He actually said, “243 adult ICU beds that are available”. That means that the rest are all currently being utilized for typical reasons. ICU bed utilization rate normally runs very high versus overall capacity percentage wise. There is no scenario in which life goes back to normal on May 15, 2020. ...

First 3 cases of community spread in Minnesota confirmed a few minutes ago. We are off to the races now with no slowing down, nor end in sight. See you all on the other side...one way or another.

Rolled over 2,000 cases domestically a whole 3 days earlier than I had predicted and screaming towards 3,000, 4,000, etc.

This is real, it’s only going to get worse, please take it seriously. Italy is F’d and we are just a few days behind them.

Not a doctor.

Did graduate college with a Bachelor’s of Science in Public Health with an emphasis on Epidemiology though.

No big deal, just like the flu... “Frankly, I don’t know for how long the health system can cope, I don’t even want to think about how it could end,” Massimo Galli, head of the department for infectious diseases at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, told the Financial Times. “We are holding up, but other ...

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Hmmm...you think maybe the government knows something about this virus that they aren’t telling us?

Comparing to China is not apples to apples. Italy needs to be the focus of a reasonable comparison. Current mortality rate is 6% and their healthcare infrastructure is on the verge of collapse which will only increase it more. Italy, nor the US has the ability to scale a response like China did. Chi...

The logic behind the estimated death rate is that this figure is: A. Conservative B. The virus was initially thought to only be droplet transmissible C. Italy is seeing an alarming number of affected individuals in the 40 something age range, and these are severe cases. This IS NOT only an old perso...

• the virus is airborne • recent studies put it at 1000 times more virulent than influenza, and it spreads easier • it’s not going away for months, or perhaps well over a year, at which point it will finally stop because there will be essentially no one else to infect • our healthcare system will be...

Listen to the U’s own Dr. Michael Osterholm on Rogan. The vast majority of people in this country have no idea what’s about to transpire and refuse to accept how bad this is going to be.