Have you ever heard of “Covid-parties”? Incredible but true: in the United States, parties are organized to bring together people diagnosed with Covid-19 (the disease caused by the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus) and healthy people. The objective: to ensure that as many healthy people as possible are infected so that they develop (potential) immunity…
Except that at present, scientists cannot say that you cannot catch the coronavirus twice. On the contrary: on February 25, 2020, the Chinese news site Caixin claimed that 14% of patients who were infected and then cured of Covid-19 had subsequently retested positive for coronavirus.
Moreover, even in a young and healthy person, the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus can have serious consequences: thus, 4% to 5% of deaths concern people under the age of 50.
A “reward” for the first person infected with the coronavirus
“Covid-parties” have been observed in particular in the state of Washington (in the north-west of the United States) and in Alabama (in the south of the United States). With, each time, an absurd “reward”: the organizers “set up a kitty, and the first one who is contaminated by the Covid-19 earn the money“says Sonya McKinstry, city councilor for the city of Tuscaloosa (Alabama), in the abcnews microphone this July 1. “It does not mean anything (…) We try to interrupt all the parties of which we are aware.“
The United States is not spared by the coronavirus: between July 2 and July 3, 2020, 53,069 new cases were recorded in the country, as well as 649 deaths in the space of 24 hours. In total, since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, the USA has recorded 2,739,879 contaminations and 128,740 deaths.
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