Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Waiting for Dr. Hannity to chime in........

 

If you read, rather than spout garbage, you would see that the infection mortality rate for 60-69 is 2.2%.

 

The death rate for those between 60 and 69 is 3.6%.
Coronavirus Death Rates By Age According To Charts From A Chinese Study

 

2.2% according to the paper that I attached above. Of course, the samples are likely different.

 

Did you read that f'n thing?

So we've got to keep this crazy shit up for the next 18 months? Is that from the onion?

 

I included the article in my post. It used a Chinese study.

 

It depends on how long a vaccine takes. But yes, it is possible we do.

 

No, it is from experts who have devoted their lives to studying the spread of diseases analyzing the data. What is your background in epidemiology?

 

Yep. That’s the paper that is why you see a sea change in the UK and US policy.

Pandemics suck.

 

Spouting garbage is all the "it's no big deal" crowd has left.

 

He got a cold once and it wasn't that bad.

 

So were just going to shut the world down for 18 months or more? You need to put the crack pipe down.

 

Unpleasant things aren't untrue because they are unpleasant. I guess the other option is millions of deaths.

 

How about some perspective. In a country of 330 million, under best case scenarios, if just 20% get sick, and only .9% die, that's still 600,000 dead. But with 0% immunity, chances are more than 20% will be infected if we do nothing. And the .9% mortality rate is from S. Korea, where they have been very aggressive with testing and isolation. Do nothing, and the mortality rate is likely closer to 2% to 3% like they had in China and Italy.

 

With 9.3% mortality among those above 80 that are infected. That is a horrifying number if you have anyone in that age group you care about. Horrifying.

 

This stat is pretty important too. US is on average a pretty young country which bodes well. 61st in median age.

China is where the outbreak started. Hard to apply their stats. They had a whole province exposed before they knew it existed.

Median Age / Countries of the World

I didn’t realize how old much of Europe is. Italy Germany and France especially

 

Not 18 months. 18 months until a vaccine is ready. Given what we are doing now, 3 months for peak rates.

 

My Grandpa is almost 80, has a history of heart attacks, has diabetes, and is overweight. They still aren't taking it seriously due to what their favorite news network was telling them up until this week.

 

Go back and read that article.

 

for some more perspective, 600,000 americans died in the civil war