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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
They won't want to damage the economy.
The virus seems to be sparing kids and killing the elderly/ill, leading conspiracy theorists to believe that this has been purposefully done to rid the world of chronically sick, disabled and elderly people who are no longer economically active.
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There are research teams at Liverpool working on this. Covid-19 has similarities with MERS (which IIRC is also a coronoavirus), which is fairly well understood - including the fact that it seems to be more dangerous in combination with certain other pathogens. It may turn out that older people, with weakened immune systems and greater exposure to the various microscopic nasties that exist, are thereby simply more susceptible.
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Originally Posted by Taf
One thing I've not heard a peep about during this "crisis" is the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
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It’s not effective against Coronavirus. Tamiflu is designed to attack a specific feature of the influenza virus. Coronavirus is not influenza.
https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/for...an-coronavirus