This is How the Virus Kills

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Covid-19 acts in a way that scientists are still trying to figure out. In some people who are infected, symptoms are mild -- like a common cold. Some are completely fine. In others, the infection can be fatal, stopping the lungs from functioning and causing the body to shut down. So why are symptoms so mild in some people and deadly in others? It turns out there's a tipping point -- a moment where the virus moves from one part of the body to another -- that takes the infection from manageable to fatal.

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0:00.0	The forces shaping markets and the economy are often hiding behind a blur of numbers.
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0:30.9	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 20 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.3	Cases around the world have soared past 745,000. Today, the deadly tipping point that determines when COVID-19 kills.
0:55.0	But first, the day's main stories.
0:58.0	President Donald Trump extended guidelines for Americans
1:09.0	to practice social distancing until at least the end of April.
1:13.3	Last week, he had said he hoped to see life return to normal by Easter. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
1:22.9	as well as Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising Vice President Mike Pence,
1:28.2	were able to change the president's mind about a swift economic restart by showing him
1:33.2	projections that millions of Americans may wind up infected. President Trump said Sunday
1:40.1	that 100,000 people or more may die. Only a few weeks ago, the president repeatedly downplayed
1:47.8	concerns about the virus, saying it would go away, and he was not concerned at all. A former FDA
1:55.0	commissioner proposed a roadmap for eventually getting people back to work and lifting restrictions
1:59.9	on movement. Scott Gottlieb is a physician and one of the co-authors of a paper released Sunday
2:06.6	by conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.
2:10.6	The paper spells out a four-phase plan for navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
2:15.6	The paper recommends continuing with aggressive social distancing measures
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