Posted on 03/03/2020 9:04:25 AM PST by Mariner
A doctor on the front lines of battling coronavirus in the US said this week that the rapid spread of the deadly bug has risen to the level of an “outbreak” — and possibly even a “pandemic.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, told NBC Nightly News’ Richard Engel Monday that the illness — which has infected 100 people, killing six in the US — is “an evolving situation.”
“We’re dealing with clearly an emerging infectious disease that is now reached outbreak proportions and likely pandemic proportions,” he said. “If you look at, you know, by multiple definitions of what a pandemic is, the fact is this is multiple sustained transmissions of a highly infectious agent in multiple regions of the globe.”
Fauci urged the public not to compare the coronavirus to the seasonal flu — because the impact of the new bug can be far worse.
“When you have a brand new virus, in which no one has had any experience before, that kind of gives the virus an open roadway to spread,” he said.
He also warned of the infection’s alarming mortality rate.
“If you look at the people who have just come to the attention of the health authorities, that’s 2 to 2-and-a-half percent,” Fauci said. “But even if it goes down to 1 percent, that’s still very, very serious.”
“So if it went from 2 percent to 1, [it is] still 10 times more lethal than the standard influenza that we get on a seasonal basis,” he added.
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Because everybody knows it's just the flu. Or a bad case of the sniffles.
Ahh.... is this year’s flu a pandemic?
Latest scientific theory is it kills by entering & affecting brain, causing victim to literally forget to breathe.
Until its terminal mechanism is properly understood, let’s back off the “bad case of sniffles” rhetoric.
Yes he is. That was criminally irresponsible thing to say.
Please stop with the cincompetent drama queen hysteria. 7,800,000,000,000 people on earth 90,000 cases. This is not even as serious as the annual Flu. It is not a world ending pandemic not even close.
So please STOP with incompetent fear mongering. It despicable beyond words that people are deliberately trying to manufacture a panic over nothing.
People, watch the John Hopkins website and not these drama queen lying hysterics for real facts.
https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/
Folks, the bug cannot be stopped. It is coming to every community.
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We can slow it down, that’s all. There is going to be a body count.
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Yesterday at Costco, they were sold out of toilet paper and water and protein bars.
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Yup, end of the world. We need to quit all this crying.
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Everyone could get the flu vaccine, and we don’t......the same flu vaccine that would keep nearly 10,000 Americans per year alive.
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Let’s get our oars in the water, toughen up.
The flu is endemic.
Zzzz...yawn...wake me up when the famous mortality rate of “1% -2%” is for non-immuno-compromised cases of people under 60. Also when we finally, start getting a feel for how many that have been infected, but never sought treatment or got tested.
Disingenuous to keep using that mortality rate without a breakdown of demographics and actual estimated infections without treatment - Until they start breaking it down that way, it is all part of the hysteria being foisted upon the brain dead by the media.
How about you lying drama queens back of the irresponsible hysteric “pandemic” demagoguery 1st?
7,800,000,000,000 people on earth 90,000 cases. This is not even as serious as the annual Flu. It is not a world ending pandemic not even close.
So please STOP with incompetent fear mongering. It despicable beyond words that people are deliberately trying to manufacture a panic over nothing.
People, watch the John Hopkins website and not these drama queen lying hysterics for real facts.
https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/
In 2009 under Obama, over 12000 Americans DIED of H1N1 otherwise known as the Swine Flu..I had to find out those numbers yesterday because I didnt remember..the commie media barely mentioned it, over 12,000 dead and hardly a peep..gee I wonder why
Rats’ Sooper Tuesday must be a real barnburner to set this up for tomorrow’s headlines.
Captain Trips is way down below the fold today.
So why was Fauci never this concerned when 20,000-60,000 died of the flu each year, about half of whom had gotten the worthless annual flu shot?
The panic buying will now spread.
Stores are all running out of toilet paper and sanitizers.
I heard you can catch the Corona Virus by watching CNN for just 5 minutes???
There are seven point eight trillion people now.
Interesting.
Yeah which occurs every year without chicken little drama queen hysterics racing around screaming “pandemic” 1000 times a day
7.8 trillion people on Earth? What year is it?
This virus is one hell of a long way against the regular flu. More bull shit. This is flu season and this virus is no different except a new variety.
Please stop with the cincompetent drama queen hysteria. 7,800,000,000,000 people on earth 90,000 cases. This is not even as serious as the annual Flu. It is not a world ending pandemic not even close.
So please STOP with incompetent fear mongering. It despicable beyond words that people are deliberately trying to manufacture a panic over nothing.
People, watch the John Hopkins website and not these drama queen lying hysterics for real facts.
https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/
The influenza virus spreads a lot faster than COVID-19. Such viruses can take down an entire classroom of students in a blink of a eye in terms of everyone being sick.
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