Now that you mention it...
Posted on 03/23/2020 9:27:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
We are constantly bombarded with the "fact" that the mortality rate from the Wuhan flu is 3%. It's surprising that we aren't being told a higher number, because in Hubei Province, China, there have been 59,114 cases with 3,111 deaths, for a rate of 5.3%. But this only tells us about how many who died had been confirmed to have Wuhan flu. Were there other deaths that weren’t confirmed or other cases that never got sick enough to get tested? Science magazine reports that 86% of infections are never documented. This would mean that the Hubei mortality rate is actually 0.86%. But we don't know for sure, and without that information, any "mortality rate" is at best a guess.
Detailed drive-thru testing is reaching about 20,000 people a day with accurate tests. As of March 9, South Korea had tested 190,000 people, with only 7,478 confirmed cases and fifty-one deaths. That's a mortality rate of 0.7% – a whole lot less than advertised, and directly in line with the Hubei data if adjusted for the Science magazine report. (Newer data shows 0.6%.) While we can argue about why, it's clear that the vast majority – perhaps three fourths – of all Wuhan flu cases never have a cough or fever. Thus, they would never think that they were sick enough to need a test, but could still pass the virus on to someone else. The report in Science indicates that there are two infections from stealth carriers for every infection from an identified patient.
If we look at the United States, we find a large number of public figures announcing that they have either been exposed to the Wuhan flu, or have tested positive for it. This makes it clear that the virus is being spread broadly in the community,
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Unless the Carpenter has ED.
What is the total number of people hospitalized with Virus??? THAT is the number we need to know!
And when you’re infantry everything looks like a target.
I believe everyone will eventually test positive at some point. The whole fight here is not to keep everyone from getting it. It is about slowing down the spread so that it does not become, at any given time, more than our health care facilities can handle.
The whole system is like a freeway. We don’t want a “rush hour” that becomes gridlock. People will then die that otherwise would not have.
“If I were a Carpenter, and you were a lady...”
“My Boss is a Jewish carpenter”
Lou Albano
Actually, everything doesn’t look like wood. But all wood looks like money!
I see what you did there...
I read earlier that 21 million cell phone accounts have been canceled in China. The article explained that cell phones are necessary for things like train and bus tickets. If those 21 million accounts each represent one dead person then the Chinese death rate is wildly understated.
The “seriously ill” on worldometers is probably a pretty close approximation.
Overdoing Corona alarmism is just like climate alarmism and will be just as wrong, just much faster at being exposed as wrong.
What about gynecologists?........................
And when you are Ed Norton everything looks like ????
Now that you mention it...
You’re telling me...
“This makes it clear that the virus is being spread broadly in the community,”
Yes, and it spread fastest among people who travel internationally and socialize the most. That’s why “famous” people are more likely to get infected.
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