HERE'S WHY DOCTORS & NURSES KEEP DYING...PLEASE READ.

Here's some science taken from a friend in the bioscience field at the highest level. You can expect this has been explained to Team Trump.

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#1. If you take precautions, aren't exposed closely to someone who is sick and aren't immunocompromised you are unlikely to be at severe risk.

#2. Primer on viruses: they are, in essence, balls of DNA or RNA covered with protein and fat. They only work by getting into your cells, hijacking their machinery to replicate, and then releasing the new virus to infect more cells while killing the original cell in the process.

Outside your body, soap strips the fat to kill the virus, chlorine breaks up the DNA/RNA to kill the virus, alcohol can strip the fat too, but Covid-19 is a tough little bugger so alcohol wipes or cleaners are a little less effective on it than they are on cold/flu viruses.

#3. One challenge with Covid-19 is you can infect other people when you don't even know you're sick. It's not all bad because one of the reasons you don't know you're sick is it's rare to have a runny nose with it.

That's partially good because runny noses tend to lead to mucous on hands that gets transferred to door knobs, etc and that's how high concentrations of colds/flu can spread.

Covid-19 hangs around in air & on surfaces longer than cold/flu, but generally not in real high concentration. So unless you are real close to someone that is sick you aren't as likely to get a big dose of it.

#4. This is important because the amount of virus you get on day 1 has a VERY big impact on just how sick you will get.

REPEAT THAT SENTENCE.

Why? Because what really kills people is their own immune system when it finally recognizes the virus is there. The more virus you have then the larger the immune reaction.

It's like Seal Team 6 waking up in a crowded building to find it has been infiltrated with terrorists. If there are just a few terrorists they maybe able to snipe them, but if there are a bunch of terrorists bullets go everywhere and a lot of innocents die.

The same thing happens within your body. If there's enough virus your immune system kills too much healthy tissue with the bad and you get pneumonia or sepsis very rapidly.

#5. What drives the quantity of viruses is two things:

a. How much is onboard day one, and

b. How long it takes until your immune system recognizes the virus(es) arrived.

We haven't seen a virus like this so it usually takes 5-8 days to generate antibodies and go after it.

Immunocompromised people may take 7~12 days. That's a big part of why they are at greater risk. What happens is once the virus infects a cell it replicates and makes another virus that it infects on day 2 to create a multiplier effect.

Assume you get infected by 1 virus, and then it infects 10 new cells every day for 5 days:
1 --> 10 --> 100 --> 1000 -->10,000

10,000 viral cells on day 5 for the immune system to clear. Easy clean and you may not even realize you were sick.

Now imagine you are a doctor or a nurse and over 2 weeks of caring for the infected you get hit with 100 viral particles:
100 --> 1000 --> 10,000 -->100,000 -->1,000,000

One million particles on day 5!!!

That's a lot of virus and you are probably going to be really sick. That's why health care workers are at such risk. They are around it up close all day and if infected get a bigger dose.

They are the heroes and a large percentage of the young healthy people who have been the most sick or died. They had a bigger initial dose and it snowballs.

Now, if you are immunocompromised you get to a million particles by day 7 from an initial infection with 1 particle because it takes longer for your immune system to recognize and respond.

Old folks, diabetics, obese, etc...they lack fit immune systems.

#6. Remember, if you are keeping your distance, staying home if possible and washing your hands, even if you are exposed you are unlikely to get that sick because your initial dose will be lower. You may not even realize you had the virus!

#7. The only other factor worth mentioning is risks beyond being immunocompromised.

The door the virus uses to get into cells is the ACE2 receptor. If you have more doors it will replicate more. Instead of 10x/day, maybe its 15x so you get to higher amounts of virus faster.

If you are hypertensive or diabetic you are likely to have more ACE2 receptors. Be extra careful if you fit into those categories.

So listen to your health care provider. Avoid people. Wash your hands. We will get through this!!!

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