Posted on 03/13/2020 12:42:31 AM PDT by familyop
Ohio health officials announced Thursday that the state has five known cases of the coronavirus, but one expert said that the number is likely much higher and estimated 100,000 undiagnosed cases...Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, tweeted her comment to his followers, warning the state’s 11.7 million residents that about 1 % are infected...His office said the state expects cases to double every six days, News 5 Cleveland reported.
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there may be as most cases are mild and not reported. infection rate will go up and fatality rate is already coming down.
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 anywhere 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 that’s because it is more mild than reported for most people.
A really bad flu year is a 0.14% fatality rate so .80% for COVID-19 is 5.8 times worse than regular flu.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm
I don't recall public gatherings and sports seasons being cancelled during the swine flu outbreak in 2009 where over 60 million Americans were infected and roughly 13,000 died.
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One of the things you have to keep in mind with the SKorean numbers is that the 0.8 is a floor. Few cases have been resolved yet. Most are still sick and that number will likely go up.
The low rate represents how quickly it spread.
But SKorea has done an amazing job testing.
The panic is worse than a terrorist attack would have been. The panic is insane
Nuke Ohio from orbit. It’s the only way. We had to rendition some citizens to save the state. Where’s my neutron bombs?
I didn’t like The Ohio State anyway. They were always kicking our butts on the football field (Michigan here). Why don’t they leave us alone and bother politician Peter.
That is assuming that we have an accurate read on the total number of cases. The actual number of cases (the denominator) is likely much higher and comprised mainly of people who are asymptomatic or those who are showing minor symptoms, all of whom have not been tested. This will drive the actual fatality rate lower. It would also be intellectually honest of the media to report that the majority of the deaths are of those who were elderly and/or those who had existing health issues.
Anecdotal - I know - but, I doubt that Tom Hanks and his wife are in hospice care or critical condition right now. The media has everyone believing that if you test positive for the virus, it is an automatic death sentence, thereby creating this panic we have now.
Haven’t seen panic in my area but today people were definately preparing. Pres. Trumps speech to the nation likely stirred many to action who were otherwise in wait and see mode.
Your neutron bomb ought to be right next to your Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator, IF you put it back away the LAST time you used it!
Yep, paper products were the first to leave the shelves
Today was the first our Super Wal-mart ran out..heard sove guy saying shelf was empty and no re-stock avaiable yet.
There’s much to be said about going to smaller groceries....Family Dollar had sufficient but dwindling. Aldi’s was good. I suspect by this weekend everyone will be out at the rate things are picking up now.
Think about it.
It’s been going on almost four months.
In that time there are 120,000 cases in the whole world.
And they say Ohio has 100,000 cases, almost as much as the entire sum of the epidemic worldwide, when they in fact know of only five cases in Ohio.
These people are stupid, insane or both. Or deliberately saying things that can’t be true.
I am going with the South Korea numbers because they have tested 260,000 people and their daily “new case rate” is dropping so their denominator is about the best we have...their “running/approx.” fatality rate is the 0.83%.
Everything I have looked at shows that COVID-19 gets to viral pneumonia much easier/faster than “regular flu”, thus leading to more serious/hospitalized/intubated & ventilated older patients. The younger crowd (80%) can have minor or no symptoms, which sounds good, but actually makes the epidemic worse because they are shedding the virus but think they are OK to go visit grandma & grandpa.
Tom Hanks is in pre-production in rural Queensland, Australia and caught COVID-19 when ALL of Australia had 128 cases reported...shows you the lack of testing (Australia & USA) can really throw off the denominator.
Funny how the worse the stock market does the worse we seem to be getting hit by the flu, oh I mean the “coronavirus”. The way the enemedia is portraying this, all of humanity should be extinct in the next week.
Mike Dewine is a female? I never knew that.
I don’t believe any of this crap. We are trusting THIS media? The same media that pushed down our throats the Russia collusion hoax for 3 years? The Brett Kavanaugh rape hoax? The Trump impeachment phone call hoax?
This is more of the same. This is the flu being portrayed as the modern day version of the black plague. Once they saw how it made the stock market panic, they played it up, these insane bastards only care about one thing and that is getting Trump out of office. They don’t give a damn how much anarchy they create, how much they disrupt life, nothing is more important to these scumrats than getting Nancy Pelosi more power, so I fully expect they will go even further with the exaggerations claiming a million people have it, then 100 million then a billion. Meanwhile I don’t know anybody who has it except for one female friend of mine who had the flu last month which took her about 5 days to knock out of her system, very COMMON.
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