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CDC Warns Of Coronavirus Spread In USA: ‘Disruption To Everyday Life Might Be Severe’
Breitbart ^ | 2-25-2010 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 02/25/2020 2:57:35 PM PST by blam

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, warned that the spread of China’s deadly coronavirus in the United States is all but certain and said Americans’ everyday life could be dramatically affected.

“As more and more countries experience community spread, successful containment at our borders becomes harder and harder,” Messonnier told reporters on Tuesday afternoon.

“It’s not a question of if this will happen but when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses,” the top public health official added. “Disruption to everyday life might be severe.”

Messonnier said the continued spread of the virus has led to a shift to a more dire tone.

“The data over the last week and spread in other countries has certainly raised our level of concern, and raised our level of expectation that we are going to have community spread here, so that has changed our tone,” she said.

The illness that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan has now infected more than 80,000 people globally. 77,000 cases have been confirmed in China with others in parts of Europe and the Middle East.

To date, 57 cases have been confirmed in the U.S., including 40 cases of people who the government transported from the Diamond Princess cruise ship from Japan.

The virus’ spread caused the U.S. stock market to plunge.

An expected rebound after Monday’s 1,000-point nosedive on Wall Street had yet to materialize by midday Tuesday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 500 points by 1 p.m. EST. The S&P 500 was down about 50 points and the Nasdaq 122 points.

The 10-year Treasury yield hit a record low of 1.32 percent Tuesday while the 30-year bond also fell.

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KEYWORDS: cdc; chinavirusus; coronavirus; covid19stockmarket; disruption; quarantine; stockmarket
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To: kaehurowing
This has a 20% fatality rate if you still have it after the second week. And it’s still not clear for a majority of patients whether you ever recover (you still have the virus in you).

Do you have more information on this?

Color me skeptical, 70k infected, 2k dead isn't alarming to me, but if there's contrary information, I'd definitely consider reassessing.

61 posted on 02/25/2020 4:09:37 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: lightman

>>I hope COVID-19 proves the death of “political correctness” and the heretofore vorbotten open acknowledgement that there ARE differences between the races that are more than skin deep.

If sickle-cell didn’t convince them, i doubt this will either.


62 posted on 02/25/2020 4:10:37 PM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: PIF
True most flues are killed by heat and humidity, but then someone needs to hop over to southern China, Vietnam and Singapore and let the virus know that it isn’t supposed to be there

Last I heard, there were 16 cases in Vietnam and all have been "cured". And I'm wondering if all of those cases originated in China.

63 posted on 02/25/2020 4:11:53 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: saintgermaine

3 years ago read about a study out of Japan that said high dose (10,000 units) vitamin D helped prevent viral infection.

Been doing this every winter since then. Haven’t had the yearly office bug since.

Pretty much all of our vitamin C comes from China and I haven’t been able to figure out if it’s regulated at all. (Or vitamin D for that matter)

Work just outside the Beltway and run into a few FDA people weekly. Ask them about our generic drugs and are they produced in China?

Their response is either “Yeah” to “Absolutely Not!”

Lordy.


64 posted on 02/25/2020 4:15:22 PM PST by lizma2
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To: PIF
according to some this is just some sort of trick and there is nothing to worry about cause its really just the flu

Are you downplaying the flu? 60k people in our country die from it every year.

(Yes I know you're about 100 times more likely to die from coronavirus once you get it.)

65 posted on 02/25/2020 4:16:35 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: hellinahandcart

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66 posted on 02/25/2020 4:17:52 PM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I confirmed as well. Thanks.


67 posted on 02/25/2020 4:19:12 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: blam

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68 posted on 02/25/2020 4:19:32 PM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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To: blam

She is just ginning up the fear. There is enough already. I can not believe everything she says knowing who her brother is.


69 posted on 02/25/2020 4:25:50 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Moonman62

“They are ignoring the other countries that seemed to have stopped the spread.”

Every country that has seen more than one case, is still seeing new cases. Even today. Except the US.

There has been no community spread documented here. But CDC is saying that is not a static situation and it will happen.

No other nation has stopped the spread. Several have slowed it.


70 posted on 02/25/2020 4:28:02 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Moonman62

They are ignoring the other countries that seemed to have stopped the spread.
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Which countries are those?


71 posted on 02/25/2020 4:30:28 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: South Hawthorne

It’s covered in medical reports assessing the risks coming out of China, I don’t have the actual links now. Basically the pattern is

First week you feel a little sick

Second week, 80% of the people will get better, 20% will have a relapse/get worse. They are generally hospitalized at that point for respiratory distress.

If you haven’t recovered by the end of the second week, in the third week you have a 20% chance of dying, as for the rest they possibly recover although it is not clear yest how fast your recover. It seems that this may linger in your system for weeks and weeks. That’s why the statistics on recovery are so low, many of those infected by the virus aren’t over it yet even though they are several weeks in.


72 posted on 02/25/2020 4:32:45 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: vikingd00d
If COVID-19 isn't the death of political correctness,
political correctness may well be the death of us.
73 posted on 02/25/2020 4:34:33 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: South Hawthorne
"... 70k infected, 2k dead isn't alarming to me, ..."

I don't know enough about viral infections to understand why EVERYBODY doesn't get one when it is prevalent.

However, a mortality rate of one in thirty five (that is, 2k dead out of 70k infected) extrapolates to approximately 10 MILLION people out of a population of 350 million in the US. Now that sounds like a lot.

If you factor in an increased mortality for the elderly, then it sounds even worse given that my wife and I are in our seventies.

Until somebody offers an explanation to justify complacency, I will choose to avoid contact with just about anybody for several months until my crystal ball loses its cloudiness.

74 posted on 02/25/2020 4:34:41 PM PST by William Tell
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To: unread

I’ve been thinking the same thing. Not just Mexico but all Spanish speaking countries and all of Africa but Mexico being right next door lacking respect for our laws and border will be a problem when this thing runs through the populations in those countries.


75 posted on 02/25/2020 4:35:14 PM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: blam

So she wasn’t making an official statement, right? She was just chatting with “reporters”?


76 posted on 02/25/2020 4:35:30 PM PST by VA40
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To: Bon mots

High doses of Colloidal Silver causes the skin to turn blue like that and it’s permanent.


77 posted on 02/25/2020 4:36:44 PM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: McGavin999

“Trump needs to say we must seal the border immediately to help stop any infected person crossing into our country. Also all passports need to be inspected and anyone coming from an infected country needs to be quarantined.”

Exactly right.


78 posted on 02/25/2020 4:47:25 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: nbenyo

And how do you substantiate that statement? Warmer temperatures in April? Look at Singapore. 80 degrees and there has been an outbreak there. What about South America, I think they have their first in Brazil.


79 posted on 02/25/2020 4:47:34 PM PST by TermLimits4All (A coup on the people's President, will result in bloodshed. Be prepared always.)
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To: Bon mots

If you take enough colloidal silver, you turn into a Smurf.


80 posted on 02/25/2020 4:47:40 PM PST by kaehurowing
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