Influenza
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McLean: Pandemic playbooks designed for influenza fail when applied to COVID-19
“If you had argued we should take the plan for influenza and applied it to COVID, you would have been wrong. Influenza is spread in schools. Schools are super spreaders, and kids did die during the 1918 flu. It's different. So you can't say that because we prep…”
Afeyan: Early immune interventions may shield against flu, coronavirus, and HIV
“Because I think that we're learning enough about the immune system that if we intervene early enough and broadly enough, we may well create a shield, a protective shield against these hyper variable viruses like influenza, like Corona, like rhinovirus that cau…”
Friedberg: SARS-CoV-2 estimated transmission rate is 2.5 versus flu's 1.5
“The current statistical rate that's estimated for this virus is 2.5 infections per person infected and flew just by kind of comparison is 1.5.”
Balaji: Wuhan hospital overload and lockdown prove COVID is far worse than flu
“Wuhan was a normal city on December first of last year, and by January 23rd, all seven hospitals were filled. People were being sent home to die. The entire city was put under quarantine, and it was, you know, the largest, like, you know, quarantine in human h…”