This is actually bizarre. Thoughts, virologists?https://twitter.com/dr_barrett/status/1389331421223862272 …
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This is actually bizarre. Thoughts, virologists?https://twitter.com/dr_barrett/status/1389331421223862272 …
Health Nerd added,
So the passage appears to be from this 1992 book, which basically proposes a series of theories as to why influenza has persisted as a human infection for so long Not exactly up-to-date virology...pic.twitter.com/En9tDEyYVT
Does this mean you don’t believe in seasonality? In general? Or you believe it for flu, but not covid19?
It means that I think this theory is both very out of date and not well supported
Ok, so how do you explain or name the phenomenon by which the epidemic curves for covid19 matches for vast regions that are at the same latitude? i.e. northeastern US states, Ontario and Québec. Or the southern states like TX, LA, MS, AL, GA and Florida? How can they all match?
As many explanations as there are places, but often the simplest reason is that they don't "match", they just look vaguely similar when plotted on graphs which is not the same thing at all
I mean, try plotting, say, Brazil, Zambia, and the Northern Territory in Australia. They're wildly dissimilar, but at very similar latitudes. Or Lithuania vs Ontario vs Kazakhstan vs northern China
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