Ik heb hier nooit Nederlandse cijfers over gezien. Maar het kan bijna niet anders dan dat ook in Nederland patienten Covid oplopen in het ziekenhuis en daardoor overlijden.

#ABCovid

abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/pat

Bij de Australische NOS mag wel gezegd worden dat FFP2/FFP3 veel beter werkt dan andere mondkapjes.

"As one study found, well-fitted N95 respirators are 75 times more effective than surgical masks when both an infectious person and a susceptible person wear them."

Ook mag hard op gezegd worden dat Covid geen griepje is.

"Of course, evidence clearly shows COVID is nothing like a cold, particularly for hospital patients who are at higher risk of severe illness and death. .. more than one in 10 confirmed or suspected to have died as a result of their infection. "

@ABScientist The bulk of cases can feel very cold like actually. But you are of course perfectly correct in saying that the more severe cases are not at all like a cold and can get quite serious.

@freemo

It is a vascular disease that spreads through the air. It damages the inner lining of your blood vessels. As a consequence it can damage many organs: Gut, brain, heart, kidneys.

Very much unlike the common cold. Much more like the flu, which has been downplayed a lot as well.

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Calling it a vascular disease is **way** to premature. There is preliminary evidence suggesting this is a reasonable take, but nothing remotely approaching a point where we can or should be saying such things like their facts.. there is a LOT of researc h to be done before we can say that is a fact.

And yea, as I said, it is very much different from the common cold in its more extreme cases for sure, no doubt there.

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