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https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/31/health/washington-coronavirus-study-nejm/index.htmlI feel like this information from US doctors is already more than anything from China to date. 10,000 already dead in the US so far this season from the regular flu by the way. Yet no one cares about that.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
I bet if you look at a cross-section of that 10,000, you’re going to see a shiite ton of candles on the birthday cakes and a whole slew of other complicating diseases... not a bunch of otherwise healthy 30 and 40-somethings.
Looking at US flu deaths from the 2017-18 flu season:Age 0-4: 115Age 5-17: 528Age 18-49: 2,803Age 50-64: 6,751Age 65+: 50,903I’m going to go out on a limb and say these numbers are higher for the regular flu in China. So far the youngest (known) deaths with the coronavirus are a 36 year old and a 48 year old. Both of which are in China.So far the fatality rate of the regular flu in the US is around 0.7%. The (known) fatality rate of the coronavirus in China is slightly over 2%.I’m curious to see what the fatality rate outside China is with a larger sample size but I’m going to guess it will be lower than China’s and closer to that standard flu rate.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/health/washington-coronavirus-study-nejm/index.html (CNN)Doctors have shared new details about the first case of Wuhan coronavirus in the United States in a paper published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.In the new report, doctors describe how the man progressed from initially mild, nonspecific symptoms to pneumonia on the ninth day of his illness.Top US infectious disease doctor says Wuhan coronavirus can spread even when people have no symptoms'There's no doubt': Top US infectious disease doctor says Wuhan coronavirus can spread even when people have no symptomsThe patient -- a 35-year-old resident of Snohomish County, Washington, with no history of major health problems -- had returned from visiting family in Wuhan on January 15. He had not visited the seafood market where a number of early patients were initially linked, nor did he have any known contacts with sick people during his visit.Still, the man had seen a health alert by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and decided to visit an urgent care clinic on January 19, at which point he had been coughing for four days. Emphasis mine. The problem in the USA is that we have a culture of just fighting through illnesses and continuing to go to work or school. We also have a culture of overreaction. I hope people can moderate their behavior if there is an uptick in cases... and I suspect there will be.
If governments with actual data thought the way you did there wouldn't be closed borders in the East, and airlines would still be flying to China.Influenza is no joke, and neither is this.The real of the situation is that we don't know enough (collectively) about the Coronavirus to be taking anything but extreme caution. Not to mention, the possibility of mutations, or the ability to possibly become reinfected.
BS. Fear-mongering at its finest. I bet you vaccinate too.
We also have a culture where a trip to the doctor or ER will bankrupt you, so many will avoid any treatment. They will also attend work/school, because many can be fired for missing work once.
It is clearly sarcasm
I don't vaccinate for myself, I vaccinate for others.https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.htmlTower seems to think you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell. There are a lot of people that think that when they are "sick" it is the flu. When it really should be referred to as a cold. If you've been sick for a day or been feeling 'bad' for a couple of days, that isn't influenza. And honestly, confusing the common cold with influenza is something we need to change in the US.
My wife is a pediatric nurse and we were just talking about this yesterday.Just this past week, a kid who had been perfectly healthy died from the flu. Not some fancy super-virus, but the flu. Amazing that could happen in 2020.
This. OMG, This. I can’t tell you how many people I know who toss around the word ‘flu’ as a catch-all term like southerners do with “Coke”. The flu is influenza. Not a cold, not PMS, not the sniffles, not a stomach bug. (That’s right... the stomach flu is not influenza.)I blame whoever came up with that Thera-Flu crap.
This is a really interesting post on the statistics, from someone inside the field studying this coronavirus..https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/exe552/coronavirus_faq_misconceptions_information_from_a/