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The coronavirus outbreak in the United States continues to shape up like a somewhat worse than normal case of the flu as a recent report outlines the current likely death rate to be well below earlier estimates – just 0.66%. And as more people get tested and more are allowed to be given the drug touted weeks earlier by President Trump, hydroxychloroquine, that figure is set to fall even further.
Now that we know the death rate is much lower than previously thought, can we please stop all the crazy hysteria? And can we please re-open all of our businesses and get the economy going again so we don't enter into another great depression?
It's now pushing closer to 2%
I'm still fully sure that it will end up being more like .05% as the confirmed cases skyrocket and the deaths level off. The new 5 minute test from Abbott Labs is supposed to roll out tomorrow. That will be a game changer.
How is that any different than the existing state mandates? Half are teethless in general as it is.
We are never going to do in this country what China and Italy were able to do, which is a complete lock down once they realized what was happening. We won't do that here, we'll "suggest" people stay home. Pretty please with sugar on top? We see how well that's working.
That's why this is going to be so much worse and go on for so much longer here in the States. We lack the will to do what needs to be done.
We are never going to do in this country what China and Italy were able to do, which is a complete lock down once they realized what was happening. We won't do that here, we'll "suggest" people stay home. Pretty please with sugar on top? We see how well that's working.
That's why this is going to be so much worse and go on for so much longer here in the States. We lack the will to do what needs to be done.
Well part of it is we are a free society with individual freedoms that must be respected and weighed against the greater societal good. That is a good thing imo.
Your guess is as good as any. We'll know more in about 6 weeks. Anything we say now is just playing with numbers. Let's start a pool. I'll put a buck on 1 million deaths by September 1.
It's a guess based on other data sets and the latest Imperial College projections. So yeah, I'd bet quite a bit more than a buck against a million deaths.
Antibody tests will transform projections into much, much more solid data sets.
If anything, this pandemic has shown that private enterprise is much more creative, nimble, efficient, and price-conscious when it comes to problem solving than government will ever be. And capitalism is the ideology that makes this possible.
This is a truth leftists will try and steer people away from.
Efficient? Quest labs has said that they currently have a backlog of over 160,000 tests to process and that number goes up every day.
At this moment you have no way of knowing. Watching numbers from European countries, the column of recovered still shows a small portion of overall numbers, meaning most cases are active ones.
US growth of infected was massive from 1st to 26th. Starting with 89 on March 1, it doubled after every two or three days, until it reached 84000+ on March 26, then it slowed down. Now it takes 4 days for it to double. You can only hope this trend is going to slow down further. However, I am skeptical even about it.
This virus is a sneaky bastard. People already think that there are couple of times more cases than the statistics say. Hence many folks must have it as we speak and have no idea about it. The other thing is that a lot of people behave like those idiots in Florida and Lousiana, congregating in larger and smaller groups for church or whatnot.
Another thing doesn't help at all - there is a number of people, even here, who still maintain this is a nothingburger and are worried sick about the economy. You can rebuild the economy, but you can do jack **** about lives already lost.
Of course if he had locked down the country on Jan 31st it would have saved lives. Who would have agreed?
Trump did say some stupid things but his actions have mostly helped.
Whose has blood on their hands in these other countries?
Does the paper also call out Govenor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio?
Deaths per million NYC 136. NY State 100, California 4.75.
Death rate per 1,000,000 by country as of April 1st.
Italy 206
Spain 194
Belgium 71
Netherlands 69
France 54
Switzerland 53
United Kingdom 35
Sweden 24
Portugal 18
Denmark 18
Austria 16 United States 12
Germany 10
Norway 8
South Korea 3
Japan .5
Except that it is not correct to look at the data this way. Unless you do it after it is completely over.
Millions of Fox News viewers refused to take this virus seriously for WEEKS as they downplayed it.
Thousands of those Fox News viewers will die for that partisan 'loyalty', having contracted the virus unnecessarily.
Why list Fox, like the few CNN or MSNBC viewers that they have didn't take this seriously. From what I see in many other threads here, it is more the liberal types that tend to downplay the virus impact and want to open things up.
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