Sunday evening, Biden called it N1H1. He got it bass-ackwards, as he does a lot of things.
The U.S. surgeon general said Monday that the United States is about where Italy was two weeks ago in the coronavirus struggle, a sign that infections are expected to rise.
“We are at a critical inflection point in this country, people,” Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams told Fox News. “When you look at the projections, there’s every chance that we could be Italy.” Yet he said the U.S. has opportunities to mitigate the pandemic.
Two weeks ago, Italy had 1,700 cases of coronavirus and had reported 34 deaths. Now, Italy is reporting an estimated 25,000 cases and more than 1,800 deaths. About 3,800 cases have been reported in the United States and so far, more than 65 people have died from coronavirus. Although the numbers may not be directly comparable, the trajectory is, as Adams sees it.
https://apnews.com/41bb7d0b74adc5159ca602cf988edde7
I think about a very serious flu era I lived through which was much worse than the Swine Flu and certainly as dangerous as maybe this virus.
That was the Hong Kong Flu of 1968, 70 million infected in the USA with over 214,000 deaths. 1 million deaths worldwide.
Anyone have a memory of that?
I do. I was sicker than ever in my life. I was young and had 3 kids and I had double pneumonia after 3.5 days and could barely breathe. Antibiotics saved my life. The x ray looked like I was a goner. I never have been vitamin d deficient again, and been exposed to flus and never been that sick or even close.
I remember it came from Mexico and that prick Obama didn’t close the border.