Bodes ill for clinical treatment
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 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.
[usa today]Q. What else don’t we know?
[Fauci]A. Another thing that we don’t know is why, with a respiratory-borne illness, are there virtually no children getting infected. I mean, there are no cases of kids less than 15 years old. Does that mean for some strange reason they’re not getting infected, or the illness is so mild in children that we’re not noticing it? It’s very clear the median age is 56 or 59.
Q. Who is at greatest risk?
A. It’s almost identical to what we’re seeing with influenza. If you’re elderly, have chronic lung disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes, obesity — all of that makes you much more likely to have complications, if not death.
Q. So why do some relatively young and healthy people like Li Wenliang, the 34-year-old Chinese doctor who tried to sound the alarm, die from COVID-19?
A. Every once in a while, you’re going to get an outlier, someone who otherwise looks perfectly healthy. Most likely, their genetic makeup doesn’t allow them to respond adequately to flu.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/17/new-coronavirus-what-dont-we-know-dr-anthony-fauci-q-a-opinion/4790996002/