Posted on 03/11/2020 10:50:15 AM PDT by RummyChick
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told lawmakers during a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday that COVID-19 — the disease caused by the novel coronavirus — is probably about 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.
President Trump has often compared COVID-19 to the flu, which affects tens of thousands of Americans each year, in an effort to calm people down, but Fauci clearly wasn't trying to downplay the seriousness of the virus' spread. Fauci is a member of the White House's coronavirus task force.
At the same time, he did clarify that 10 times figure actually brings the new coronavirus' fatality rate lower than official estimates, which hover around 3 percent. The flu has a mortality rate of about 0.1 percent, so, when considering the likelihood that there are many asymptomatic or very mild cases that have gone undiagnosed, Fauci places the new coronavirus' lethality rate at somewhere around 1 percent. While that's a good deal lower than the current data suggests, it still would lead to significant numbers of fatalities, and makes the flu comparisons seem pretty questionable.
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Well, you can go earn $5k for two weeks of your time if you are willing to be injected with a virus.
Perhaps the goal as a bioweapon was economic destruction.
Better to spread than kill fast.
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for you seniors in the crowd..stay home
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Here is some news to “Lighten the mood”:
DEATH Data for the U.S.
•Number of deaths: 2,813,503
•Death rate: 863.8 deaths per 100,000 population
•Life expectancy: 78.6 years
•Infant Mortality rate: 5.79 deaths per 1,000 live births
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
•Heart disease: 647,457
•Cancer: 599,108
•Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
•Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
•Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
•Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
•Diabetes: 83,564
•Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672
•Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,633
•Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
The first confirmed case of the global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States was announced on January 21, 2020. As of March 6, 2020 [update], there are at least 259 confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., including 14 DEATHS. 164 of those cases were confirmed by the CDC.
Since 1/19/2020 to 3/6/2020:
259 Cases
14 Deaths
We are a country of 330,000,000 people.
WHERE is the EXPLOSION of Deaths and hospitalizations!? This virus has obviously been working in the US for a couple of months.
Not as bad as I’d heard. I heard 46 times as deadly.
What will make you wrong is that we take effective positive measures to stop it.
One sample???
It seems reasonable that a “vaper” would have some lung problems and be susceptible. However that’s an assumption, one sample proves nothing!
1% is sill much higher than the flu though. Of course the number of deaths is lower than the flu. The Coronavirus is just starting. We don’t know how many will eventually die. I don’t think it’s to our benefit to understate this.
Yup
Currently, in the US, for people under 60, thru March 10th, the flu remains more lethal.
so, when considering the likelihood that there are many asymptomatic or very mild cases that have gone undiagnosed, Fauci places the new coronavirus' lethality rate at somewhere around 1 percent.
That's been my estimate for about a week now.
Here in the US, thru March 10th, the daily death rate from COVID-19 has been fairly flat, and definitely not exponential.
Do you understand that?
% is sill much higher than the flu though. Of course the number of deaths is lower than the flu. The Coronavirus is just starting. We don’t know how many will eventually die. I don’t think it’s to our benefit to understate this.
I agree that underestimating is never a good idea. Let the facts and conditions lead to response. Having said that, I think currently the media and others are fostering a panic. The real mortality rate in well managed health care systems (not you Italy, Iran, and China) will probably drop to below 1%. South Korea and Taiwan are the better models of this likely drop.
Unfortunately most people are finding out that we outsourced our supply chain to China and they can’t deliver the goods which is causing big economic problems.
Just wait until antibiotics run out next month...
We also have the anti-trump crowd trying to cause panic and use this as their latest tool to get rid of him.
Yea Joe is going to save us. Sure that’ll sell.
Should I run around in circles screaming now or wait?
“I don’t see why anyone is losing it over this anyway. We’ve only got 10+ years left on the planet.”
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It has become so bad here that it is hard to tell the sarcastic from the serious.
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