Fernand Perpignan

Salute & Benessere

What is escaping us in this epidemic?

2020-03-28 09:09:16

15 questions no one can answer.I have tried to get answers from doctors and experts, but nobody can answer these questions that many ask themselves.I hope someone can clear up all these doubts.

1. Why do the infections continue to increase despite the restrictions for many weeks now?

2. What is the real contagion mechanism?

3. Why do some people experience it practically asymptomatic if not with some minimal disturbance and others are devastated by it?

4. Why are women fewer than men?

5. Are there cases of reinfection in recovered patients?

6. Is the virus actually changing?

7. Are the drugs we are experimenting actually having any results or are the strongest subjects surviving regardless?

8. Do elderly patients mainly die from a problem of comorbidity and less immune defenses or because they are treated late or not treated because they are not susceptible to invasive treatment (intubation) compared to young people?

9. Is isolation perhaps the only way to protect yourself?

10. Does it still make sense to make the swab now in the peak of the diffusion to make diagnosis and therefore a hypothetical targeted therapy if in any case then the treatment is done on clinical manifestations?

11. Can we accept that it is a virus that is already present in nature and that has never manifested before, despite being so aggressive and so rapidly spreading?

12. Why aren't children infected with it?

13. Will this elusive vaccine be produced or will it be like all flu shots?

14. How come there have been fewer deaths in China, perhaps there have been no adequate controls?

15. Is it true that where there are more controls, are there higher percentages? Is Switzerland the country with the highest percentages because of the many checks?

These are the main questions, but I think many still have some, especially regarding the economy and work. I just focused on health.

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