What’s the mode of death with this disease anyway? Is it lung failure, cardiac arrest, or does it vary? Also...

If this virus continues to spread, I feel like infection is almost inevitable. My town has slowed down a lot since everyone is shutting themselves in, but I’m still concerned about it since researchers are struggling to develope a treatment/cure. Some are saying this could go on for 18 months. If the whole “re-infection” thing is true, and researchers can’t develope a treatment, then what can we possibly do? We can’t stay indoors forever. Neither can anyone else.

experts are completely unsure about the reinfection aspect of this virus.
keep in mind 30% of common colds are mild strains of a coronavirus.
if reinfection is true its because the virus mutated into a new form, so you'll still have immunity temporarily, and most likely covid-19 will become a seasonal endemic like the flu.

we won't need to stay indoors forever, this is just a way of slowing down the initial spread to make sure health systems aren't overwhelmed and collapse.

just fyi, I'm a med tech and I'm about to start testing samples for covid-19, while I'm not an expert I do have first hand knowledge of how hospitals are handling this new virus.

Spanish flu killed about 50 million world wide and this new sars virus is essentially doing the same thing that flu did.
The "mode of death" is essentially spetic shock due to immune system attacking the virus so well that it kills the host* or due to lack of oxygen in the blood
furthermore there's two strains, S and L
L being the more prevalent strain and thus is theorized to be the more aggressive strain. There's evidence to support that when you get one strain you're immune to the other.
*some people's immune systems over react to the virus, causing full blown organ failure
a week or two ago french docs had 100% success rate in ridding 100% of patients of the virus in an average of 5 days using the chloroquine + zithromiacin treatment that by now is being reported more and more, even fox news is talking about it as trials are underway in hospitals around the world
there are NO confirmed cases of anyone being reinfected after being confirmed recovered and any stories you hear/read about this are purely hearsay. These and other stories such as people dying after being declared virus free after testing are cases of false readings, whereas patients were found not to actually have been fully recovered.

exactly and most likely it will be treated with a combination of anti-virals, immunosuppressant and antibiotics as if you got bronchitis or pneumonia
expect annual flu + sars-cov vaccine from now on

also just a reminder that Yas Forums and Yas Forums are hands down the worst possible place to read about sars-cov 19 if you're trying avoid fear and panic driven anecdotal misinfo. just about everything you read about it here is doom and gloom from people who are good at larping and being convincing. don't buy the bullshit

>expect annual flu + sars-cov vaccine from now on
i still think its too early to say, there may be a chance of getting a vaccine, we really dont know how easily this virus mutates to prevent effective vaccines.

but since its a coronavirus, I wouldn't be surprised if its easy to mutate past vaccines.

research on this is really just started to come out and it'll be a while before we have a clear picture.

best thing we can do now if avoid unnecessary contact with people, and take the advice of medical experts.

Influenza is also a form of common cold, look at the Spanish flu.

That’s all good information, thanks user. I hope if nothing else this virus is seasonal, but experts aren’t able to answer that yet either. Some are talking like we’re gonna have to wait and find out. And good luck to you on your tests. Hope you find valid samples so maybe we can find out something new.

Good fuck em

seeing as it's highly possible the whole reason this got out is more than just a zoonotic transmission from bats, and rather the result of years of testing sars vaccines on animals that were then sold to wet markets; my assumption is that there's a good deal already known about a sars-cov vaccine. and, that's why the reports are being let out about the rapid processing of one.
it's already been identified as having mutated into the more lethal L strain and, given it's transmission around the world and the absence of another mutation so far, it's doubtful it'll mutate any further into something worse or something that gets around vaccines, much like the flu does seasonally.
the first sars cov, along with the spanish flu, literally vanished with no new reported cases since. that's promising information