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These groups are most at risk from the coronavirus. We’re talking about the young, who have not built up sufficient antibody resistance to fend off infection. Here it is usually those most vulnerable to virus infection and whose immune response is compromised. The Chinese flu follows the more conventional pattern of the common flu, which has high tides and low tides in which the body count follows. A storm inside the cells of young people whose immune response works against them (that’s one theory). Cyto indicates a cell, a small room and kine is related to kinship. This may have been due to a cytokine storm. The Spanish flu, unlike the Chinese flu, affected the most able-bodied, the young and fit. You might also want to watch here the late Robin Williams, playing the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, in Awakenings. The Gates Foundation (billionaires have to do something with their money) ran a simulation in 2018 of how an extraordinary flu virus would grow exponentially: 28 000 victims after one month 10 million after three months 33 million after six months. That would be our high-water mark in the twenty-first century. For those of you good at arithmetic, divide the world’s current population of around 7 billion by 4. The 1918 influenza pandemic (also called Spanish flu, so we could blame Spanish people for it, so Covid-19 should in the interests of fairness be called Chinese flu) infected at the beginning of the twentieth century around 500 million worldwide and around a quarter of the world’s population of around 1.8 billion. Here is a more entertaining account from Hollywood’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, of how transmission of the disease occurred in fifties America, obviously it didn’t affect black or Chinese people. 1…2 …4…16…infected cases (and since my arithmetic is crap I’ll leave it there). But let’s not forget John Gummer, over twenty-five years ago, feeding his daughter a prion burgher to disprove the mad-cow-disease scandal.Ī virus one of the smallest of living things, over time, produces an exponential effect. Viruses also have reservoirs in other animals and organisms that make the species jump to humans as did the ‘wet market’ in Asia. It too mutates and is always lying, waiting somewhere in the world for its next victim. Viruses can be thought of as the jamming of cellular DNA code. But the human body also mutates and adapts and produces antibodies which fend off most viruses. Viruses mutate and are as old as the rocks. The science of viruses is a field of study in microbiology, the investigation of very small objects, organisms a fraction of the size of a living cell. But here Covid-19, coronavirus, is a simple nametag to differentiate it from other viruses, in the same way that ship number 736 in John Brown’s yard was later tagged The Queen Elizabeth 2, to differentiate it from other ships under construction and its predecessor the Queen Elizabeth 1.
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We also get the word coronary from corona, a constriction of the arteries around the heart. Corona, from the Latin, means crown and is associated with the aurora that surrounds the sun, moon and stars. When we talk about the coronavirus it’s the virus part we need to pay attention to.