US health officials believe 20 million Americans have had coronavirus

AP via WCVB ^ | Jun 25, 2020 | ZEKE MILLER and MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press

[zaxtres]

When you wish upon the second star to the right.....

[zaxtres]

NO! I won’t be taking any immunization until they force it down my throat, and I don’t give a dam about any prior Supreme Court ruling.

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They won’t have to force it down your throat. It will sprayed up into your lovely nostrils.

[zaxtres]

Remember it is the reopening of communities that are to blame for this. Those are not the riots you are looking for (Jedi hand wave). Oh almost forgot, the Trump rally is also to blame.

Beaches are closed in Florida. But yippy yippy ky-yay Strip clubs are open! Didn’t hear about lap dances though. Bummer strikes again.

[Grampa Dave]

I got sick at many levels* on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

*Lower GI issues, blood in urine, upper respiratory problems, body ache from head to toe, severe headache, mild temps, zero appetite/nothing looked good or smelled good. We have several excellent to great cooks and one former chef in our family. Thanksgiving is normally an incredible feast in our 3 family gathering. Again nothing smelled good nor looked good to me,and my appetite was basically zero.

[MAGAthon]

and to think it could have been 60 million! lol:

5 Jun: NewsMedical.netLong-term care facilities are a major driver of total COVID-19 deaths
Shutdown orders prevented about 60 million novel coronavirus infections in the United States and 285 million in China, according to a research study published Monday that examined how stay-at-home orders and other restrictions limited the spread of the contagion.

A separate study from epidemiologists at Imperial College London estimated the shutdowns saved about 3.1 million lives in 11 European countries, including 500,000 in the United Kingdom, and dropped infection rates by an average of 82 percent, sufficient to drive the contagion well below epidemic levels.
The two reports, published simultaneously Monday in the journal Nature, used completely different methods to reach similar conclusions...

Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Health Security, said in an email that these new reports show the effectiveness of shutdowns...
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200605/Long-term-care-facilities-are-a-major-driver-of-total-COVID-19-deaths.aspx

[Wuli]

If true, it shows how the Wuhan Virus is far less of the mass killer it is portrayed as, and those 20 million represent a larger than previously known level of possible herd immunity.

We need to seriously QUIT looking at “numbers of cases”. The only focus of public concern should be on deaths and hospitalizations. The rest is taking place with the mass of those infected having passed some asymptomatic or mild illness phase before ridding themselves of the virus.