CDC: People Over 60, Stay Home as Much as Possible

Stay inside,
Wash your hands,
Talk to no one,
Avoid the keyboard,
Never pet a burning dog.
You will be fine.

 

I will enjoy my dinner.
“mortality rate is an awfully squishy number that’s being reported as if it’s a stone-cold fact. On Tuesday, a number of headlines trumpeted that the World Health Organization was saying the death rate was 3.4%. Some hand-wringing ensued over how this number was higher than the previous estimate of 2%.

Here’s what WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died.” Let’s zoom in on the word “reported.” The WHO puts out a daily situation report that you can find here. It defines confirmed as “a person with laboratory confirmation of COVID-19 infection.” As of Tuesday, the total number of deaths reported globally (3,112) as a fraction of the total number of confirmed cases reported globally (90,869) was 3.4%.

Here’s the problem, though. That denominator is laboratory-confirmedcases. As we know, in the U.S., it’s pretty hard to get tested right now. In fact, based on this definition, as of Wednesday night, the U.S. mortality rate based on CDC numbers — 9 reported deaths and 80 laboratory-confirmed cases — was 11%. You know that’s bogus. You know that’s because there’s not enough data, the denominator is pitifully small and we need to be testing a whole lot more people.”

 

The ones that are in mass panic mode and lost all form of reason.

 

Folks as old as you mom don't scare easy, much different generation. Bless her for living life.

 

How many humans are there, this is not going to be even a blip on the screen compared to the Black Death that wiped out much of Europe. Out of over seven billion humans will this even kill off half a billion. And those in modern countries we should do well.

 

Is that true? You stayed home for 37 years? Why?

 

I don't know which makes me feel better. A death rate of 0.6 % or knowing we have 7,000 more cases out there that we don't know about.
250,000 is still a lot of peeps.

To little to late. See above.
Not having the test work was a disaster bigger than Katrina.
But your doing a great job Whitie!

 

He is being facetious

 

I was thinking the same thing - there are probably 10 times more cases of corona virus infections than we know of. Judging from many reports, in most cases corona virus has symptoms of a mild case of flu or cold. That means there are millions of people out there who were/are sick and never knew about it because their symptoms were so moderate, they saw no point to go to a doctor.
I live in Illinois myself and had a very mild cold a week ago, I had mild symptoms for 2 days. I have no idea what exactly it was, but the symptoms were so mild, I didn’t go to a doctor or take any time off. It could have been a common cold or a corona virus, no one will ever know. Many viruses infect us very often and we never know about it. After all, a not very aggressive virus is the best survivor - if it doesn’t kill its hosts, and it gets to live on.

 

Testing provides data, but doesn't change any outcomes. There is no vaccine or treatment for coronavirus...so you kind of live or die if you get it whether you got tested or not.

CDC wanted to take time to develop a quality test, not just run a bunch of people through a drive-thru to collect samples then have inferior testing. The first test failed, but now we have a test going into the system about 2 months after the virus was discovered. That's record time, since our CDC/FDA are stringent on quality over speed.

 

WTH is a whitie?

Katrina was a Dem disaster, both at a state and city level.

And if your expecting unknown virus reaction to go perfectly your a bit of a dunce.

 

Containment was the only option. Without the test it was impossible to contain it.
In this case we got neither quality or speed.

 

Yet when Trump tried to contain it back in January, by restricting travel, leftists called him racist LOL

It's a hypocritical game of ping pong.

 

Whitie is Pence. He is Trump's version of Mike Brown of the Bush fiasco.

 

He's not burning yet. Can I pet him?

 

Having tests available on a mass scale has nothing to do with containment. Containment means stopping flights from countries with major outbreaks, starting with China. Next, screening people coming from those countries, and testing/isolating as necessary. Finally quarantining all of our citizens who we brought back from China and off the first cruise ship is "containment".

Now, as we find cases of community spread, we are tracing, interviewing, testing, and quarantining people who had contact with the person who tested positive.

Today, we are ready to test any American whose doctor suspects may have coronavirus.

 

Exactly! The test has no correlation to containment.

 

It wasn't having tests available on a mass scale that was the problem. It was having a reliable test that could be interpreted quickly.

Why did we only test 46 people on the cruise ship.

The Oregon State Public Health Laboratory is getting help in testing for the COVID-19 virus from private labs operating in the state. The state lab continues to test for COVID-19 in Oregon as well.
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20200307/coronavirus-updates-latest-news-for-saturday-march-7

The states came up with their own tests.

 

I bet there are some people on the cruise ship that will disagree with you.

 

They are birds of a feather. Clueless.

 

Well I'm not sure if they made a sequel to that Clueless movie from the 90s, but this one is getting one.

"Trump The Second Term"

I hear it's gonna be good too...

 

By the time Bloomberg gets done with Trump even an Alabama red neck won't vote for him.

 

No kidding.

Major ground operations in AZ, NC, and FL (+PA, WI, and MI).

Trump is in BIG Trouble.

 

Bloomer? Yeah....he really carried the day for himself dropping all that money...damn near got the nomination....oh wait...