I saw an early quote calling COVID-19 "a cross between SARS and AIDS", which was of course extremely alarmist but did have a grain of truth to ithttps://twitter.com/CurlyJungleJake/status/1248161735455830016 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NefariousNewt
It doesn’t have a grain of truth to it, because AIDS isn’t a virus so it can’t “cross” with SARS into anything.
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Replying to @rachelRACH10 @arthur_affect
I don't think it was meant as a literal cross, but more a cross between the worst aspects of each, as if it were tailor made to be hard to kill.
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Replying to @NefariousNewt @rachelRACH10
Yes, specifically it was Chinese clinicians referring to the fact that after you get over the life-threatening pneumonia your T-cell count is badly depressed and you're extremely vulnerable to other opportunistic infections
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