This is a super interesting finding. Think of it as hipster immunology—if you caught a different coronavirus before it was cool, you may have some immunity to this more mainstream sell-out virus now. Read the thread!https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1261053426475003904 …
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If there is cross immunity to other coronavirus, then the hygiene hypothesis may have some weight here. e.g. Sweden is now leading the world in deaths per capita, but hospitals still have capacity. Anecdotally, Swedes ALWAYS still go to work with colds ...
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But if you're in a care home, perhaps you're not exposed to the common cold in the same way someone at school or an office would be - or maybe at a certain age it just doesn't protect you anymore FROM COVID. Appreciate your curiosity on this, its obviously quite complex.
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It had better not be something ridiculous like certain spittle-heavy phonemes being more common in some languages. If we have to give up fricatives then my ability to communicate will be well and truly ucked.
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The language phoneme theory is moronic, or Germans would be kaput, and Spaniards sitting pretty..
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Gonna be annoying if the explanation boils down to the epidemiological equivalent of Brownian motion but fuck I’ll take any good news we can get here.
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I really wonder if Japan had an endemic strain of "normal" coronavirus that conferred high resistance. Variation in endemic strains could explain a *lot* of the wildly different outcomes.
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