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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“If this proves to be even close to accurate it will very probably cost the President the election.”
Someone said that and it suddenly becomes a fashionable thing to spout off.
Can you name a president who has ever been blamed for yearly outbreaks of the flu? It happens every year. What about colds? People are not that stupid.
The blame goes solely to China, who kept it secret for six weeks and seeded it around the world before any other nation knew what was going on.
Dude, if the choice is between Johns Hopkins and a leak by an anonymous source, well I mean, come on.
Ok, then let's try this beer flu thing . . .
Oh, blah, blah, blah. If I get it, I’ll probably live through it. If I don’t get it, I’ll certainly live through it. If I die, well, I was going to die someday no matter what.
In the meantime, I’ll live my life, such as it is.
Scare tactics. The only thing we have to fear is.......the Trump hating media and politicians.
Reminding everyone to not touch their mail. Use tongs to pick it up, drop in a bucket and spray it down before touching.
Okay but is that what the presentation said?
4. Or you could already have caught it and just thought it was the flu or pneumonia...........
It wasn’t too long ago when a Trump hit piece from a left wing rag would get deleted by the mods. Crazy.
Yep I am still looking for the original presentation online...that “slide” came from Twitter/social media and is on a white background...I have seen another version on a brown background...easily Photoshopped. The webinar I found by the same title is here:
No “Dr. James Lawler” in it tho..
A CDC .PDF from a similar webinar:
Yeah. I would NOT assume this is the work of one man. If he is reporting to hospitals all over the nation I’m sure a team was involved. One presenter does not mean ONE researcher.
This estimate is 450,000.
Wargames. If this is what it takes to combat the spread so be it.
I was in the Army during the SARS outbreak and they were projecting worse CFR’s than this, if the virus went on a rampage. Thankfully that didn’t happen
“There aren’t any consequences for being wrong.”
Exactly, just forget about it and make something else up that some unidentified insider whistle blower over heard at some bar.
Sooner or later something will hurt Trump.
“3. You could get it and not survive.”
Right. Everybody dies.
“To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord”, for those who have made that decision.
“There aren’t any consequences for being wrong.”
Just as there aren’t any for incorrect weather forecasts, pedophile priests, Deep Staters’ crimes, or corrupt demonKKKrat politicians.
I think we all DO have the virus already.
The AHA said this was not their view. The media saw his presentation and went full hysteria via Business Insider.
Look at these titles from a short news feed. Government radio stations and television have been spewing statements like these nonstop.
“Trump Flatly Admits He’d Leave Americans Stranded to Hold Coronavirus Numbers Static”
“Trump ‘not concerned’ as coronavirus cases rise in DC area”
“Anyone Who Wants a Coronavirus Test Can Have One, Trump Says. Not Quite, Says His Administration.”
Meanwhile, you know that Democrats will be doing this.
“Man infected with coronavirus goes to bars ‘to spread the virus’”
Me and Julio down by the school yard.
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