California Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency after first coronavirus-related death
My great-grandmother died in the 1918 outbreak. My grandma was 7. Heartbreaking. But this happened. Death is part of life. I was sick at Christmas and recovery after simple medical attention. I was also sick with the Hong Kong version that spread...I believe in 1969. But I was a small child. Very sick. If God wants you to Heaven your time is up. Have not been sick since December although I work in public and some people are falling I'll twice this season. I feel like there is some kind of second wave of this virus or something?
WRONG “The flu” and COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, are both infectious respiratory illnesses. Although the symptoms of COVID-19 and the flu can look similar, the two illnesses are caused by very different viruses.
In other words, coronavirus is definitely not the "flu", unless you consider all disease with similar symptoms the same as people did prior to acceptance of the Germ Theory as the cause of diseases.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 vs. the Flu
The tricky politics of naming the new coronavirus
Health officials have faced a similar political tightrope recently, as the coronavirus first identified in the city of Wuhan, China, continues to be a source of growing concern. Mere weeks after it was first discovered and started spreading, it had already amassed an impressive array of sobriquets,
such as “Wuhan flu”, “
Wuhan coronavirus”, ”
coronavirus”, “
2019-nCoV”, and the rather long-winded “
Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus”. (
Read more about the global efforts to fight the new coronavirus.)
On 11 February, the World Health Organisation (WHO) called a press conference to announce the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus –
Covid-19 (a contraction of coronavirus disease-2019).
But before it was even over, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses released a paper proposing a name for the virus itself: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Two, or
Sars-CoV-2 for short. This reflects research that suggests it is a close relative of the Sars virus.
And yet people and news papers were even calling it the Flu...........People are splitting hairs over this.....It is a virus UNKNOWN YET........and classified into single virus types....with all the symtoms of the Flu............
Flu......Corona.......it is just a bad ass NEW FLU in my opinion........In comparison to the Flu in death tolls and Sars...........it's not even bad assed.