We need to PANIC!
Posted on 03/10/2020 11:57:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
South Korea had 7,513 Covid-19 cases as of Monday, with daily infections falling for a fourth consecutive day
Officials attribute the decrease to mass testing, improved public communication and the use of advanced technology
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South Korea has seen a steady decrease in new coronavirus cases for four consecutive days, despite being one of the worst-affected countries outside China , although global attention has shifted towards outbreaks in Italy and Iran .
As of end-Monday, it had 7,513 cases and 54 deaths. The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said there was an increase of 131 cases from Sunday to Monday.
The country averaged more than 500 new infections a day for the past two weeks, but last Friday, this number dipped to 438, then 367 on Saturday and 248 on Sunday. The daily number of confirmed cases is reported the following day.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday noted his country’s “slowing trend” of new infections but warned: “We should not be complacent at all.”
His point was underscored by the KCDC, which said that among the new patients were more than 60 people who were infected while working in close proximity to each other at an insurance company call centre.
“The total number of new confirmed cases is on a downturn but there are concerns over such mass infection cases”, said KCDC Deputy Director Kwon Jun-wook.
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We need to PANIC!
In before the clowns who are claiming a 30% death rate.
bttt
No kidding. Doing the math S.Korea fatality rate is a little over 0.7%. Kinda like the flu. And that does not take into account mild cases not reported. However, given S.Korea’s excellent testing that may be close to a good number.
Since the MSM-LSD bunch are calling the Wuhan virus racist then the corona virus is racist also against Mexico.
Finding out their flight has been diverted to Detroit instead of going to Cancun.
This is sure to disappoint gleeful dems.
Interesting trends we're starting to see in SK and the US.
Fatality rates <1.0% in S.K.
Fatalities per day, declining in S.K and flat in the U.S.
Average age of deceased patients in the US, 80 years-old, with all of them being older than 69 years-old and most all of them, if not all of them, with pre-existing conditions.
So much for that exponential graph I saw here yesterday.
Reason for this is they tested the 200,000 that were part of the religious sect which was the epicenter of the outbreak.
South Korea has tested about 100x than we have.
I guess we won’t be seeing THIS on CNBC.
Even worse, they’re all out of coffee.
Seems that flight had TOO MUCH coffee!
This only happened because Korea had huge stockpiles of toilet paper.
Once you have enough of that the chances of Corona go to zero.
Testing stops it?
Like drivers licenses for illegals improves driving?
“No kidding. Doing the math S.Korea fatality rate is a little over 0.7%. Kinda like the flu. And that does not take into account mild cases not reported. However, given S.Korea’s excellent testing that may be close to a good number.”
So many things wrong with this.
S. Korea is certainly doing the most comprehensive testing so we are getting the best numbers from there, however, your claim that it does not take the mild cases into account is false. Given the level of testing (150K+), everybody that even might have been exposed is being tested.
Even if there were undetected mild cases, that is certainly the case for the flu as well, and since those are not counted for the flu it is an invalid comparison.
Also, that 0.7% number assumes that all the unresolved cases will recover which, while I hope that’s the case, is altogether unlikely (4 died in the last day or so, for example). Allocating all those cases to the “win” column is overly optimistic at best or disingenuous at worst.
And the flu, which in many years comes close to saturating our health care system, doesn’t put as high a percentage into the hospital as this or for as long as this, on average has a fatality rate of 0.1%. So at 0.7% (optimistic) you still clog up all our hospitals and lose 7 times as many people. Once the hospitals are overwhelmed, the fatality rate shoots up sharply (Wuhan, Iran, Italy), and other things that might have been treatable get pushed aside (heart attacks, etc.)
This is why containment is crucial. While containment isn’t actually feasible anymore (thanks, butflubros!), containment efforts still slow down the spread and buy time for countermeasures. Lockdowns and quarantines help with containment, so being prepared for one in your locale is simply common sense.
Well, that explains Iran.....................
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