Posted on 03/08/2020 4:33:27 PM PDT by blam
An infectious diseases expert at the forefront of the search for a coronavirus vaccine said on Friday that it was the most “frightening disease“ he’s ever encountered, and that “war is an appropriate analogy” for what the country is facing, as “50 – 70 percent of the global population” may become infected.
Hatchett, who sat on the White House Homeland Security Council in 2005 – 2006 and was a principal author of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan, and currently heads the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, told the UK’s Channel 4:
“This is the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career, and that includes Ebola, it includes MERS, it includes SARS. And it’s frightening because of the combination of infectiousness and a lethality that appears to be manyfold higher than flu.”
He feels this way “because of the combination of infectiousness, and a lethality that appears to be many-fold higher than the flu.“
When asked what concerns him the most about coronavirus, Hatchett said:
“I think the most concerning thing about this virus is the combination of infectiousness and the ability to cause severe disease or death. And we have not since 1918, the Spanish Flu, seen a virus that combined those two qualities in the same way. We have seen very lethal viruses. We have seen certainly, Ebola, or Nipah, or any of the other diseases that CEPI, the organisation that I run, works on – but those viruses had high mortality rates – I mean, Ebola’s mortality rate in some settings is greater than 80%. But they don’t have the infectiousness that this does. They don’t have the potential to explode and spread globally.“
Hatchett added “I don’t think it is a crazy analogy to compare this to World War II.
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Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
In April 2017, Dr Richard J. Hatchett, former director of the U.S Government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), became the full-time CEO.[7] Hatchett was also a member of the United States Homeland Security Council under George W. Bush, and the United States National Security Council, under Barack Obama.[8][9]
One in ten requiring intensive care in Italy.
Opinion indeed next he will say what the lottery numbers will be for Saturday.
I would think EBOLA is FAR WORSE......but that’s just me.
Let me get ahead of this, right fricking now...because (”don’t doubt me”), Rush will be saying it by next week and, later, the proggies: this C-19 will be blamed on global warming/climate change. Just wait...
Yeah, worldwide it is looking like about 8% hospitalized/serious/intubated (respirator).
I’m just curious. At this point anybody on free republic or in the world that doesn’t know that this may end up being a very bad pandemic is either dead or deep deep deep in a cave. Why do you feel the need, you and others, to keep posting doomsday article after doomsday article? Trust me I know life gets boring but get a pet :-)
I just want to know what the constructive part of this article and many many of the articles here have been.
We know it’s bad. We know a whole lot of people are going to get it. What does this add that helps?
So aids doesn’t count with this guy, has he studied the 1956, and 1968 flu outbreaks and what about the Swine Flu.
If this virus only spreads as much as the flu in a very mild flu year this rate (10%) will completely overrun and break down our medical system. This is what governments fear.
Source?
Good post
What about the number of we are all gonna die “epidemics” that made news and faded like the setting sun
And as you say AIDS was indeed one
But that is so yesterday, and they trot him out as an “expert”
Guess he needed to pad his resume a bit and get some airtime
Where I first heard it...have to look up the others...
https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching/videos
....it’s just too early to be making these sorts of wild statements.
The government’s dangling 8.5 billion out there righ now. So, beware of the various professional research entities that will want their share of dollars because of this “coming” dreadful disease.
“All we have to fear is fear itself.” FDR
I’m certain this is a very bad virus, but no doubt the media and leftist are milking. this for all they can get. I can and will destroy the world’s economy and send the entire planet into a panic if we are not careful. We’re in the brink now.
I hate cell phones...
Infectivity and lethality to specifically who? Thus far the CDC and WHO have released numbers and locations but not the race, age or underlying medical conditions of those who actually become infected, seriously ill and die. Limited information leads to panic but not understanding.
I think it is the most “Overblown” Flu in History
But MSM won’t give me Headlines and Front Page stories
Normalcy bias poo-pooers in 4, 3, 2, 1...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.
Yeah it’s just you and me. You are more afraid of bleeding out through your eyes and various orifices than slowly suffocating. It’s a matter of personal preference, and I agree with you.
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