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Italian
death toll overtakes China's
as virus spreads
Italy, with a population of 60 million, recorded at least
3,405 deaths, or roughly 150 more than in China — a country with a population
over 20 times larger.
Italy reached the bleak milestone the same day that Wuhan, the Chinese city
where the coronavirus first emerged three months ago, recorded no new
infections, a sign that the communist country's draconian lockdowns were a
powerful method to stop the virus' spread.
(albeit
months too late for action and notification to save many)
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Coronavirus:
Are there two strains and is one more deadly?
A separate
analysis by the team suggests that the L-type was derived from the older
S-type. The first strain is likely to have emerged around the time the
virus jumped from animals to humans. The second emerged soon after that,
says the team. Both are involved in the current global outbreak. The fact that
the L-type is more prevalent suggests that it is “more aggressive” than the
S-type, the team say.
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The
two-virus scenario would tend to explain why the infections and transmissions
on the Diamond Princess cruise ship (a near perfect petri-dish coronavirus
disease case) is much lower than many
other environments.
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“In
addition to the low rate of disease incidence (83% didn’t get it), the curious
part of Figure 2 is that there’s not a whole lot of difference between
young and old passengers in terms of how many didn’t get coronavirus. For
example, sixty to sixty-nine-year-old passengers stayed healthier than
teenagers. And three-quarters of the oldest group, those over eighty, didn’t
get the virus”
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