Posted on 05/03/2020 12:19:21 PM PDT by conservative98
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told Fox News on Saturday night that the U.S. significantly underestimated the number of asymptomatic cases that existed of the coronavirus.
“I think we’re learning every day about the virus and how it interacts with us as human hosts. And that’s been very important to constantly be triangulating data,” Birx said. “I think we underestimated very early on the number of asymptomatic cases. And I think we’re really beginning to understand there are people that get infected that those symptoms are so low-grade that they don’t even know that they’re infected.”
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All this incessant yakking... every year there’s the flu scare and the only message is for the American public (Stepford Wives) to get a shot.
I really wish Trump would cut ties with these two nitwits already! If Birx and Fauci were on The Apprentice, they would’ve already had Trump tell them: “YOU’RE FIRED!”
This virus has been in the US since Mid December I believe..we lived with it then, we can live with it now..only difference is back then we didnt know people were infected, now we do. Here in SoCal we are under a stay at home order, everything is closed yet everyday there are 1,000 new cases, so let me understand this, staying at home, yet new cases, so what are we gaining by staying home, nothing
He cant do that now, trust me I think he wants to but he knows he is stuck with them for now..til this is over
As is my right as a citizen of this great Republic.
If you wish to subject yourself to the rule of elitist “experts” who are wrong more often than they are right, be my guest.
My problem with these two isn’t so much that they got it wrong. That’s easy to do with a virus no one has seen before.
It’s that in typical elitist fashion they’re too damn arrogant to admit it.
Particularly Fauci who has rarely been right in his 52 years as a Washington bureaucrat.
He cant do that now, trust me I think he wants to but he knows he is stuck with them for now..til this is over
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Yeah, I understand the optics thingy. At the very least I hope he can mute them. I really hope all future CTF briefings are done by Trump alone! No more Birx and Fauci pouring cold water on our nation opening back up!
Keep triangulating the granularity, Debs.
At least Trump blocked Fauci from testifying in the House and I didn’t see Fauci pictured or speaking at the last briefing. This is a start. When Fauci testifies in the Senate the Democrats won’t be getting what they think they will.
At least Trump blocked Fauci from testifying in the House and I didn’t see Fauci pictured or speaking at the last briefing. This is a start. When Fauci testifies in the Senate the Democrats won’t be getting what they think they will.
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You make a fair point!
There were not only the asymptomatic cases — there were people who had symptoms but never visited the doctor, thinking it was just another flu bug, or not wanting to get quarantined. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
Well at least everyday we see her in a different scarf LOL
With Fauci, its ALL about making big bucks..notice he only touts the drug that costs 1,000 per dose, instead of the hydroxy which is proven to work but costs mere pennies, its all about giving big bucks to big pharma
The CDC had no idea what was coming our way from China during January.
I speculate that they already knew that the Chinese had isolated Wuhan from the rest of China, but were allowing international flights in and out of Wuhan.
At that point the Chinese were lying and the W.H.O. were repeating their lies.
The medical community was very concerned about isolating cases and using the limited testing available to discriminate between Wuhan virus and normal flu’s and malady’s.
At the time, this was probably the correct call. Remember nobody knew if it was weaponized and if we were under a biological attack (which, in a way, we were).
I think a lesson to be learned is that they needed to carve out some statistical populations and perform more extensive testing which included those who did not have symptoms. That type of testing did not seem to start until April, which is kind of late.
The experts are still not stating whether asymptomatic patients are infectious. We need to know that more than just the numbers of asymptomatic cases. If asymptomatic cases are not as infectious, the lock down can be lifted much sooner.
Someone on this thread pointed out that even with lock down we are experiencing 1000 new cases per day. Actually, confirmed cases is one of the statistics which is easy to manipulate, if one so chooses.
Given that they know that a lot of previously undetected people had the virus, it is quite easy to crank up 1000 cases per day simply by testing previously asymptomatic cases. This is why hospitalizations are probably a better way to track the pandemic rather than “new cases”.
LOL!
Amen and Amen!
Now you tell us.
I figured that out many weeks ago, as could have anyone else who has a lick of common sense. If the death rate was really 3% like the panic-mongering fools were wailing, we would absolutely have hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths by new. Think about it. Who but a few hypochondriacs, bothers going to the doctor for a minor cold? Most people don’t want to waste the time, and the increasingly hefty copayment, to be told to buy some damn Ny-Quil at Walmart. And 99% of those getting the ChiCom Beer Cold just experience a minor cold. So they never make it to the medical system to become a “case”. This makes the “cases” count insanely biased to those who actually have severe symptons. Severe enough to deal with the hassle of waiting behind half of the third world in urgent care to pay $100 in copayment to probably be told to take an aspirin and go away. As in “this is really bad, I NEED to see a doctor”. It heavily skews the actual numbers.
On top of that, I’ve had at least one family friend (good friend of my Mom) come down with suspicious symptoms, including a fever. They told her to not bother getting tested! They’re obviously doing this with lots of people.
Really, the numbers the sheeple are being given about this bug are crap. They are heavily biased toward worst case panic mongering, ignoring people for whom it turns out to be a nothingburger. It’s not that there isn’t an actual danger for older people or some people with other health conditions, but this is NOT the Spanish Influenza or Ebola.
All we needed to do is what Sweden is doing. Some social distancing and emphasis on good old fashioned flu/cold season hygiene and manners. Just enough to keep the bad cases from overrunning the emergency medical system in the hot spots. All else is disastrous overkill.
The bottom line is that there is no containing this common cold variant any more than any other common cold. It WILL run its course, quickly or slowly. So any notion of “eradicating” or “curing” this is just as fruitless as “curing the common cold”. Because this “is” a version of the cold.
Wonder what Dr Birx would say if she knew I don’t wear sunscreen?
No $hit
Yeah the Fauci/Birx hate is about as deranged at the Trump hate!
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