﻿{"id":25623,"date":"2020-03-11T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25623"},"modified":"2020-03-11T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:02:37","slug":"coronavirus-nine-reasons-to-be-reassured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25623","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: nine reasons to be reassured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspapers has pulled together material to show that, while coronavirus is a serious challenge, there are reasons to be reassured:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We know what it is.<\/li><li>We can test for it.<\/li><li>We know that it can be contained (albeit at considerable cost).<\/li><li>Catching it is not that<em> that<\/em> easy (if we are careful) and we can kill it quite easily.<\/li><li>In most cases, symptoms are mild and young people are at very low risk.<\/li><li>People are recovering from it.<\/li><li>Hundreds of scientific articles have already been written about it.<\/li><li>Vaccine prototypes exist.<\/li><li>Dozens of treatments are already been tested. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/07\/coronavirus-reasons-to-be-reassured?utm_source=eml&amp;utm_medium=emlf&amp;utm_campaign=MK_SU_NewsletterCanvas&amp;utm_term=Email_MB_UK&amp;utm_content=variantA\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspapers has pulled together material to show that, while coronavirus is a serious challenge, there are reasons to be reassured: We know what it is. We can test for it. We know that it can be contained (albeit at considerable cost). Catching it is not that that easy (if we are careful) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25628,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623\/revisions\/25628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}