Posted on 03/07/2020 3:58:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
US hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths from the outbreak, leaked documents have revealed.
The spread of the deadly disease could be far worse than officials claim, with 480,000 Americans expected to die from the virus and 4.8 million hospitalized, according to a presentation hosted by The American Hospital Association (AHA) in February.
This puts the crisis on a level more than 10 times greater than that seen in a severe flu season.
The shock figures fly in the face of claims made by President Trump who has maintained on many occasions that the risk to Americans is 'low'.
Dr. James Lawler, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, presented the harrowing 'best guess' estimates of the extent of the outbreak to hospitals and health professionals as part of the AHA webinar called 'What healthcare leaders need to know: Preparing for the COVID-19' on February 26.
The slides, obtained by Business Insider, suggest that hospitals need to ramp up preparations now to reduce the death toll around the US.
At the time of the presentation last week, there were more than 80,000 confirmed cases around the globe.
In the US there was around 60 cases and no deaths.
Fast forward just one week, and the US has around 700 cases and 17 confirmed deaths.
Worldwide, more than 100,000 people have now been infected.
The leaked slides also reveal the significant risks to older people and those with pre-existing health conditions if they catch coronavirus.
People aged 80 and over have a 14.8% chance of dying if they contract the infection, the slides revealed.
The risk declines with youth, though those aged 70-79 and 60-69 are still placed at a significant risk, with 8% and 3.6% mortality rates respectively.
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That’s the opposite direction. Its no more dead so far, but it’s not done, and it’s proportionately much more deadly.
Hysteria and trivialization are both absurd.
We spend $750 Billion Dollars a year for wars we shouldn’t fight, but can’t stop a virus that will wipe out a huge number of us. That’s messed up.
You always prepare for the worst case scenario. Then if it does not happen, oh well.
If it does you are ready.
And at some point something is going to hit the fan and you will be grateful you had everything in place even if it was not used for what you planned.
What it is is contingency planning for a worst case scenario, which is necessary, getting leaked to the lamestream media which takes it for the most likely scenario in order to spread panic and sabotage a good economy.
On the other hand you have to be worried about “Boy Who Cried Wolf” syndrome.
In the end, if it is this bad, the hospital system will be left in shambles.
The politics will be wrung out of it. Then it will be possible to make changes.
But they won’t go down without a fight. People are going to be shocked at how weak our healthcare system really is. Just wait for the outrage when staffs flee their hospitals. Just wait for the screaming when this hits DC—and the old white guys think they should be treated before the old black woman. That will not end well.
The threads holding our society together have been getting thinner and thinner. Nobody will have a clue what to do when the SHTF.
“preparing for” — Money, money, money!
I flew through Bellevue last night at 5:45 doing 69. About as much traffic as I see at 4:30 AM on Monday morning.
“preparing for” — Money, money, money!
Yep. Brand new 8 billion dollar pot of gold available.
Do you have any comment on this post as it pertains to drugs he recommends and whether what he is saying will do any good:
“I know things... this is not Uncle intel,...
I work in Biohazard remediation and mitigation for a living. I specialize in disaster sites where a large number of people have passed and ensuring the site is safe for people to enter. (Think Hurricane Katrina) Places where there are cadavers, many; rotten, festering, wanting to harm others. Places that have been underwater for so long that the very walls are lined from end to end with toxic mold. So I have a inside line to people and things I cannot elaborate on
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The Corona-virus is tearing it’s way across the world, and it is truly much worse than “they” are letting on. Is a big deal and I am afraid it may become a MUCH bigger deal.
You need to go to the store and buy one of these: Pepcid, Tagamet, Adix, or Zantac.
Buy enough for you, xxxxx, xxx, and whoever you want to save, enough last 2 weeks.
This covers your H2 antagonist drug.
Buy enough Prilosec, Prevacid. or Nexium to do the same as above.
This covers the PPI Drugs. (Proton Pump Inhibitors)
Lastly, I’d buy a big ass bottle of benadryl or generic benadry. aka... diphenhydramine.
This covers your need for a H1 antagonist.
You know what benadryl does. But the H2 drugs work in the same way except on different histamines. The PPI (Proton Pump Inhibitor) stops monocytes from going into overdrive. (Monocytes = White Blood Cells)
The Coronavirus hits in a similar way to the flu. As it is a “Novel Virus” meaning the body has never seen anything like this... the body goes nuts, to the point that your own immune system kills you in something called a Cytokine Storm.
This is very similar to a “Peanut Allergy”, in that it’s the bodies response that damages the person not the peanuts.
When to start this “therapy”? No need to take anything in advance. But at the first sign of “flu like symptoms” I’d start therapy. Take it as directed on the box.
You’ll read and hear about it on the news. Obviously!
What makes this virus “The Perfect Storm” is that it:
1. Has up to a 14 day incubation period.
2. The infected start shedding the virus in as little as 5 days after exposure.
3. Is as adaptable as the common cold. Meaning that about after each 3rd generation, the virus mutates into something that would require a completely different vaccination.
We could literally ALL have this virus and not know it.”
Trump has the choice of being fried by the left for doing too little, but if successful for doing too much.
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Exactly. If we, companies, and the government all take reasonable precautions, similar to what the recommendations are for the flu, it may well not be needed. Panicking because you’ve left yourself vulnerable by being imprudent can cause more damage than the event itself.
A few weeks after the Columbine school shootings, a far worse incident happened in Belarus with teenage girls trying to get out of the rain and tripping on subway stairs.
The economy, which has been in expansion for ten years was simply looking for something to take it down.
But one need only look at the docks in Shanghai to understand that a big chunk of our economy is idle. And has been since January 24th.
That kind of contraction is going to leave a mark.
Economies will do that, and it comes and goes in cycles. But to the lamestream, recession is the desired result, and that’s reprehensible.
But when it comes to medical emergencies the wolf will show up. Maybe not across the nation but locally the wolf always shows up in the form of some sort of local calamity.
Tornado, hurricane, earthquake, fire, flood or just a really bad local outbreak of rhinoviruses.
Bad things happen so having the medical side of things prepped is always a good idea.
What is not really good is the incessant running in circles screaming "we are all going to die!" that is being pushed by some in the media. But most of the medical professionals seem to be dealing with this by being prepared but not panicked.
Preparing for the best case scenario?
That’s 1/2 of 1%. Around the same death rate of general healthy population due to old age.
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