler was
interviewed in the NewYorker to help highlight what we have learned
about coronavirus in recent weeks and what still remains uncertain.
Here are the key items of information.
What we have learned
·
Countries need to combat the virus or health systems will get
overwhelmed as happened in Italy and Spain
·
Social
distancing stay-at-home orders seems to be working in different
places, including the US
·
A path
forward for the US could be one focused on testing as learned from
South Korea
What we still don’t
know
·
What
percent of the population has been infected
·
The
mortality rate per infection
·
How much
immune protection is obtained from an infection
·
How long
does immune protection last
·
How
effective will be the level of community or herd immunity
·
How fast
does the virus spread…what is the reproductive number (R naught)
·
How well
do asymptomatic persons transmit infection
·
Will
there be a marked seasonality
To read this interview visit:
https://bit.ly/3erwWNr ■
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