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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80% of fedgov due to a recent “fundamental transformation”.
Now we believe China?
Hospitals should plan for the worst. That doesn’t mean our government actually believes it will be this bad.
Oh well. I guess we ARE going to die.
Should help with the transplanted Yankees...
We are gonna die
Just not today
https://youtu.be/HD9PvujAnjE
Yeah. No. I call BS. No worse than the deaths of an ordinary annual flu virus
The sky is falling, Jim. It must be true, I read about it on the internet. Wash your hands, Jim.
I wish they would shut up about it so we can buy toilet paper again. I was at Costco twice in the last week, and they were out both times.
Im sure we have preparations for the invasion of Canada.
I was at a Costco in Long Beach, California this week. They kept announcing they were out of:bottled water, hand sanitizer, toilet paper and paper towels. The employee I talked to was frustrated at the media induced hysteria generated over coronavirus
Oopsie! Let’s just move on to the next thing we think will damage Trump. This One didn’t work, again. Sigh
Lol
1. You probably won’t get it.
2. You could get it and survive.
3. You could get it and not survive.
4. You survive but get re-infected and die
We have the damn cure!!!!!
Lol
Brian Williams is a face.
The member of the NYT editorial board is perhaps a worse case.
So why are the number of cases leveling out in China
My costco is the one in Marina Del Rey, CA I havent been there in two months but obviously now there is no point. Im not gonna stand in line for 2 hours to get inside I got the costco paper saw there is a sale on arrowhead water obviously I will have ZERO chance of getting it. I dont know why so many are hoarding on TP and water, go to any Target, Walgreens, Vons you will find PLENTY of water and TP on the shelves its not out of stock I can go right now and get it, but we have a water filter so its not really necessary
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