smlobx
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‘We can agree to disagree as we obviously have different opinions. My first job after getting my Masters degree was conducting biological research at UTMB and teaching physiology to first year medical students so I have some knowledge about the body works as I’m sure you do.sorry your statement of “This plus the fact that we have THE BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD... means that unless you are over 60 and/or have underlying respiratory/health conditions YOU WILL BE FINE...” is simply not true.
It’s about the amount of patients we could have at one time, not about how good our care is.
Your statement about survivor rate may be true, but that just means the estimated infected is higher, which is mostly irrelevant because we only care about people who are unable to get the proper care and die from it. Death rates are real numbers to look at and only time will tell with that. Hopefully the US and world comes out on this okay.
The point of my comment was we need to put this into perspective and that the “hysteria promulgated by the media” is BS. As a way to put this into perspective do you know how many people die if the regular flu every year and why is it there is no mass hysteria about it??? Here’s the current status on the situation in the US that is still evolving...
“....While everyone is in a panic about the coronavirus (officially renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization), there's an even deadlier virus many people are forgetting about: the flu.
Flu season is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000.
The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus....”
https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year
as I write this we have 3813 reported cases and 69 deaths .
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Now, could more people die of Covid-19 than the regular flu and the answer is yes. This is because there is currently no vaccine available yet, BUT there will be one, hopefully in a few months. Also most researchers are confident that as the weather warms the cases of Covid-19 will subside. This means we have a couple of months until we are over the hump IMHO. With the “social distancing” being preached and hopefully practiced I believe that the number will actually be lower..
EDIT: It has just been announced that Moderna, Inc. is starting human testing on a vaccine that Dr. Anthony Fauci is very excited about. The initial test will be on 40 patients and if all goes well it will be rolled out in 3-4 months...Let’s keep our fingers crossed!
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