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Ten Critical Covid-19 Questions
3 min readMar 23, 2020
Mortality Rates Under Various Conditions1a) What is the rate of mortality among healthy non-elderly adults, and among children, who do not receive optimal care?
1b) How does that mortality rate in the absence of optimal care change among non-elderly adults with various co-existing conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease, which according to Italian data afflict 99% of the elderly who die from COVID-19.2) Does the mortality rate vary by exposure to various sources of air pollution, whether from tobacco/marijuana smoking, first-hand or second-hand, or from industrial pollution? Does asthma affect the severity of COVID-19 infection?3) Does the mortality rate vary by genetics?4) Does the mortality rate vary by nutrition/vitamin levels, and the degree to which those infected engaged in aerobic exercise before falling ill?Coronavirus Vaccine5a) In light of the fact that other coronaviruses besides COVID-19 cause colds, and are not related to influenza viruses, and the fact that medicine has not ever released any generally available cold vaccine, what are the prospects for fielding a COVID-19 vaccine? The development of common cold vaccine(s) has faced one major difficulty: the wide range of different types of viruses, and sometimes even bacteria, that cause the common cold. Coronaviruses cause fewer than 20% of common colds; rhinoviruses are the most common cause. In fact, coronaviruses in general…
