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Channel 4 News ✔@Channel4News
"This is the most frightening disease I've ever encountered in my career."
Richard Hatchett, the doctor leading efforts to find a vaccine for coronavirus, says it is much more lethal than normal flu.
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1:24 PM - Mar 6, 2020
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GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)most terrifying....
AllTooEasy
(1,260 posts)...you are far less likely to be anywhere near a black hole anytime soon.
As far as we can tell
The Coronavirus combination of lethality and contagiousness makes it more frightening than Ebola.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)Hyperbole much?
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)if he clarified it in the video, I retract my retort.
elias7
(3,976 posts)Why not watch the vid, get some context, and then if you realize your response was a little hasty, actually retract your post?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)He's saying exactly what we have known for years about Ebola, HIV, SARS and MERS then he compares it to SARS-CoV2.
volstork
(5,394 posts)There is NOTHING hyperbolic in his statement. His fear is the ease of communicability.
RAB910
(3,445 posts)we always planned and hoped that we would have weapons to fight it (like treatment or vaccine)
This is literally the worse case scenerio
iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I hope more people watch this video.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)millions of Americans die in the coming months, There are 2 things I do know for sure, our economy will collapse and all faith in government will collapse.
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)That's a fatality rate of 0.07%
Covid 19 has a fatality rate so far, of 4% and seems to be spreading at least as fast as the regular everyday flu.
If 34 Million Americans get Covid 19 - at 4% fatality rate - 1,360,000 Americans will die. - vs 20000 for regular flu. Add in all the people who survive but will need hospital care. Add in the need for cold and flu products needed to treat at home for people sick of milder symptoms.
This is the reason for the panic. Our medical system isn't set up to handle this. Add on top of that nearly all the disposables used in hospitals are made in China. If the Chinese need them, do you think we'll get our shipments?
TheRickles
(2,000 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)TheRickles
(2,000 posts)Thanks for the link. However, this reports flu-like illnesses - where symptoms match the flu but definitive diagnostic blood tests are not done. It's a very high number, to be sure, though many/most could actually be bad colds. The data isn't clear enough to say for sure, because the flu is not a reportable illness in the US. The wide range of possible cases (almost 50%) shows how iffy these stats are.
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)Enjoy your stay.
dflprincess
(28,057 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 7, 2020, 03:38 PM - Edit history (1)
We have no idea how many people have had milder cases that they never sought medical help for or how many who were misdiagnosed and survived.
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)The milder cases are important only in so far as how far and fast Covid 19 is moving in and out of the local population at any given moment. It's the rate at which people need advanced medical care, or die that I think is more critical.
With a fatality rate of 8-10 times that of the regular flu, the risk to a breakdown of the medical care system and medical workers is of concern. What happens when ICU is so full of Covid patients they can't handle a heart attack patient? It's the domino effect.
That's why they are hammering us with new about Covid. If they can get us to protect ourselves, then it slows the spread - gives the medical delivery system the ability to deal with this in a better flow instead of being bombed with patients.
This is just my own take on it... Just rolling around all the info out there in my head...
Doing everything we can to not get sick no only protects us personally but also keeps us from being a transmitter even if we don't get sick.
sop
(9,946 posts)You know, because everything Trump touches dies.
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)gibraltar72
(7,486 posts)paleotn
(17,781 posts)But the most frightening disease he's ever encountered? Apparently, he doesn't get out much. CDC and USAMRID have a whole cornucopia of pathogens far more lethal.