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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> He mentioned the primary treatments for that flu were enemas, whiskey and bloodletting.
Instructions Unclear.
Drank a Bloody Mary. Now how does that whiskey enema work?
Therein lies part of the problem. We are actually already having a fairly "bad" flu year. If the US gets into anything like a Northern Italy type scenario*, the health care burden of COVID-19 gets added to all other burdens. Given how infectious COVID-19 appears to be (similar to cold viruses), once serious or critical cases significantly exceed our health care capacity, fatality rates for all causes will go up.
*There are factors both ways. I rather see them as a wash.
Bleach is probably right considering it’s China. Somewhere around here I have the formula for several of the sprays the US Army used for personal and equipment. They were a catch all for washing off Nuclear Biological and chemical contamination from people or vehicles. The army has in development one for just equipment now.
I remember an Oxi-clean type chemical was one of the components. We used Listerine on our horses for bacterial skin infections.
Ozone generators kill flu virus.
Or testicular torsion.
50-70 percent of countries have cases...not 50-70 have been infected.
Why? Honestly, I think part of it stems from wanting to say “I told you so.”
Or any number of other of life’s little jewels.
Prayers up for your daughter.
And when that big asteroid hits too.
This one is here.
Probably a "Clumsy Insider" screwed up taking out the trash or disposing of infected/dead test animals.
The Peoples Republic of China has scored the worst "own goal" in the history of civilization.
Word is they are dedicating a giant statue to former Minnesota Vikings Defensive End Jim Marshall in downtown Beijing next month.
Even 3.6% looks bad.
The numbers for this still seem questionable. Who really knows? The US’s CDC? Run by RosenWeasel’s sister?
“Field promoted” - drama much?
No kidding?
I’m in that cohort...
A few weeks ago on this website was a long interview with a woman who was a retired virologist with the cdc. The interviews with her were done over a two year period. This was her conclusion on AIDS.
Read it. http://tokuisei.angelfire.com/TheComingWave.html
Have you ever heard of anthrax or the black plague? They make the corona virus look like a short sneezing episode.
Did you ever read the story by the guy who had an anal fissure named Bob? I laughed nonstop. I had one once. Mild but awful.
By worse, you’d need to qualify in what regard. As an overarching generalization you’d need to combine R0, mortality rate, incubation period, and more.
....... I'm no expert .... BUT .... I am quite sure that the statistics for the mortality rate of Covid-19 would be quite different for a basically Unhygienic Country as opposed to a country that is a Hygienic Western Nation.
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