An article from Great Game India asked why COVID-19 has not yet killed everyone in Bangladesh. A poor, overcrowded, and medically underserved country. The news piece said, Bangladesh just reported zero COVID deaths in the entire country in a 24-hour period. Charitably, one-quarter of the population is vaccinated. This poor, incredibly densely populated nation appears poised on…
Before 2019, some coronaviruses circulated in the population. They are the human coronaviruses 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1. The SARS-Cov-2 entered the scene in December 2019. Every time a virus infects anyone, it mutates and changes to find a way to survive. That’s because everybody’s immune system is different. The specificity and properties of an…
Omicron symptoms mild so far, says South African doctor who spotted it From BBC Dr. Angelique Coetzee diagnosed patients who later turned out to have the COVID-19 omicron variants. The patients presented differently in that they complained of “feeling so tired with sore muscle and a slight cough.” “There are no prominent symptoms. Of…
