They are, I think, overstating this effect a bit. Claiming that immune systems will go to zero due to weekly reductions of x% means to a log curve not a linear, each 5% degradation will be a smaller and smaller amount. 5% of 100 is 5, (week 1) but every week it will not go down 5, but 5% of the remaining... progressively less and less. Mathematically it will not actually reach zero... ever in theory, but in practice probably twice as long as they figure in the article. (The same can be said of a bouncing ball, mathematically they never stop bouncing/deforming)
I am not an MD; just an R&D engineer. I would think at some point (well above 0 but in the 50% range) that an infection would quickly grow exponentially and kill by sepsis within days.
They are, I think, overstating this effect a bit. Claiming that immune systems will go to zero due to weekly reductions of x% means to a log curve not a linear, each 5% degradation will be a smaller and smaller amount. 5% of 100 is 5, (week 1) but every week it will not go down 5, but 5% of the remaining... progressively less and less. Mathematically it will not actually reach zero... ever in theory, but in practice probably twice as long as they figure in the article. (The same can be said of a bouncing ball, mathematically they never stop bouncing/deforming)
I am not an MD; just an R&D engineer. I would think at some point (well above 0 but in the 50% range) that an infection would quickly grow exponentially and kill by sepsis within days.
But this is sheer conjecture on my part
Fair point, halving might easily be enough to make common germs into life threatening infections.