Posted on 03/14/2020 9:01:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
In an interview with Britain's Channel 4 news, Dr. Richard Hatchett, Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, a Norway-based international alliance for developing vaccines against infectious diseases, explained the long-term dangers of the COVID-19, not only for Europe, but globally:
"The threat is very significant... There are many epidemiologists who talk about the potential of the virus in terms of attack rates globally that could be between 50% and 70% of the global population.
"It is important to recognize that the virus is here and that it has tremendous potential to be disruptive, to cause high rates of illness and even high rates of death....
"I don't think we are dealing with the flu here... this is a virus that is now circulating in a population that has absolutely no immunity to it.... You might have an attack rate that is three times higher than seasonal flu with a mortality rate that is ten times higher.
"The most concerning thing about this virus is the combination of infectiousness and the ability to cause severe disease or death. We have not since 1918 — since the Spanish flu — seen a virus that combined those two qualities in the same way. We have seen very lethal viruses — Ebola's mortality rate in some cases is greater than 80% — but they don't have the infectiousness that this virus has. They don't have the potential to explode and spread globally....
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(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
The partial transcript I've provided is courtesy of good old Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge: "Covid-19: European Leaders Finally Acknowledge Scale Of Crisis," Saturday March 14, 2020.
"I think that what we are seeing is a virus that is many, many times more lethal than the flu, and a population that is completely vulnerable to it, and we are seeing its ability to explode. It has increased in some countries over the last two weeks by one thousand-fold and many countries are seeing ten-fold or one hundred-fold increases in cases. There is nothing to stop that expansion from continuing unless those societies move aggressively, engage their publics, implement multiple public health interventions, including introducing social distancing....
"We need to modify our behavior. We need to start practicing that now. We have to modify our behavior in ways that reduces the risk of transmitting the virus.... One challenge that we face is that people who are young and are generally healthy won't perceive personal risk and they will govern their behavior based on what they perceive their personal risk to be. I think we need to start thinking in terms of the social risk. If I have a cold and I go to work and shake hands with my older colleague who has a chronic medical condition, I could be responsible for that colleague's death. We all need to think about our responsibility to each other as we govern our behavior. We can't view the epidemic in terms of our personal risk, we need to act collectively in a cooperative manner....
"I don't think it's a crazy analogy to compare this to World War 2... I think this is an appropriate analogy and the mindset that people need to get into....
"We don't see any way that a vaccine can be available much more rapidly than 12 to 18 months, and even it if were to be available in 12 and 18 months, that would literally be the world record for developing and delivering a vaccine. We would not have seven billion doses of that vaccine in 12 months.
"This is a virus that is going to be with us for some time. There are many epidemiologists who believe that this virus is likely to become globally endemic and be with us in perpetuity.... I think this is a virus that we are going to be dealing with for years.
"This is the most frightening disease that I have ever encountered in my career. That includes Ebola, MERS and SARS. It's frightening because of the combination between infectiousness and a lethality that appears to be many-fold higher than flu."
because of the combination between infectiousness and a lethality that appears to be many-fold higher than flu.”..
Good grief.
I don’t remember 1/1000th of this garbage when a virus hit under obama.
And I am SO SHOCKED at the UTTER FEAR on this board.
It’s an embarrassment, to be frank.
But by all means, let’s keep shutting down every aspect of daily living.
After all, THREE people under 60 have died.
THREE.
But it’s not a bio-weapon. Nosiree.
Ping
The Howard Hughes wing of FRee Republic.
Dr. Richard Hatchett, Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. He’s been through SARS, MERS, Ebola and others. He calmly, quietly and dispassionately tells WHY he is personally worried.
Is it possible you can refute what Dr. Hatchett has to say using facts instead of your stupid, childish, hyperbolic, name-calling?
It’s great we can count on people like you to help prevent transmission of this disease.
I'm sorry..but that right there is hyperbole.
“war is not an appropriate analogy for an fighting an epidemic”
The interviewer asks that very question. She points out that may not be an appropriate analogy in London. His answer to it is excellent. But you’ll have to watch the video to get it.
Yeah, it's probably going to take out a lot of the elderly smokers and former smokers.
I’m so sorry you’re embarrassed.
Some of us have people over 60 in our lives who we’d like to keep around a bit longer.
What i find embareassing is how many people seem willing to throw grandpa under the bus.
You mean I shouldn’t be storing my urine I mason jars?
We shall see.
People have no natural antibodies against this new virus. This new virus has a very high transmission rate. A vaccine MAY available AT BEST in 12 - 18 months and billions of doses available a year or two after that initial introduction.
Not to sound like a panic peddler but this is a different virus. There’s no natural immunity to it.
Is it the Black Plague? Most likely not. But we shouldn’t underestimate it. So I recommend the following course of action.
1. Set your hair on fire.
2. Buy 167 rolls of toilet paper.
3. Buy 4 gallons of grain alcohol.
4. Have a party.
Good luck.
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I keep thinking its blown up...gonna be over soon.
“this is a virus that is now circulating in a population that has absolutely no immunity to it....”
So what? I have no immunity to the common cold or any of the many flu strains which circulate annually. I’m not dead nor have I contracted as much as a common cold in the past 20-25 yrs. So maybe I do have immunity even though I have never had a flu shot.
This guy is nothing but another of those lined up for their 15 minutes of fame and they believe the more hysterical they can sound, the more gloomy a picture they can paint the more “fame” they can garner for themselves.
When this all blows over which of course it will and without the civilization ending outcome these cranks prophesied they will crawl back under their rocks until the next world ending event is upon us.
in fact, I see anti-Trump things all over it. But maybe I’m obsessed. :o)
Paranoia killed Howard Hughes graveyard dead. Think about that.
This morning, I cooked breakfast for our Saturday morning coffee group. About a dozen old men, some very unhealthy. Eggs, sausage, grits, bacon, biscuits. I washed my hands and wiped off the table with a bleach spray. We’ve been doing this for several years, and a couple of them have departed. A couple more will probably will depart within the next year or two. I am going to continue to do it as long as I can, and as long as they want me to.
We have had lots of fun.
But you paranoiacs say everybody should barricade themselves behind locked doors with guns loaded because some boogeyman disease is out there ready to pounce.
Horseshit!
Cowering in fear, pissing your pants is not the way Americans live, and I refuse to do it.
Now how about you?
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