Posted on 02/25/2020 2:57:35 PM PST by blam
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, warned that the spread of China’s deadly coronavirus in the United States is all but certain and said Americans’ everyday life could be dramatically affected.
“As more and more countries experience community spread, successful containment at our borders becomes harder and harder,” Messonnier told reporters on Tuesday afternoon.
“It’s not a question of if this will happen but when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses,” the top public health official added. “Disruption to everyday life might be severe.”
Messonnier said the continued spread of the virus has led to a shift to a more dire tone.
“The data over the last week and spread in other countries has certainly raised our level of concern, and raised our level of expectation that we are going to have community spread here, so that has changed our tone,” she said.
The illness that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan has now infected more than 80,000 people globally. 77,000 cases have been confirmed in China with others in parts of Europe and the Middle East.
To date, 57 cases have been confirmed in the U.S., including 40 cases of people who the government transported from the Diamond Princess cruise ship from Japan.
The virus’ spread caused the U.S. stock market to plunge.
An expected rebound after Monday’s 1,000-point nosedive on Wall Street had yet to materialize by midday Tuesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 500 points by 1 p.m. EST. The S&P 500 was down about 50 points and the Nasdaq 122 points.
The 10-year Treasury yield hit a record low of 1.32 percent Tuesday while the 30-year bond also fell.
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very wicked flu.
what a coinkydink in an election year for Trumps’ second term.
Dr. Nancy Messonnier…
Rod Rosentein’s sister.
Messonnier should be fired for inciting panic. Rush is right as usual. This is weaponized hysteria the Rats and the Deep State are using against the President.
To date, 57 cases have been confirmed in the U.S., including 40 cases of people who the government transported from the Diamond Princess cruise ship from Japan.
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In other words, the vast majority came from the cruise ship and the others were people coming back from China or had close contact with them.
Never let a crisis go to waste. They are ignoring the other countries that seemed to have stopped the spread.
Chinese are being treated unfairly?Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
It can spread hard from retail businesses, especially those that sell groceries. And those businesses won’t close. Stock up enough on food and paper items to stay at home for at least a couple of months. Do it now.
What a pathetic coinkydink!
I’m prepped with lots of chips, gin and Zicam.......I’m good to go.
They started their panic fest too early. It will be revealed as a mini-burger long before November and the President’s refusal to submit to panic mode will be correctly assessed as wisdom and, dare I say it, conservatism?
I just started shorting stocks yesterday. Thanks for the boost, deep state.
When cases start to appear in your area, viral loads will be very high in retail stores.
Dr. Nancy Messonnier is Rosenweasel’s sister...get it?
Don’t ruin the good panic many are having here with numbers.
Not if you are an aging Asian. :) But a fearful populace is easy to control.
“very wicked flu.”
It’s a lung disease like the flu, but Covid-19 is a coronavirus like SARS.
Those of Chinese ancestry may have a gene making them more vulnerable to this virus than other population groups are.
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