Daily Archives: 7 February, 2020

On the Corona virus 😷

I have had a rather intensive day with lots of focus on exercise. I was not going to write more about the Corona virus, but when I read about the death of ophthalmologist Dr Li Wenliang from China, I had to write. He raised the alarm on the threat of the Wuhan coronavirus in December 2019 that it could have the same potential as a “SARS-like” virus. Wenliang died this Friday morning. He was “unfortunately infected with corona virus during his work in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic,” the hospital said (CNN).

This reminded me of when I worked at the pharmacy in Norway more than a decade ago. The swine flu caused a lot of work for the national health authorities, and it was classified as pandemic. The corona virus has not reached this level yet according to the WHO. I found this review on the corona virus, and there you can see two illustrations. Figure 1 shows the timeline from December of the Corona virus, and figure 2 shows the global distribution today. The text is rather detailed on biology. Please see the review: The Novel Corona virus

When I worked at the pharmacy in Norway, I worked closely to a medical health center. The customers were happy to get the aid they needed. A lot of people had vaccination against the flu, but later, unfortunately, severe side effects occurred for some people. It is always difficult to know in advance how treatments may turn out, and one should also ask the question “what would the result have been if there had been no vaccination?”. Viruses are clever. They can survive in conditions where human beings cannot live. And they also challenge philosophy since they are living organisms, they can duplicate like germs, but is it life?