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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Turns out he’s the Director of Clinical and Biodefense Research at the National Strategic Research Institute.
The NSRI sounds like it’s crawling with deep state.
Democrats want to make covid-19 Trump’s Katrina.
With help of media of course.
So much crap in this article. Hospitals aren’t “preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths from the outbreak.” Some guy on a webinar just “predicts” those numbers. And “leaked documents reveal” are just his powerpoint slides from that webinar. Sheesh.
These end of the world predictions are already outdated.
Joe Biden: “America hasn’t faced a crisis this serious since we had to deal with 170 million gun deaths after 2007.” :-P
If this proves to be even close to accurate it will very probably cost the President the election.It ain’t hard to imagine the press...and the campaign ads.
Just an idiot behind a computer screen coming up with propaganda nonsense..maybe he can tell me if the Lakers will win the NBA Finals this year
More regarding the source of this information since these slides are only visible thru Business Insider via paywall.
Between the coronavirus and the 150 million people who die every year due to guns there just won’t be many people left by the end of the year.
Cases are doubling in the US every few days now.
Which is an idiotic comparison..Katrina involved a hurricane devastating New Orleans..obviously more could have been done..this involves a VIRUS, you cant control a virus, maybe if he had suspended all international travel OK maybe could that have occurred I have no idea, but a virus is a virus, there is no way to control it it is what it is just have to fight it and hope for the best
Cases we know about, because we’re finally testing.
At this point, we really don’t know the true rate of increase in cases. I think it’s been out there for weeks already.
Exactly
“ 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. ”
I'm skeptical of this claim.
We aren’t Communist China, trying to get millions of Americans to comply with restrictions is like trying to herd cats.
Brian Williams: “If 96 million people die from this disease, then Michael Bloomberg could have donated $1 billion to each surviving family member with the $500 million he spent on his presidential campaign.” :-P
So why are the number of cases leveling out in China at about 80,000? Shouldn’t they have a few hundred million cases by now? Here’s a link to the Johns Hopkins world graph.
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Good old Brain.
The Daily Mail... Right. Totally credible... **SPIT**
Ya but we just found out you can get the Corona by texting and using social media. Transmissions are gonna explode don’t ya know......
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