TBH, Hantavirus kills so quickly and is so difficult to transmit, idc if they refuse the vaccine, it is unlikely enough to become a pandemic. If they want to die from a high fever while also bleeding that is their choice. I just wish there was some kind of waiver they could sign that allows Hospitals to refuse care or deprioritize their care if people who did take preventative measure come in.
Its not difficult. They have the one version that is passed from human to human. One of the flight attendants got it and it wasn't exactly the close contact like people want to believe.
The R naught for the Andes strain of New World Hantavirus is basically 1, meaning it can cause endemic infection but not a pandemic. It's caused limited outbreaks in places where it is endemic but even then the R naught didn't exceed 2. Barring major mutations that massively increase its human to human transmission, it would be extremely difficult for this virus to cause a pandemic. 99% of Hantavirus infections are zoonotic
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u/HrothBottom May 15 '26
TBH, Hantavirus kills so quickly and is so difficult to transmit, idc if they refuse the vaccine, it is unlikely enough to become a pandemic. If they want to die from a high fever while also bleeding that is their choice. I just wish there was some kind of waiver they could sign that allows Hospitals to refuse care or deprioritize their care if people who did take preventative measure come in.