Posted on 03/11/2020 4:25:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As America scrambled to understand the scope of an escalating public health crisis, the number of known coronavirus cases surpassed 1,000 on Tuesday, signaling that the virus was spreading widely in communities on both coasts and in the center of the country.
As of Wednesday evening, at least 1,190 people in 41 states and Washington, D.C., have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a New York Times database, and at least 37 patients with the virus have died.
The first known U.S. coronavirus case was announced on Jan. 21 in Washington State, but the pace of diagnosis has quickened significantly in recent weeks.
At the start of this month, 70 cases had been reported in this country, most of them tied to overseas travel. Since then, new cases have poured in, first by the dozens, then the hundreds.
A majority of the cases were in Washington State, California and New York, where everyday life swiftly began to change. Businesses closed. Colleges canceled class. Governors urged people to avoid crowds.
In Massachusetts, dozens of new cases were announced on Tuesday, and in South Dakota, the governor announced the state’s five first cases, including one man who died. The number of states with no reported cases stands at about a dozen, declining by the day.
The New York Times is engaged in a comprehensive effort to track details about every confirmed case in the United States, collecting information from federal, state and local officials around the clock. The numbers in this article are being updated several times a day based on the latest information our journalists are gathering from around the country.
The number of patients treated in the United States remains a small fraction of those with the virus overseas, where thousands of people have died
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You keep on believing that, and keep on not caring about others who aren’t so young and healthy as you...like your own parents and other elders in your own family.
I’m not worried about my own health, either, even though I’m nearly 59. I’m healthy and my immune system is in fine shape. I do worry about the health of those who are older and/or not as strong as myself.
As for this disease not infecting many people YET, it only started in late November or early December from one place. Flu starts all over the place each year, so of course more people have it at this point in time. But the Spanish flu also started with relatively few cases...and ultimately infected 500 million - a billion people and killed 50 - 100 million. This disease is highly communicable, has no vaccine and no cure except one’s own immune system - that is what makes it different.
But we have nyquil and hundreds of other drugs which would have saved millions had they existed in 1918.
I am not sold on a panic which absolutely requires me to disregard the advancement of medical science in the last hundred and two years in order to embrace it.
No sale.
Actually we don’t know how many people in the US are infected because we haven’t tested very many yet. We could have a couple a thousand or a couple of million, who knows? Until we start doing large scale testing we won’t know how many cases there are.
Two very black, very loud and very scary helicopters flew low over Vasona Park in Los Gatos, California about 4:45 pm today. This was shortly after the White House announcement that Santa Clara County is one of two designated for “Community Mitigation Strategies.”
Tell me 1 of the 2 who got it from travel in Iran is John F’n Kerry?
That’s because Obola was in office. It’s now an election year, and there’s a Republican in the White House.
Who said to panic? Not me. I pointed out facts. It is not “panicking” to prepare to not go out to do food and other shopping for several weeks, as Italy is going through now, it is simple prudence. Worst case scenario is that I am wrong and use those goods up over the ensuing weeks or months, or else I use those goods as the basis for a permanent reserve of food, medicine, disposable items, etc.
What Italy is going through is not a fiction, nor is what my cousin told me (I have heard similar from people in many locations).
yep- the fatality rate is nowhere near as high as some alarmist make it out to be. That is why no one, zero under the age of 10 has died anywher in the world.
The country that has done the most testing that can be relied upon is S Korea , they have tested well over 250,000 and have 7,869 cases and 66 deaths for a fatality rate of .008 or less than 1%. That is more than the flu but nothing like what some are reporting here and in the news.
As a matter of fact if you add up the top 15 countries with reported cases excluding China, Italy and Iran ) you get over 20,446 cases and 247 deaths for a fatality rate of .012-about 1%. Probably lower and more in line with S Korea as many cases are even more mild. As more test are done you will see more confirmed cases and death rate dropping as it already has started to do thats because it is more mild than reported for most people.
South Korea has a 17% = Deaths / Ckosed Cases rate.
See here:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-korea/
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Yep - when H1N1 hit under Obama, it killed more than we have infected in about the same time frame...yet we didn’t all fall apart anywhere near this bad...
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