Posted on 03/11/2020 9:49:44 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
The World Health Organization said Wednesday the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and that has infected more than 121,000 people around the world has become a pandemic. Until now, the WHO has characterized the illness, which broke out in Wuhan, China, late last year, as a series of epidemics. An outbreak is deemed to have become a pandemic when it has spread from human-to-human on several continents. The agency said the number of cases outside China has increased tenfold and the number of countries affected has tripled. "We expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths. And the number of affected countries, climb, even higher. WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock," WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. "And we're deeply concerned. Most by the alarming levels of spread and severity. And by the alarming levels of inaction."
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finally, the Wuhan Health Org done something that should’ve been done months ago
Good Lord!
I’m not surprised. I have been checking the Johns Hopkins coronavirus map almost daily, and noted yesterday that it really looks like it has reached pandemic status.
Scary stuff.
They waited till it was all over the US.
So, is the flu going around pandemic also?
Did China finally let them say it, or did China stop being WHO's #2 financial contributor?Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
It still won’t get Biden elected.
Only 4,382 deaths and this is a pandemic? We are witnessing an intentional destruction of the world’s economy!
To the FReepers who are helping to push this hoax: Fu*k You! You are being played by the Fake News and Leftists worldwide!
That’s better, last time it took 24 posts before the comparison to seasonal flu!
The Wuhan P4 commie virus finally gets top billing.
“So, is the flu going around pandemic also?”
Excellent question.
7.7 billion people in the world, less than 200,000 with this. not pandemic.
Are you saying that it should not be compared?
finally, the Wuhan Health Org done something that should’ve been done months ago
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Wuhan Health Organization. LOL!
Seriously, what does WHO really do other than make pronouncements about obvious things?
Nope.
At this stage, nothing will get Dementia Joe elected in November.
You can’t flog a dead horse. Not even to blind man.
No, WHO’s on first....
Yeah 30 Americans dead in 3 months (99% over 80 yo) is scary stuff. Meanwhile 100 died today due to the flu.
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