[Tennessean4Bush]

Comparing this to yesterday's numbers from NY, the severity metrics for COVID-19 in NY (e.g. hospitalization admission rate, ICU admission rate, and fatality rate are dramatically lower than the CDC estimates from February-March 16. This is great news.

[Cold Heart]

If I get the Wuhan flu, I’m buying some false ID

[Black Agnes]

They’ve gotten treatment protocols in place.

Great news.

Wonder how much of this decrease is due to MD’s using the HCQ/azi over the past week or so since Trump ‘grandstanded’ it at his press conference...

[BipolarBob]

Well the bad news is that Covid-19 kills you deader than the other flus.

[Tennessean4Bush]

From the Independent article, here are the severity stats for NY as of yesterday (Wed 3/25/2020):

• Hospital Admission Rate: 12% (4677/38977)
• Hospital ICU Admission Rate: 3% (1169/38977)
• Fatality Rate: 1.2% (466/38977)

From the article - "An update on New York state numbers shows 12 per cent of active Covid-19 cases have been hospitalised for the virus. About 3 per cent of cases are in the ICU, which is the area of main concern for people who become infected because that is where the patients need ventilators." From Worldometer - Fatalities are 466, Cases are 38977.

From the CDC article that covered data through Mar 16, the estimated severity rates were markedly higher (2449 cases):

• Hospital Admission Rate: median 26.1% (range estimate 20.7%–31.4%)
• Hospital ICU Admission Rate: median 8.2% (range estimate 4.9%-11.5%)
• Fatality Rate: median 2.6% (range estimate: 1.8%-3.4%)

So NY is significantly lower - by more than 50% - on hospitalization/severity actual metrics than the estimated metrics by CDC just last week. And those metrics through last week were lower than what all the "experts" were saying to expect.

I think it is safe to say that while this virus is very contagious, it is much less lethal and much less taxing on resources than most believed just last week. It is still lethal, and still very taxing on resources where the number of cases mushroom (like in NYC), but it is much less than was feared.

[Sequoyah101]

CDC? tje criminal returns to the scene of his crime and spews pablum.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Im’ recovering from Pancreatic Cancer (operation was successful and having follow-up Infusion/pills and soon radiation preventative treatments).

One of my oncologists said the other day “Congratulations, you’ve survived the first year”. That means with preventative treatments I should have another 4 good years before this type of cancer COULD develop again, possibly independent of the earlier one.

Well, I’ll be 80 by then so we should have a cure for this Coronavirus CODVID 19 by them. I like those odds. It’s the pesky cancer that could still be a real problem by then.

However, our medical people are doing miracle work every day inventing new medicines, adapting older ones to new situations/diseases, and making new equipment to help understand the structures of these disease critters.

They are the ones who deserve our praise for making America perhaps the best country in the world in which, if you are sick, you have the best personnel, equipment and medicines to help you get well.

I thank them all the time (been dead once. Fortunately I died in front of an emergency room doctor who was waiting for my son to deliver me to the hospital so he got to work immediately and brought me back from cardiac arrest.).

Let’s take some time to thank our police and medical responders. They are the true “miracle workers” but do it every day, usually unheralded.

[GulfMan]

They’re dying because we aren’t using the known cure, HC