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Originally Posted by nychief
It's a bronchial virus that leads to viral pneumonia and can lead to death, especially in older people. Children are actually okay, because they are exposed to so many other corona viruses (colds). There is no treatment at the moment, highly contagious.
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There are treatments for it. Various antiviral drugs have shown very good success in treating the virus. Remdesivir, a new antiviral medication is in the testing phase and has shown great results thus far.
There's so much misinformation being spread. I'm not looking to pump sunshine and rainbows to everyone, but there's absolutely no reason to go into panic mode right now.