Posted on 03/29/2020 7:54:53 AM PDT by DannyTN
... The U.S. government’s foremost infection disease expert says the United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. ... “I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases,” he said, correcting himself to say he meant deaths. “We’re going to have millions of cases.” But he added “I don’t want to be held to that” because the pandemic is “such a moving target.” ...
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Your what do we do next flu season question is one I have been thinking about and trying to get thoughts on from others. Next flu season starts in what? 9 or 10 months. This current Covid reaction could easily be “justified” if it is a “bad” normal flu where they don’t get the vaccine right.
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Fauci has a different prediction every day. He’s a weathervane.
Shouldn’t the world be finding scores of dead people in their homes?
You know, I have heard from a number of people here that they think they might have had it, because they had a very unusual illness during this time frame. But in every case related thus far, except for one fellow who thinks he had it Hawaii, the cases were relatively mild. And none, that I have heard anyway, we’re actually tested and diagnosed cases.
Wow, excellent point!
You do realize of course, that anyone can catch this?
It is not just the seniors and immune compromised that can get CV19.
And, to make matters worse - ANY infected person can pass this - whether they are showing symptoms or not.
Hospitals worldwide are seeing a lot of cases under 50 - many in ICUs.
It’s also been estimated that 86% of all cases are asymptomatic. So, those people - even if not sick or hospitalized, can continue to spread. And with a high R0, it’s been estimated that a single person can infect thousands. (One study showed up to 59,000 infections from a single person over multiple iterations of communicability).
I don’t see a way to isolate just seniors and immune compromised and ever get this under control. It’s going to rage through our population as long as there are people spreading it - regardless of their age.
The US Gov’t and more likely Pres. Trump COULD
investigate why the owner and wife of the company
making the cure for this disease where murdered
gangland style?
OR
why the FDA shut off production of the cure
of this disease in April 2019?
OR
how much of Fauci’s and the CDC are INVESTED
into vaccines rather than a cure?
OR
why none of this is of any interest to the “government”
and the blackrobe Democrats who have been much more
interested in covering it up AND in overruling logic
and the ELECTED PRESIDENT to bring the disease IN?
Outstanding post!! You nailed it!!
I think the FluBros are unable to face reality. It would break them.
Agreed, with the addition that the non-sequestered avoid interactions with those in the risk groups.
(s) nully, who is over 65, blood type A, diabetes, HBP, obese, and has his 91 YO mom staying with him and has been hunkered down since 2/3/20....
I have heard people who suspect they might have had it, right here on this thread are a couple...but no one who was actually diagnosed. It would be interesting to find someone here who had a diagnosed case, and I haven’t seen any of those.
In all fairness he was not put in his position by Obama. He has been there longer than that.
Trump surrounds himself with too many snakes like Fauci, Bolton, Tillerson, Kelly and on and on. And I cringe every time I hear Trump talk of Andrew Scumbag in glowing terms.
1. people who aren’t at the greatest risk are still at significant risk. People aged 20 to 44, a0.2, i.e. 2 out of every 1000 will die. That’s 100,000 deaths just in the US and just among people aged 20 to 44.
2. With those 100,000 deaths from people aged 20 to 44 in the US, you’d have about 4,000,000 people who would need medical care urgently. There is no capacity to provide that level of care to anywhere near that number of people. In the entire United States there are only about 925,000 hospital beds, most of which are full under normal conditions. Of those, only about 55,000 can provide intensive respiratory care. Without this, the death rate would go up into the millions even among low-risk groups.
3. And for isolation of the sick and old, just in the United States, that would mean isolating about 25 million people. The current isolation regime only works because most people aren’t infected. There’s no way to provide services to 25 million healthy people when everyone who could care for them is infected.
so tired of this. he says “could” and then rest of media uses panic for clicks. Fauci should do his damn job and stay off the shows.
Birx seems to be gunning for a promotion by sucking up to the President.
“It’s all fine..really..it’s fine”..
Because that’s what Trump wants.
Of course, she’s also having to run right over her mentor Fauci to do so..
I’ll post some numbers. 3.2 million newly unemployed. Them’s REAL numbers.
It has yet to be demonstrated that this is much worse than any other flu season at this point in time. (I am guessing that it will be, but so far that's not showing up in the overall death rates from pneumonia and influenza.)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
Fauci has lived (and thrived) in the swamp long enough to know that exceeding expectations has it's rewards, and failing to achieve expectations may be punished. (Sometimes.) I'd suggest that it's implicit that total US deaths will likely be less than 100,000-200,000, and possibly significantly less. (99,000 or fewer.)
At 100,000-200,000 US deaths, the US death total would still be only 5% to 10% of the mortality that was seen during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.
I think I had it too in early Feb and an 83 year old friend of mine had all the classic symptoms. She’s fine now.
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