I see the same old shameless liars are here ignoring all fact to cling to their lying by anecdote
Real facts for those interested in Science and data not politically motivated panic mongering and lying.
121,340 total cased WORLD WIDE. 50,00 active cases 70,000 resolved case
4380 deaths. Average age of death: 80 years old
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I’m trying to figure out who said this was “just the flu”. I haven’t seen that from any doctor, or any person from the CDC, it isn’t what the Pence team is saying.
I’ve seen comparisons to the total medical impact of flu, and they seem reasonable, in that we are working hard to keep the total coronavirus impact down, and so far, it is using fewer hospital beds, and ending in fewer deaths, than the annual flu is.
And that isn’t a comparison of how “bad” one is relative to the other. But as a country, that is currently the biggest thing we have to worry about, the total impact of the disease, and whether we have the capacity to handle it. And the fact is, at the moment, and looking at EVERY OTHER COUNTRY that has it, including Italy, if we can hold off any major breakouts for another month, we will likely stay well within our nationwide capacity, as the flu season ends and those beds become available.
Try to find out how many people are currently in the hospital for flu. I can’t find it. But 200,000 people a year are hospitalized for the flu, so I assume about 20,000 right now, if you assume 2 weeks stay, and a 5-month period. That is way more than the number of beds taken up by COVID patients.
Emergency field hospitals are, in fact, a good way to handle a temporary need for additional space. I presume that we have our military field hospitals ready to deploy into places if there is a local outbreak that overwhelms. I wonder if one of the cruise ships could be deployed for this type of thing, kind of like the doctors without borders ships.
Hey, maybe that is an idea for stimulus — pay each major cruise company for one ship, to be taken and stocked as emergency hospitals/quarantine spaces.