• tedd_deireadh@piefed.social
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    9 days ago

    Sounds like something the opening news segments in a zombie movie would say.

    “I want to be unequivocal here. This is not SARS-CoV-2. This is not the start of a Covid pandemic. This is an outbreak that we see on a ship,” she said. Van Kerkhove explained that hantavirus does not spread in the same way as coronaviruses, but rather through “close, intimate contact”.

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      9 days ago

      I’m not a virologist, but saying anything in definite terms about a virus that just mutated seems silly to me.

      It’s like “ok… ok… it just changed and can now spread from human to human, but that’s it! No worries!”