Doc Fauci come on the news minutes ago ... there might be 100 to 200 THOUSAND deaths in the USA in the end !

Doc Fauci come on the news minutes ago ... there might be 100 to 200 THOUSAND deaths in the USA in the end !

Doc Fauci come on the news minutes ago ... there might be 100 to 200 THOUSAND deaths in the USA in the end !

Easy, I don't see that being a problem. The majority of are cases are either unaccounted for or just getting started. 2 weeks from now, hospitals across the Nation will look like war-zones.

Italy's mortality rate is over 10% at this point, seasonal flu is 0.1%.

If that's what you took from my comments, then you fail at reading comprehension.

The reason our population is particularly vulnerable, is half the population is diabetic or pre diabetic. Being fat/obese isn't being address as a pre-existing condition. When they say a healthy adult has it and is on a vent, look at them. In the long term, the things I talked about would be the best preventative. In the mean time, healthy people that aren't fat, don't have the other pre existing conditions or vulnerable partners at home, should be allowed to continue with work.

Over 90% of Italy's deaths, according to their own government, had MULTIPLE co-morbidities. If I get shot in the stomach and stung by a bee, saying I got killed by the bee isn't correct. It's not to downplay, but there is nothing to suggest the death rate is anywhere near 10%.

Yep and President Trump extended everything till the end of April at least. Better safe than sorry.

iirc he's the pathologist that been involved in several high profile cases involving investigating dead people cause of death.
I'd think it best to let the experts that investigate infectious diseases figure out how it's transmitted.

No sweetheart, the lungs don't get "blocked" and people are not suffocating. Clearly your mind was elsewhere during pulmonology class in med school.

In any event, what happens to the lungs during a respiratory illness like this is their function becomes reduced or non-existent, caused by whatever complications result from being infected with a virus that has no cure. If the lungs are sick, so is the person who owns them. This is why you hear so much about people being at more at risk with those nasty pre-existing conditions like emphysema, etc. Capiche?

Also, a ventilator essentially DOES THE BREATHING FOR YOU. I know this because my kid's been on one a bunch of times. "Coming off the vent" is a big deal in the recovery process becuase that means the patient is breathing on their own without help.

Now ... Mark Levin on the Cv and stimulus

" obesity [8%]"

I couldn't find that statistic in the link, and seems very low, unless it's from 1933?

All to mean to me, nearly everyone over 65 is likely in the high risk group.

Goody, all valid points. Another thing to consider is is the effects to lungs, previously damaged or not, can leave long lasting effects. This applies to young and old alike. Research in the UK suggests the lungs of coronavirus survivors could return to "apparently normal" after six months with minimal issues — like a weakened ability to exercise — those who go on to develop ARDS could "take as long as 15 years for their lungs to recover," according to FIMC (Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine the UK's professional body for intensive care doctors and practitioners). Surely, that is one research body's study. Others have suggested low oxygen levels experienced in CV19 patients blood causes other effects on organs and brain tissue. Remember it takes many days to a couple weeks to recover.
In it's current form the virus tends to effect infirm people the most. Mutations can occur when there are large numbers of people contracting the disease, and also as the virus begins to taper off from it's peak when it goes through genetic change within itself to proliferate again.

" obesity [8%]"

I couldn't find that statistic in the link, and seems very low, unless it's from 1933?

All to mean to me, nearly everyone over 65 is likely in the high risk group.