I worry that the cool-kid take on these things is that they always blow over, but banality is less a feature of the object than the viewer. Enough shots across the bow and projectiles just become part of the scenery
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It kills nearly half those it infects, resists all known treatments, spreads on surfaces and medical equipment, survives nearly all sanitation protocolshttps://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/1114949988268666880 …
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A lot of opportunistic pathogens that can afflict people with reduced immunity are ubiquitous (everywhere), particularly yeast and molds. This new strain is a problem, but likely not on anywhere near a scale as implied in the article.
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What scale do you think is implied by the article? It's very clear about the numbers and the populations afflicted.
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Yikes. More scary medical news as well:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1114908346879025152?s=21 …
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I predict that global cooperation problems are going to be become considerably more salient over my lifetime
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Hospitals have had Candida infection problems for a a long time. Echinocandins will probably kill this pathogen.
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ah fuck
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