There are a lot of panic-inducing threads out there about #COVID2019 and the #coronavirus that are going viral, so I thought I'd put together some much more reassuring facts for you to all think about



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FACT 5: Children are not severely impacted by the disease Very few children have died, and mostly kids experience only very mild symptomspic.twitter.com/mHVCag9phI
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The biggest issue with children is that they do get infected, so there are worries that they will transmit the disease to others and spread it further
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This makes sense to anyone who knows a child, given that they are basically walking petri dishes that will happily sneeze into your open mouth
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FACT 6: Household spread appears to be relatively limited, with somewhere between 5-20% of households having a subsequent infection Having a sick relative doesn't appear currently to be a doom sentence
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More specifically, the WHO estimates that between 3-10% of all household contacts (i.e. people living with a sick person) get sick, which is not as scary a message as you might've heardpic.twitter.com/Q9rNohuipR
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FACT 7: Thanks
@trentyarwood for this excellent reminder that YOU CAN PREVENT THE SPREAD OS DISEASE Wash your hands, peoplehttps://twitter.com/trentyarwood/status/1236829423585779714?s=20 …Show this thread -
Note: I have tried to stick very much to established facts and well-supported arguments, but the nature of this disease is that everything is fluid! Some of this may/will change over the coming days/weeks
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