Quote Originally Posted by baggieal View Post
Almost 3000 infections today! What’s your view Dubs on really high infections again and very few deaths? Surely if it was the same strain then young people would be passing it to older people resulting in more deaths! Do you think it’s a much weaker strain?

Worrying as it looks like it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets better! If it’s a weaker strain - whose to say there won’t be a stronger strain soon than the first one!
There is usually a time lag from increased infections to hospitalization...In the USA they went from around 15K/20K daily infections to around 35K/40K with a slight increase in death rate....and some were saying...."I told you so"
But once the figure is sustained within a few weeks the increase in hospitals begin.......and then deaths. Mick is right...it is mostly under 40's age group now been infected and they have a much better recovery rate then over 50s,60s etc...

But there are unknowns in this view...For example...many asthma suffers are in the younger age group...Obesity...many younger people suffer with this...heart ailments have been on the increase in younger people in the west. A lot of these are life style choices.....with old age...you pretty much made your choices...that is why they are cocooned...

The virus is successful as viruses go...however as it replicates itself it introduces changes...like photocopying a sheet of written paper...these mutations are unknowns mainly because it is a novel virus..... So as more and more younger people get infected...it stands to reason that more will become sick, very sick and some will die.....

One thing has remained very constant throughout this ordeal so far...it has remained highly contagious, more so then the winter flu and secondly...it has not eased with the summer weather...it has continued to spread....