Re: <nettime> coronavirus questions

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

On 16/Mar/20 08:25, Carsten Agger wrote:
> biological and social levels: the damage to the body is mostly due to
> the overreaction of the immune system, and the damage to the economy

This body-response that you speak of was true for the SARS event -- that's why 
mortality rates for younger people were significantly higher in that epidemic, 
they had/have stronger immune systems. Those systems were triggered to the 
extreme, causing death from that over-reaction. This, so far, is not the case 
with CoVid-19, that's one of the reasons mortality is skewed more to older and 
immune-compromised folks. Everyone else's immune system is reacting 'properly'...

jh
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