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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
100k sounds awfully high at this point. If true, there should be a fairly significant number of clinically diagnosed cases by now, even in the absence of CDC style testing.
Great news! 100,000 undiagnosed cases would dramatically lower the death rate of COVID-19.
This is the most irresponsible piece of crap I have ever seen. Especially in the light of no data on which to base such a statement other than conjecture. How does this person begin to claim that Ohio has as many cases than the rest of the world? Where did they come from? Only 5 are confirmed in Ohio at this point and that number didn’t change in 2 days.
Yes there is a lack of testing, thanks SWAMP. But, that just makes this claim all the more insane and irresponsible.
Using that new math - trying to spread panic when, if true, it would mean that the super-majority of cases are less than a sniffle to deal with.
She's making it up as she goes along!Bring Out Your Dead
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The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
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Ohio likely has 100,000 coronavirus cases, top health official says Fox News ^ | March 13, 2020 | Edmund DeMarche
Posted on 3/13/2020, 3:42:31 AM by familyop
If there are 100,000 cases and only a handful of them are severe enough to be diagnosed, isn’t that an encouraging sign?
I was at a Kroger’s yesterday near Cincinnati, and it was packed. Oddly, I didn’t hear a single cough, sneeze or wheeze.
If we’re 1% infected, I didn’t hear evidence of it.