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Here’s How COVID-19 Compares to Past Outbreaks -- Spanish Flu, Seasonal Flu, SARS, H1N1 and Ebola
Healthline ^ | 03/12/2020

Posted on 03/21/2020 5:37:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 03/21/2020 5:37:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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L8r


2 posted on 03/21/2020 5:43:59 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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Don’t forget the Hong Kong flu of the late 60s. Over 50 million Americans were infected (about 25%) and over 1 million died worldwide.


3 posted on 03/21/2020 5:52:15 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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Thank you for the data.


4 posted on 03/21/2020 5:52:34 PM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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"So, when will things calm down with COVID-19?
According to Schleiss, it’s going to take herd immunity — which basically blocks out the virus when a large chunk of the population is immune from already being sick — along with an effective vaccine."

The most efficient way to get "herd immunity" is to let the virus run its course like we do every year with regular flu.

It would fizzle out on its own like a wildfire that runs out of brush.

Instead of shutting down the economy, we could have focused resourced on sheltering people at high risk while letting young & healthy people experience what, for them, would probably be a mild flu.

5 posted on 03/21/2020 5:55:51 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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The data doesn't matter. And it's not comparable in the slightest.

Anyone who does any comparison with this situation to any other "somewhat" similar is chasing a fools errand.

The polemics have got us to where we are today.

God only knows where it will get us tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year.

6 posted on 03/21/2020 5:59:03 PM PDT by onona
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This is so common sensical that no one in government or media thinks of it.
I with ya, brother... sister... or whatever x or y you may be...


7 posted on 03/21/2020 5:59:54 PM PDT by theoldmarine (Revival, America's only real hope!)
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To: SeekAndFind

We’re only seeing the situation just before the beginning now. The most interesting thing about the novel coronavirus is the gotcha part. Then you’re trapped.


8 posted on 03/21/2020 6:03:44 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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"Food and Drug Administration will need to prove a vaccine is safe, it could take a year or two — best case scenario."

Good luck with that …

9 posted on 03/21/2020 6:07:38 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: onona

Of course data matters. Calm down.


10 posted on 03/21/2020 6:07:59 PM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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Thanks for posting this!

This begs the question.....what is driving this??

11 posted on 03/21/2020 6:08:21 PM PDT by ealgeone
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My mom didn’t even go to the hospital.

She stayed in her bedroom and dad took care of me.


12 posted on 03/21/2020 6:09:31 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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I suspect that the virus has been around since Dec/Jan in the US and an unknown of people have already gotten it over the Winter and assumed it was bad cold or mild flu and treated it as such.


13 posted on 03/21/2020 6:17:42 PM PDT by matt04
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Spanish Flu
Global cases: 500 million
Global deaths: over 50 million (675,000 in the United States); the death rate was around 2 percent

That math doesn't add up. 50 million/500 million = 10%. All the other death rates were deaths / number infected, so this one shouldn't be deaths / population which is the only way 2% could be calculated.

14 posted on 03/21/2020 6:27:01 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Newton invented calculus when the plague shut down Cambridge. What will you do with your time off?)
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Apparently cant say Hong Kong flu according to the left that is racist and stuff..but dont forget the German Measles, I dont think they take offense


15 posted on 03/21/2020 6:41:48 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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I’m pretty sure I had it, couldn’t breath worth a damn and had a high fever for a week , basically slept it off


16 posted on 03/21/2020 6:42:47 PM PDT by LumberJack53213
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They left out the influenza outbreak of 2012-2013 which killed 56,000 in the USA. But, there was no political angle.


17 posted on 03/21/2020 6:59:03 PM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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Yes there was.


18 posted on 03/21/2020 7:09:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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Pretty sure that’s what I went through in Jan. Aggravating cough, sore joints, low on energy...the flu. Went away after 3 weeks.


19 posted on 03/21/2020 7:12:27 PM PDT by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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Our crazy governor (Asterisk Inslee) has shut schools, restaurants, nail salons, hair salons, and so forth. Instead of willie-nillie destroying jobs and the economy, he should have:

1. Encourage those who can work or study from home to do just that. Those jobs (engineering, sales, legal) and the economy would be only slightly affected.
2. For manufacturing jobs, mandate that employers document hourly handwashing (apparently soap works better than hand sanitizer for this virus). You cannot build an airplane over the internet.
3. For small businesses (restaurants, nail salons, …), mandate that all touchable surfaces be disinfected twice (or whatever) a day.
4. For small businesses, mandate that everyone who works there or goes there wears a mask. Yes, masks are not effective for those who aren’t sick, but it is a simple, nonintrusive, pro-economy thing to do.
5. Divide the population into seven groups by their last name. Then each group has one day a week to do their shopping and other stuff. That will help the “social distancing” aspect of virus containment.
6. Asterisk Inslee up and closed all public and private schools for six weeks, regardless of locale. Bad plan. What he should have done was said that schools in areas with high incidences of infection would be closed for two weeks. After one week, there would be a reassessment. If infections in that area were still increasing, keep them closed for another week. In the meantime, touchable surfaces (tables, chairs, doorknobs, sinks, whatever) would have to be disinfected mid-day. In addition, ozone generators should be run overnight to ensure the virus is exterminated. Not sure if ozone has been proven to kill Covid-19, but it is deadly against other viruses.

Anyone else have some reasonable, common-sense ideas to add to the list?


20 posted on 03/21/2020 7:34:50 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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