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1. The number of cases in China is already falling. Where once the graph of coronavirus cases in China showed an exponential climb, it has now leveled off substantially. Just three weeks ago, China was recording more than 3,000 new cases per day. Officials are now consistently reporting fewer than five hundred, with the number still dropping. Seeing much-improved conditions on the ground, big companies like Starbucks and Apple in China are resuming business activities. The latest (Feb. 28th) World Health Organization (WHO) situation report revealed just 318 new cases in China in the previous 24 hours.

Response:China reduced their "exponential" climb by mainly it appears by quarantining entire cities and shutting down entire companies, they are an authoritarian state,, our citizens likely will not accept that solution, at least some


2. The vast majority of cases are mild, and the death rate is likely lower than reported. A large study of 72,000 confirmed COVID-19 patients in China found that 81% of cases were mild, another 14% were severe (characterized by difficulty breathing), and 5% were critical. Overall, the death rate was 2.3 percent. More recently, the WHO reported a death rate of 3.8% in China, but noted that it is rapidly falling as standards of care quickly improve. Early on, the city of Wuhan (where the disease originated) was inundated with patients and hospitals could not provide proper care due to overwhelming demand. For Chinese patients whose symptoms started after February 1st, the death rate is just 0.7 percent. (For comparison, the U.S. death rate from 2019-20's annual flu oubtreak is between .06 percent to 0.1 percent. SARS a similar virus to COVID-19, had a death rate of 9.6 percent.) The death rate could be even lower, as very mild cases of COVID-19 that resemble a common cold likely go unreported.

Response: The mild cases are the problem, most here will not self report/quarantine/etc for many reasons ( read other thread on public coughers), and just spread the disease. I don't know how many feel, but killing off our elders ought to be something more then just a statistic.

3. Only one out of every 1,000 people in Hubei Province has contracted the coronavirus. There have been 65,914 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China's Hubei Province, where the outbreak began in December. That sounds like a lot, but keep in mind that the population of Hubei is 59,170,000. The province is slightly smaller than Nebraska, but with thirty times as many inhabitants. With this sort of population density, it's a positive sign that just .11% (roughly 1 in 1000) of the population has caught COVID-19. Even if there were 53,000 unreported cases, that would mean only one out of every 500 people in Hubei caught the virus. Given the population density in most other countries is significantly lower than in China, we can expect that the coronavirus will have a much harder time spreading in much of the world.

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4. There have been no reported deaths in young children. Though the outbreak has endured for more than nine weeks, there still have been no fatalities in children under the age of nine, with almost all infected simply experiencing cold-like symptoms. Moreover, only 2.4% of cases are in individuals under the age of 18. Kids and teenagers have been surprisingly resistant to the virus.

The death rate for people aged 10 to 39 currently stands at just 0.2 percent. Those genuinely at risk from COVID-19 are the elderly. People aged 80 and up have a 14.8% to 21.9% chance of dying if infected.

Response: OK kids should not panic

5. The world already survived another pandemic just ten years ago. Remember H1N1, more commonly known as Swine Flu? This was the most recent pandemic (besides HIV/AIDS, which is still considered a pandemic). It began in early 2009 and lasted through late 2010. Between April 2009 and April 2010, there were approximately 60.8 million cases, 274,304 hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths in the United States alone! Globally, it likely infected between 700 million and 1.4 billion people, resulting in 150,000 to 575,000 fatalities. While this loss of life was tragic, more than a decade later, many scarcely remember Swine Flu. The same will hopefully happen with COVID-19.

Response: "hopefully"? Is that scientific?

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People dying in backwards, third world countries is really not relevant to normal people in the USA. The difference in health, nutrition, prevention and healthcare is worlds apart. China, Iran, Africa, etc.? Not even close. Control the borders and we will be fine.

There have always been and still are many things much more likely to kill you when you walk out your door than this. How many people die from the flu every winter without plunging the nation into a panic? I just take normal precautions - avoid crowds, wash your hands and use a hand sanitizer, plenty of fluids and D3,


“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”

― Rahm Emanuel

You have to consider the agenda of the people who are telling us the sky is falling. There are people everywhere who will create or exploit a crisis in order to elevate themselves by claiming to know all about how to fix it as only they are able.

Another example of the media creating news instead of reporting facts. There's over 18000 flu deaths this season in the US and it doesn't make the news. How many worldwide?

I’ll never understand the anti media trend. They report on things that happen out there and then you decide. I hear Updates of numbers of flu cases weekly and I tend to avoid the news.

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Red

In my life I have survived the Multiple
Swine flu scares,
Bird Flu Scares,
Legion-ares disease scare (before they knew the cause, everyone panicked)
Eboli,
Ecoli,
Influenza - A
Influenza - B
Eating at Chipotle.
AIDS/HIV

Nothing gets the money flowing like a good scare. Research Scientists, Medical Professionals, and Politicians all know this all too well.

YES there is a lot of over hype about this.
and in my opinion i will try to avoid this if i can thru common sense methods and live my life as planned.

there is some basis to be concerned.
The World Health Organization announced on Tuesday that the global death rate of the disease caused by the new coronavirus was 3.4%.

the death rate of regular flu is 0.1%