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berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts) Mon Mar 2, 2020, 06:55 PM Mar 2020

At the beginning of last week there were around 10 cases of COVID-19 in US

Now there are over 100.

By this time next week there will be more than 1000 in the US. And before the end of the month 10s if thousands.

And that presumes we can contain it as well as China did. I’m not hopeful that will happen.

This is a matter of weathering the disease. CDC says a vaccine won’t be available for about a year. So therapeutics is the only treatment and keeping those who are impacted the most severely alive.

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At the beginning of last week there were around 10 cases of COVID-19 in US (Original Post) berni_mccoy Mar 2020 OP

That would be correct... lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #1

Not at all out of the question, especially as testing protocols are rolled out. Mike 03 Mar 2020 #2

Just remember bdamomma Mar 2020 #3

I said it was game over when we found out that people are highly contagious while asymptomatic. Girard442 Mar 2020 #4

The important thing is that we avoid hyperbole SiliconValley_Dem Mar 2020 #6

good lord obamanut2012 Mar 2020 #7

You need to add the word "known", sprinkled liberally. Igel Mar 2020 #5

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)

1. That would be correct...

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 06:58 PM

Mar 2020

I hope some of the information about old malaria drugs being effective treatment turn out to be correct. That would be a bit of good news.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)

2. Not at all out of the question, especially as testing protocols are rolled out.

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 06:58 PM

Mar 2020

(And I mean, tests that yield correct results, not the flawed tests in circulation.)

It's very worrisome indeed. I don't think this prediction is at all far-fetched.

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)

3. Just remember

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 07:07 PM

Mar 2020

we have an inept government, who does not care about the well being of Americans. Plus we have a very sick SOB in the WH, who referred to those troops who were involved in the attack in Iran as having just headaches, and now they are suffering with Traumatic Brain Injury.

Stick with your local State officials.

Girard442

(6,075 posts)

4. I said it was game over when we found out that people are highly contagious while asymptomatic.

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 07:09 PM

Mar 2020

All attempts to screen people by looking for symptoms were mostly theater. It's going to spread through the whole population. Basically we can try to slow the spread while hoping for vaccines and treat as many infected people as well as we can.

Maybe we can get through this in a way that the country doesn't collapse into civil war and fascism while struggling to cope with disease.

SiliconValley_Dem

(1,656 posts)

6. The important thing is that we avoid hyperbole

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:28 PM

Mar 2020

obamanut2012

(26,079 posts)

7. good lord

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:37 PM

Mar 2020

Igel

(35,317 posts)

5. You need to add the word "known", sprinkled liberally.

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:25 PM

Mar 2020

When the S. Koreans tested a lot of folk that might have been infected, they found hundreds with the virus but no symptoms. (And many without the virus--but they couldn't tell if any of those folk had had it and then recovered).

If they hadn't tested the whole group nobody would ever have tested them.

After all, what public health testing protocol says, "Test those suffering from symptoms, as well as those who have no symptoms"?

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