Posted on 05/03/2020 12:19:21 PM PDT by conservative98
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told Fox News on Saturday night that the U.S. significantly underestimated the number of asymptomatic cases that existed of the coronavirus.
I think were learning every day about the virus and how it interacts with us as human hosts. And thats been very important to constantly be triangulating data, Birx said. I think we underestimated very early on the number of asymptomatic cases. And I think were really beginning to understand there are people that get infected that those symptoms are so low-grade that they dont even know that theyre infected.
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Yes, and he’s actually DEAD!!!
Well genius if they were asymptomatic you can claim nothing. There have not been enough serology tests to do anything but guess
Thats the problem all the F they do is guess
Applause
Jane, you ignorant slut...
( remember SNL)
George Carlin died? I didn’t know that.
It’s maddening because in their initial presentation to Trump I’m sure they claimed to know EVERYTHING.
I think we underestimated very early on the number of asymptomatic cases.
What? When was early? And what was the point of healthy people being quarantined for 6 weeks?
Carlin died in 2008.
“Carlin died in 2008.”
Wow. I’ve been asleep at the wheel. I probably heard it but didn’t recall. Interesting that such an old skit would be so appropriate in 2020.
The man was a genius.
“Just remember that you local officials are the ones whose deepest, darkest secret prevents them from seeking higher office”.
Highly appropriate now.
And Trump has kept too many of the deepstate bureaucrats ad well as too much power to his daughter and son-in-law. He is still better than Hitlery. Nor must anyone blindly accept Trump’s decisions.
If Jared hadn’t helped in the 16 election Trump wouldn’t be president.
There are tons of people being told to just stay home if you think you have mild symptoms. Don’t go to an emergency room, don’t waste your doctor’s time. In fact they are are not hospitalizing unless you can’t breathe anymore.
These are the people who haven’t been counted as infected.
So NIH and CDC didn’t goof up. The mitigation itself necessitated rules that kept people with mild symptoms from being counted. We won’t know their numbers until tests are widely available for all, both pathological and antibody. In NYC we just have 30,000 tests coming available tomorrow, aside from those for people who had serious symptoms.
In short, the original estimates were off because of that conflict, between mitigation needs and the need for counting asymptomatics.
It was also interesting what she said about herd immunity. Everyone’s casting that term about but it is only properly used in the context of vaccination.
The regulations were based on the amount of cases that needed to be reduced in order for the health system not to collapse. Only two figures, in a sense.
Because it wasn’t feasible to test every person in the country, they underestimated how many would still have the disease at the end of the mitigation period, which now has to be factored, as a third figure, into any future predictions as we obtain the data.
I wish they would go over this basic stuff once in a while. They never did explain granular. We had to guess at that one, or look it up. We didn’t all take statistics in college.
It’s not the question mark, which is annoying enough in itself. It’s the growly noise that women—and some men— give to their words, usually at the end of a sentence. My theory is that it was originally an attempt to sound more masculine and therefore more authoritative, but then it got copied by those who are insecure for any reason.
It’s just a thing, a status marker. Like circle pins and Peter Pan collars were for my generation.
I heard that as well and just about hit the roof when I heard it. Not only is that patently false it contradicts what she said earlier about speeding up antibody testing for health care workers to see if it is safe for them to go back to work.
Sorry folks, but if theres no natural immunity a vaccine, which is an attempt to artificially create immunity, is worthless.
In the Clinton years, it was the Dick Morris invented term for giving both sides what they thought they wanted. Then Clinton, in the middle so to speak, the third point in the triangle, would voice that thing, or those two things, as policy.
Proof?
Certainly had nothing to do with my vote. No one I talked to mentioned Jared(or Ivanka)as a reason for their vote. Of course my contacts were mostly truck drivers,contractors, and sales people from all over the nation. Admittedly just a few dozen each day about half repeatedly. Those people were for Trump by 10 to 1.And I still have co-workers and the occasional visitor braying Hillary should have won.
Great thing about freedom: we can each say the other is wrong.
Except as I understand, the hydroquinine should be taken BEFORE the virus has caused severe breathing difficulties.
Many things are easier to fix with less effort if the fix is started when trouble starts.
Waiting until person is in dire straits smacks of malpractice.
“Like circle pins and Peter Pan collars were for my generation.”
And saddle shoes?
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