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Friday 23 October 2020
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Agencies:
Users of social platforms circulate an endless number of “fake” information about the emerging corona virus, amid fears that this news will reflect on people’s commitment to preventive measures.
The site, “Medical News Today,” stripped what it described as ten strongly popular myths about the Corona virus that appeared in China late last year, and then turned into a global pandemic.
The first of these myths is that the number of Coronavirus infections has increased significantly without the death rate resulting from it, as is the case in the United States. According to Sky News.
But this claim is not accurate, because the reason for the increase in the number of new infected people and the decline in the death rate or its stability is the increase in the number of examinations, compared to what was available at the beginning of an epidemic, and this matter means that health authorities are more able to monitor and treat virus carriers.
Accordingly, the virus has not changed in terms of “fatality” and the danger it poses to health, but rather the number of examinations that are conducted for people even if they do not show any symptoms, and that is what the World Health Organization has recommended.
Not a fatal
As for the second myth, it is that the virus is not deadly as it was portrayed with exaggeration, and this opinion is incorrect, according to health experts, because it overlooks a large number of deaths even if the percentage appears low.
The researchers say that estimating the death rate from the virus is not easy, especially since the epidemic is not over yet, meaning that developments are still occurring day after day.
As for those who say that the Corona virus is not very fatal, the numbers tell them that the epidemic has claimed more than 227,000 lives in the United States alone, while the seasonal flu used to kill between 12,000 and 61,000 a year, during the past years.
And because the third myth is that Corona is considered just a regular flu, experts say that the two diseases differ greatly, because those who contract seasonal flu do not need to be hospitalized as much as in the case of Corona, and a number of those who recovered from the virus have reported chronic consequences that accompany them so far. Such as difficulties breathing, smell and the like, and this means that the disease is not as simple as we imagine it to be.
At the present time people can receive a seasonal flu vaccine, but some coronavirus vaccines are not yet widely available, or they are still in the final stages of bedside trials.
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