Posted on 01/26/2020 5:36:09 AM PST by 11th_VA
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said Sunday the American public shouldn't worry about the coronavirus outbreak in China.
"It's a very, very low risk to the United States," Fauci said during an interview with radio show host John Catsimatidis.
"But it's something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously... It isn't something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about. Because we have ways of preparing and screening of people coming in [from China]. And we have ways of responding - like we did with this one case in Seattle, Washington, who had traveled to China and brought back the infection."
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Does it change the percentages? I suppose if I put out three contradicting opinions and they were all wrong that would be 100% (wrong)
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The international flight connections are located near the major population centers. These areas tend to hold to a different philosophy than the rest of the people. Will they stay at home?
Remember Jake Green’s stand at the bridge?
+1
1/30/20
*This is particularly disturbing if it proves to be true, “At least 10% die”..*
“Coronavirus: What it does to the body”
“Fighting the new coronavirus has been a battle against the unknown for doctors.
How does it attack the body? What are the full range of symptoms? Who is more likely to be seriously ill or die? How do you treat it?
Now, an account by medics on the front line of this epidemic, at the Jinyintan Hospital, in Wuhan, is starting to provide answers.
A detailed analysis of the first 99 patients treated there has been published in the Lancet medical journal.
Lung assault
All of the 99 patients taken to the hospital had pneumonia - their lungs were inflamed and the tiny sacs where oxygen moves from the air to the blood were filling with water.
Other symptoms were:
82 had fever
81 had a cough
31 had shortness of breath
11 had muscle ache
nine had confusion
eight had a headache
five had a sore throat
First deaths
The first two patients to die were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.
The first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia when he arrived at hospital.
He was in acute respiratory distress, meaning his lungs were unable to provide enough oxygen to his organs to keep his body alive.
Despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.
He died 11 days after he was admitted.
The second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.
He was attached to an artificial lung or ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation) machine but this wasn’t enough.
He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.
At least 10% die
As of 25 January, of the 99 patients:
57 were still in hospital
31 had been discharged
11 had died
This does not mean the death rate of the disease is 11%, though, as some of those still in hospital may yet die and many others have such mild symptoms they do not end up in hospital.
Market workers
Live animals sold at the Huanan seafood market are thought to be the source of the infection, called 2019-nCoV.
And 49 out of the 99 patients had a direct connection to the market:
47 worked there, either as managers or manning the stalls
two were shoppers who had only popped in.
Middle-aged men worst affected
Most of the 99 patients were middle-aged, with an average age of 56 - and 67 of them were men.
However, more recent figures suggest a more even gender split. The China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 1.2 men were infected for every 1.0 women.
There are two possible explanations for the difference:
Men could be more likely to become severely ill and need hospital treatment.
Men, for social or cultural reasons, may have been more likely to be exposed to the virus at the beginning of the outbreak.
Dr Li Zhang, at the hospital, says:
“The reduced susceptibility of females to viral infections could be attributed to the protection from X chromosome and sex hormones, which play an important role in immunity.”
And those who were already sick
Most of the 99 had other diseases that may have made them more vulnerable to the virus as a “result of the weaker immune functions of these patients”:
40 had a weak heart or damaged blood vessels due to conditions including heart disease, heart failure and stroke
A further 12 patients had diabetes.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51214864
We dodged a HUGE bullet with ebola.
HUGE.
This is MUCH more easily spread. And it’s airborne.
You are 100% correct.
If we had an epidemic, what would happen to the CDC’s budget?
(rhetorical question).
BTTT
I take 20,000 IU per day...used 5,000 for 10 yrs and my level was under 50; I want it to be 75
Another Flashback: Aug 24th, 2017
Is Anthony Fauci the Bernie Madoff of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
This didn’t age very well.
Ebola is not the most efficient virus because it kills you by the time you transmit it to the next person.
“It’s a very, very low risk to the United States”
Dr. Fauci is a piece of shit and President Trump needs to sideline him and force him to collect bat poop in a damp cave in search of a cure for COVID-19.
it was about that time if not earlier that I got my masks at Home Depot and several bottles of hand sanitizer at the Dollar store, plus goggles....
I don't even use my N95 mask...I usually just use the little paper ones.....
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