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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OK. Didn’t know I was trying tho..
Exactly. It’s just the flu.
And it could easily lose Trump the election, as his “super Katrina,” when Bloomberg spends a billion dollars playing back Trump saying, “Coronavirus will disappear like a miracle.” “The flu kills more” etc.
It’s a HUGE mistake that Trump supporters took attacks on Trump about Coronavirus as “therefore, Coronavirus is just the flu.”
Super Katrina if thousands die by November. Hello President Biden (for a month) then President Hillary (after he dies in an accident.)
Granddaughter works in a hospital in SoCal. There is a definite shortage of masks—not enough for everyone. One patient has died and several more are very sick. The death has not shown up on the Johns Hopkins chart. She also said that getting testing kits isn’t easy. Of course this is anecdotal but things could be a bit worse than we’re being led to believe.
The extraordinary measures taken by the Chinese, the Koreans, and the Italians leads me to believe that the people at the tops of their governments are scared of this. For that matter, here in the US we’ve seen the first quarantine being enforced in half a century as well ‘moon-suited’ flight attendants on the evacuation flights from China tells me that President Trump isn’t taking this casually either.
Yep, you can pray, or you can worry. Don't do both!
AIDS not nearly as contagious. The swine, Asian and Hong
Kong flus not nearly as deadly as what we are seeing now so far.
AIDS not nearly as contagious. The swine, Asian and Hong
Kong flus not nearly as deadly as what we are seeing now so far.
Then why are tens of thousands of more cases of regular flu and equally more deaths from regular flu????
Or worse Biden collapses in July or August, they nominate Sanders, and he wins. USSA here we come. This could not be happening at a worse time.
My opinion is that it infects socialists. Look at all the Chinese communists who caught it and died. But that's my opinion.
Ha ha—does sound like FR.
It had a head start.
A little late I have been saying this for well over a month
And pretty much everywhere else...
I hope you’re laughing your @ss off, in six months. I really do.
(Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.)
My mom had one it was kinda gross
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
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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.::
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Pretty sure bloodletting was not being practiced into the 20th century.
My liberal son-in-law, who has Bernie stickers on his Prius. Last night he strongly disagreed with me, him saying it was people eating bats at the food market in Wuhan. I said they don't even sell bats there, and it most likely came from the Wuhan Bio facility. Can't argue with liberals, they're bat crazy.
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