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"This Is The Most Frightening Disease I've Ever Encountered In My Career" Says Architect Of National Pandemic Strategy
conservative angle ^ | 3-8-2020

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communityspread; coronavirus; covid19; dooom; fear; pandemic; panic; richardhatchett; wuhansarscov2
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Another article to cultivate panic and hysteria in the hopes of crashing the next economy.


21 posted on 03/08/2020 4:51:04 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: blam

Was he around during the 1918 Flu epidemic? Has he even read about it?


22 posted on 03/08/2020 4:52:52 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: blam

doesn’t matter

only 10+ years left


23 posted on 03/08/2020 4:53:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blam

If only the deplorables hadn’t irredeemably elected Donald Trump this wouldn’t be happening!!!


24 posted on 03/08/2020 4:53:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (I would rather have questions that canÂ’t be answered than answers that canÂ’t be questioned.)
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To: 100American

Until the actual infections are know, the case fatality rate is not know. From things I read, there are many more cases than the ones testing positive; iow, mild cases.


25 posted on 03/08/2020 4:53:17 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: dp0622
I don't know what it adds.

The rest of us here just want your mom and your aunt (and, incidentally, you:) to come through this pandemic (or whatever it is) just fine.

26 posted on 03/08/2020 4:53:36 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: GingisK

He has to say something to make it look like she’s important.


27 posted on 03/08/2020 4:53:55 PM PDT by Reily
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To: 100American

The number of deaths so far ny COVID 19 is not much above normal flu and winter respiratory. Check Center for Disease control 2015-2019. Everyone dies once. Review the Gospel of John. You don’t have to die twice.


28 posted on 03/08/2020 4:54:18 PM PDT by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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To: ripnbang

14% in China: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130
10% in Italy: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries (”Serious/Critical” = on respirator)


29 posted on 03/08/2020 4:54:20 PM PDT by Drago
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To: dp0622

Some people on-line appear to be agitated that everyone isn’t as concerned about this as they are.


30 posted on 03/08/2020 4:54:44 PM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength.)
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To: dp0622

I’m just curious. Do you know about the Flu epidemic of 1918? This one isn’t even close. Do you know how many people died last year from the ordinary flu?


31 posted on 03/08/2020 4:54:53 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Travis McGee

IT'S JUST THE WEATHER, TRAVIS!!!!!! Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GET ON BOARD THE FEAR TRAIN, GRETA MCGEE!!!!!!!!
32 posted on 03/08/2020 4:56:00 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: blam

“This Is The Most Frightening Disease I’ve Ever Encountered In My Career” Says Architect Of National Pandemic Strategy...”

He’s never had an anal fissure.


33 posted on 03/08/2020 4:56:53 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: blam

Unlikely!


34 posted on 03/08/2020 4:57:17 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: sam_whiskey

“Some people on-line appear to be agitated that everyone isn’t as concerned about this as they are.”

We are ruining their fun. Which is all this is to them.


35 posted on 03/08/2020 4:57:38 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Ann Archy

You really have to get “wet” with Ebola. It’s not transmitted as easily.

Actually, I don’t think this is a contest. A lot of folks want to debate the lethality of this thing compared to shit the will never get.

The long and short of it is that no matter if you clap your hands and believe or not—it’s coming. It’s going to kill people. It is going to overwhelm some hospitals. And it’s going to suck.

No, it’s not Ebola.


36 posted on 03/08/2020 4:59:05 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: TigerClaws

So who still thinks this virus was not at least partially bioengineered by the Chinese Communists in that Wuhan Bioweapons Facility?


37 posted on 03/08/2020 4:59:22 PM PDT by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
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To: KDF48

“I just heard Mrs. O’Leary’s barn burned down!” said one Chicagoan to a few others.

“A barn fire? Who cares...” said one

“It’s clear the other side of town.” said another

“Too bad about the cow.” said a third

“Hey, I smell smoke.” said a fourth.

The other three beat the crap out of him for being a fearmonger...


38 posted on 03/08/2020 5:00:29 PM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: TigerClaws

“One in ten requiring intensive care in Italy.”

I would like to see a breakdown of the ages of those requiring hospitalization. I suspect it is the aging population who are the most vulnerable.


39 posted on 03/08/2020 5:00:56 PM PDT by Tomato lover (Faith can survive without freedom. But, freedom cannot survive without faith. Come quickly, Jesus)
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To: All

Somehow CBS Sunday Morning allowed one fellow to sneak through in the panic report comparing the Coronavirus to the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

He mentioned the primary treatments for that flu were enemas, whiskey and bloodletting.

“Hospitals were quite different then,” he was allowed to say.

How Jane let that much out to the public we’ll never know.


40 posted on 03/08/2020 5:02:05 PM PDT by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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