A word about COVID-19 from Dr. Janette DeFelice.

It’s not about the people who get it and recover. It’s about those with compromised immune systems and the elderly. Those people will suffer and could potentially overwhelm the healthcare system so others won’t be able to get treatment for unrelated illnesses. It’s about PUBLIC health.

COVID-19 is highly transmissible. It makes you feel sick, but not too sick. So you continue to go to work and school. During that time, you are transmitting the disease to other people. Unlike a different corona virus called SARS. SARS made the victim very, very sick. Too sick to go to work. The sick person would stay home and not transmit the disease to others. Not so with COVID-19.

It’s true that a vast majority of those who come down with COVID-19 will have a mild illness and recover. But others will not recover. Because…