Two different covid viruses

[dryheat]

I heard this theory a couple weeks ago and then saw it again today. The original virus came from China. It went to the west coast and the east coast of the U.S. The east coast virus traveled through Europe before getting here and at some early time it mutated. The result was the damage to Spain, Italy ect. Then it came across the Atlantic and that's when N.Y. got clobbered. Or it could just be God decided to slam New York because, well you know...

[Roadkingtrax]

Same parallels to the Spanish Flu. The original Kansas strain was bad, but what came back from Europe was much more deadly.

[S.A. Boggs]

Same parallels to the Spanish Flu. The original Kansas strain was bad, but what came back from Europe was much more deadly.

Yea, but how did "they" stop their disease?
Sam

[dryheat]

Yea, but how did "they" stop their disease?
Sam

Ah,boy.

[togor]

Unsure if the link below behind paywall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/u...pgtype=Article

Bottom line is that on 1-March, NYC got it's first positive test, but by then they figure there were 10K undiagnosed cases in the city, and those cases seeded much of the outbreak in the rest of the US. The West coast shows the Seattle variant more, but NYC really took it national.

It's a nice piece in that it says "this is what the evidence says". If it makes politicians in NYC, Albany, Atlanta (CDC Headquarters), or DC uncomfortable, that's too damn bad.

The lack of early testing was decisive. The CDC was in decline for a long time. Maybe just blow it up and start over somewhere else. Atlanta will howl but so what. Clearly it isn't doing any good anymore.

[Vern Humphrey]

Yea, but how did "they" stop their disease?
Sam

It burned itself out.

The Federal government adopted an old superstition, that diseases are caused by smells, and advised everyone to wear a sachet of assafoeditia around their necks. You could buy those sachets in drug stores.

[Major Tom]

My grandparents well remembered the flu in 1918. In our small town it was terrible! Makeshift hospitals were in every vacant building and unused apartments. No one had a clue how to stop it. My own family lost 2 children from it about circa 1920.

[m1ashooter]

There was a very good article of sailors in I believe Boston who has the flu and they were moved to tent hospitals where they got sun and fresh air. That helped heal them.

[Roadkingtrax]

Yea, but how did "they" stop their disease?
Sam

We've never stopped it.

[Vern Humphrey]

There was a very good article of sailors in I believe Boston who has the flu and they were moved to tent hospitals where they got sun and fresh air. That helped heal them.

From Wikipedia:

End of the pandemic
After the lethal second wave struck in late 1918, new cases dropped abruptly – almost to nothing after the peak in the second wave.[59] In Philadelphia, for example, 4,597 people died in the week ending 16 October, but by 11 November, influenza had almost disappeared from the city. One explanation for the rapid decline in the lethality of the disease is that doctors became more effective in prevention and treatment of the pneumonia that developed after the victims had contracted the virus. However, John Barry stated in his 2004 book The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History that researchers have found no evidence to support this position.[5] Some fatal cases did continue into March 1919, killing one player in the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals.

Another theory holds that the 1918 virus mutated extremely rapidly to a less lethal strain. This is a common occurrence with influenza viruses: there is a tendency for pathogenic viruses to become less lethal with time, as the hosts of more dangerous strains tend to die out[5] (see also "Deadly Second Wave", above).