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Join @MoNscience for our next #COVID19 Q&A today at 1pm ET. Leave your questions below and stay tuned for answers https://on.natgeo.com/3iWDXYX
That’s an interesting question—and one that’s created some public confusion.
As I hinted in a recent story, pandemic viruses tend to burn through humans like a forest https://twitter.com/dgcargill/status/1281614917112659972?s=20"
As I hinted in a recent story, pandemic viruses tend to burn through humans like a forest https://twitter.com/dgcargill/status/1281614917112659972?s=20"
SARS-CoV-2 is new, and our bodies will take time to adjust/develop immunity https://on.natgeo.com/2W6BgKy
Based on its behavior so far, the coronavirus will keep spreading until 60-70% of the human population becomes immune, either through natural infection or a vaccine. In other words, we need herd immunity.
Achieving herd immunity through natural infection would be devastating, given.... https://on.natgeo.com/2Cpeoyy
There is a bit of misinfo going around that the coronavirus will weaken over time.
No one knows for sure if that's true, as UW biologist @CT_Bergstrom has explained https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1281388738895949825
No one knows for sure if that's true, as UW biologist @CT_Bergstrom has explained https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1281388738895949825
I suspect that this misinterpretation comes from a misread of coronavirus evolution. It's thought that cold-causing coronaviruses began infecting humans roughly 800 years ago.... https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(16)30133-0
...and some scientists wonder if those cold-causing coronaviruses were more potent back then and caused ancient pandemics.
But that's just speculation. SARS-CoV-2 is here for a while.
But that's just speculation. SARS-CoV-2 is here for a while.
