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In reply to the discussion: Blumenthal after classified coronavirus briefing: "appalled and astonished by the inadequacy..." [View all]AllyCat
(16,189 posts)The number of recoveries are slow, with many of them sick now for weeks. In the time it takes those 46 to hopefully recover, how many new cases will start since our government is woefully unprepared to deal with the disease?
The flu is taken seriously here. We have massive vaccinations every fall and still people are getting sick. This is a new beast Jim Fields. We don't know what we are dealing with and our predictions of how it is transmitted are not holding up as there is a new de novo case in Italy that had NO CONTACT with an infected person or travel to China...and look how many are sick there? Iran has a 15% death rate, way higher than the 2-3% every where else.
It is not adequate to hope those 46 people just recover and then it is gone.
This is an interesting site to track the disease. I've watched it for weeks and the one case in my area is STILL sick on home quarantine.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
We can concentrate on the flu AND this at the same time.