*On Assignment with Richard Engel MSNBC now.

[elleng]

At a time of global uncertainty, award-winning NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel draws on his twenty-year experience of original reporting in the field to host a special series providing in-depth reporting and interviews in key theatres across the world.

Corona virus

Hong Kong and Washington DC

[Dream Girl]

1. We call him Richard "Deathwish" Engel

Seems he has a penchant for danger

[2naSalit]

2. It seems to be

an sort of addiction to adrenaline that is common in war correspondents. I know a few and they are fearless and a little scary at times.

[sarcasmo]

5. Adrenaline Junkie

[cwydro]

9. He's a reporter, for crying out loud.

We owe a lot to those willing to go into danger to bring us uncensored news.

[Coventina]

3. Is this the same Richard Engel that was tweeting that coronavirus was no big deal

about a week ago?

[elleng]

4. I didn't hear that.

[Coventina]

6. There was a thread in GD with his tweet. n/t

[davekriss]

7. That's not exactly what he said

On Twitter, he was kinda going the glass half empty or half full mode. He reminded his audience that 98% of people contracting the virus will be just fine. That’s not the same as saying “no big deal”.

Right now the death rate is about 3.5% globally, but some epidemiologists and other scientists have stated that, after better estimates can be made of milder cases (that don’t seek clinical remedy), the rate may look like 2% or lower. (It’s late or I’d find cites, but Dr. Fauci is one of them.)

[Coventina]

8. Define "just fine". On NPR today they were reporting that pneumonia, one of the common

developments of the virus, is not considered "seriously ill," by the CDC.

Which is just insanity.

They are redefining things to keep numbers artificially low.