Posted on 02/03/2020 4:20:57 PM PST by GulfMan
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told CNBC on Monday that a quarter of China’s coronavirus cases require intensive treatment.
“About 25% of them have very serious disease, requiring relatively intensive or really intensive care,” said the director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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LOL. I still think we are going to need a bigger cart. We’ll probably have to start with the blue people.
President Trump needs to close down air travel to and from China...
I am following several people in China on Twitter. Chinese are posting pictures and videos with great risk to themselves. Those that do are being hunted by the police to shut it down. Even then I think you need to know how to get it outside of China.
Utterly brilliant. Thank you!
I wont name it, but I took a friend to the e.r. Sunday morning for back problems.This hospital is located 15-20 mins west of downtown here in Douglas county.
Waiting room was empty other than 2 A.A. women with flu like symptoms.
An hour later after my friend had been put in a room, I headed out to screw with the smoke nazis. In the waiting room was a third A.A. lady puking buckets all over the floor leaving a trail all the way out to her car.
She was placed in the room next to my friend. I clearly overheard the doc tell her she had fever and pneumonia.
It took two times me seeing the cna not deglove and wash coming from next door into my friends room unless I told her to before I went to the r.n.
The r.n.’s response led me to conclude that simple communicable disease protocol is not a priority at this hospital.
I used to service their floor cleaning equipment, along with other metro hospitals. Basic cleanliness isnt a priority here either.
Now this hospital is prolly the worst of the wellstar chain. Ymmv. But if basic communicable disease protocol hasnt been a focus here by the ptb, then it hasnt been anywhere other than places like Grady and Emory.
That’s totally unacceptable and I pray you and your friend don’t get sick
Don’t trust Fauci. He’s been caught bending the truth before.
US government policy is good, not very good, but good.
Understand that under ANY OTHER IMAGINABLE U.S. administration, coronavirus infected Chinese nationals would be flooding into the country as fast as the world's air fleet could carry them, the ony screening would be with those stupid remote thermometers, quarantine capacity would be zero, and "discrimination" by putting sick travelers in airborne isolation would be illegal.
Trump has done, or has allowed to be done, as much as the fragile and decomposing US political system can tolerate.
Tony Fauci is both the smartest and the most politically adept physician-scientist of my generation.
That interview was useful, informative, and impossible to turn into a headline.
Consider this: Since he was appointed by Ronald Reagan to take charge of AIDS science policy, he has stayed atop the greasy pole of federal science under Republicans and Democrats, and their minions, all of whom lust for money and recognition, He's managed to preserve a reasonable laboratory, keep funding pipelines open to the maximum extent feasible, and keep the respect of people who would normally kill a federal bureaucrat just for the hell of it.
Yikes!
And I hope your friend gets some relief.
The doctor who tried to warn people about the virus is infected now. I saw an interview of him on CNN. He is in intensive care on a breathing machine.
He is only 34 years old, so I guess this virus will take out people in their 30s too, not just the old and young.
I talk to a local nurse friend. Our hospital system is having meetings about this virus already. They are concern about being overwhelmed. They are preparing for it hoping it does not come our way.
Everybody should keep at least three months of supplies and food in their house. If the virus does not come our way at least we have food to eat for three months, no loss.
I imagine (and, sure hope) that hospital systems all across the country are doing the same.
Are you in a large metro area?
“And they have much heavier air pollution and 50% or more of the men smoke. They have a lot of endemic public health problems that we haven’t had for 50 years or more.”
Great point, but we have public heath issues in the following....
Skid Row, Los Angeles
Poop on the streets of San Francisco
Homeless living in RV part on the many different streets in CA dumping their black tanks on the road
Homeless camps in Seattle, Detroit and many other states
Dirt poor neighborhoods, the ones on the other side of the track no body talks about
Hispanic trailer park with multiply illegal families living in one trailer
It is a large area compare to other places but not a true Metro area like up north, our population in the area is just over 900000.
Edit: It is not a large area compare to other places
That 2.1% rate is bad math, just as is dividing the dead by the admitted.
When a disease is spreading rapidly, and it takes up to two weeks to die, in the early stages we are in you are functionally dividing deaths by growth, not deaths per illness.
Going further, for the 2017-2018 flu season, the CDC estimated that 45MM people got the flu (”Symptomatic Illnesses”), 21MM sought treatment, 810k were hospitalized, and 61k died.
The quick reaction makes me wonder if this was an escape from the lab.
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