Posted on 03/29/2020 8:50:41 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday morning estimated the US could see between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths.
‘We’re going to have millions of cases,’ he said, adding that he did not want to be held to that number because the pandemic is ‘such a moving target’.
As of Sunday morning, there were more than 123,000 positive cases, and more than 2,100 deaths in the US.
New York City remains the epicenter of the nation’s outbreak, with 30,765 cases and 672 deaths.
But very sad news came from Europe.
The Portuguese health minister says a 14-year-old boy with COVID-19 has died.
The Daily Mail reported that the teenager suffered from psoriasis, but had no major underlying health conditions He lived in Ovar, south of Porto, with his family, and died in the early hours of today.
Medics are said to have decided against transferring him to a hospital with a pediatric A&E unit because of the severity of his condition.
He has been confirmed as Portugal's youngest person to die from Covid-19 so far.
Portugal reported Sunday it has 119 total deaths from the virus and 38,042 infections.
This news comes after a healthy 16-year-old girl Julie Alliot died at a Paris hospital this week.
She had no underlying health conditions and was pronounced dead a week after developing 'a slight cough'.
Sad day, RIP boy!
2100 / 123000 = 1.7%
We are actually going up.
Just think of kids in their teens and twenties who,despite seeming to be in perfect health,drop dead on the basketball court or the football field.
Sad news.
However...
There have been 155 pediatric deaths in the USA caused by seasonal influenza - in the last six months.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
Yet, no one is mourning their loss?
If we had completely shut down the USA economy six months ago, many of those 155 children would still be alive.
Viruses are killers. They don’t care how old you are.
Maybe symptoms take longer to manifest in the young. Maybe their immune systems can kill it. Maybe we’ve believed it only killed “the old” because we’ve heard it 24/7 in the media.
Maybe the lesson again is youth protects you from nothing.
JUST psoriasis?
You mean that auto immune disease that can compromise your body’s self defense system and which if you take those nasty drugs for relieving its symptoms have 4 pages of nasty side effects also compromising your body’s defense system
THAT psoriasis?????
Not for the people dying.
The Leader of China said he’ll control the World soon
Re: It’s just psoriasis, Bro.
155 USA children have died from seasonal influenza in the last six months.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
Your thoughts, Bro?
I wish the president would can him.
TODAY!
Portugal....not noted for its health care
Check this out.
Cant believe they died??? Were they immortal???
We all die! The only issue is-when, and that’s up to a greater force to decide!
Three Gorges Dam delenda est.
which is it?
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 7:00 PM PT — Friday, March 27, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the health specialist on the coronavirus task force, has said the virus’s mortality rate is closer to that of a bad case of the flu. In a Thursday report published by the New England Journal of Medicine, Fauci conceded COVID-19’s death rate was twice that of the common flu, making it roughly 0.28 percent.
That rate is exceptionally low, especially when compared to that of the SARS and MERS epidemics, which peaked at 9 percent and 36 percent respectively.
His latest comments marked a major about-face for Fauci, who previously claimed the coronavirus was 10 times as deadly as the flu.
“The seasonal flu that we deal with every year has a mortality of 0.1 percent,” he said. “I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around 1 percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.”
there is absolutely an underlying health issue if someone has psoriasis. That’s a sign your liver isn’t working properly
totally agree. off the charts hysterics
Psoriasis is caused by an immune system having an overreaction. The same kind of overreaction can happen in your lungs as a reaction to the virus.
Conversely psoriasis ointment lowers the reactions of your immune system, at least in the areas that you apply it.
I would think either way could cause a problem.
I’ll be sure to pass on your kind words to the family and friends.
I don't know if he was being treated with a suppressor -> less serious cases just use topical steroids. But this is not a time in the world's history where you would choose to be on an immune system suppressor.
The blood pressure correlation is possibly related to people, like me, taking ACE inhibitors like lorsatan and lisinopril. They open up the AC cells and the virus has an esdier path to the lungs.
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