[deanhills]

As for the coronavirus mutating into a second strand, what exactly are the differences between the first and second strand in terms of dangers, infectability (I don’t think that’s a word lol) and symptoms? Looking that up ended up confusing me even more!

I only heard mention in a news report about this once, and not again. It definitely has me very puzzled.

Today I checked through the WHO reports. I then realized that possibly the winter has to have something to do with it? Like if you look at the "red patches" where the cases are concentrated, they seem to be heavy in the Northern Hemisphere. There may be other factors like traveling, but then China is very interested in Africa too with plenty of business interests. I wonder whether the southern Hemisphere cases are going to take off during their winter season? Just a thought that came to me today. A shift of those big red blobs to the southern parts of the world?

I'm completely puzzled about Italy though. In one of those reports with opinions they said Italy is the country with the second most aging population after Japan. Their medical services have been completely overwhelmed though with problems with bed places and they've been calling up retired doctors to help out. Wonder whether the difference between Canada and Italy could also be Public Health education? Italians didn't take the virus seriously and looked upon it as hype. I guess one just doesn't know and maybe before we know it could take off in Canada too.