HnkrCrash wrote:I hope I am wrong too. Current mortality rate for homegrown cases is 30%. We also don’t have the ability to scale a response like China does. One fact missing from the 80% figure is the other 20%. Of those, 5% require artificial respiration, and the other 15% require concentrated oxygen. We do not have enough respirators, nor hospital beds to achieve this, nor will our populace submit to quarantine like the Chinese to snuff this out. We are at 100 cases domestically as I write this. I predict close to, if not over, 2,000 two weeks out (that’s if the CDC can even get the damn test kits out). This number is actually light compared to the rate of transmission in other countries that are only a few weeks ahead of us. Despite what the media is trying to tell you, this is nothing like influenza. Medical journals from other countries indicate there has never been a respiratory virus that has the ability to spread like this. Again, I hope all of these Drs, Epidemiologists, Virologists etc around the world are wrong, but it’s appearing more and more likely that’s not the case.
Two other outbreaks of Covid virus were more pathogenic. SARS in 2002 and another Corona virus in 2012 both in the Middle East. These were contained even though they were extremely contagious. Is there going to be a pandemic? Probably but the media does seem to be “hyping” this up however it does appear to be fatal in immune compromised patients just as most influenza is, right now I believe there have been around 17,000 fatalities from the current influenza strain, have to search to find that number as the media are pandering to the alarmists by showcasing Covid 19. Yes it is serious, wash your hands, cover your cough, eat well, exercise obviously don’t travel to high risk areas.