Anonymous wrote:OMG Breitbart. Talk about looking on the bright side! "Over 1,000 People Cured of Coronavirus in Italy"

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/11/over-1000-cured-coronavirus-italy/

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Anonymous wrote:Have any children died yet?

Gentle reminder that people ages 10-17 are children. So, yes. Definitely.

Where is your source?

136 children died of influenza just this season so far! My source: https://gis.cdc.gov/GRASP/Fluview/PedFluDeath.html

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Anonymous wrote:Have any children died yet?

Gentle reminder that people ages 10-17 are children. So, yes. Definitely.

Where is your source?

136 children died of influenza just this season so far! My source: https://gis.cdc.gov/GRASP/Fluview/PedFluDeath.html

Anonymous wrote:"The United States mounted a complex, multi-faceted and long-term response to the pandemic, summarized in The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic: Summary Highlights, April 2009-April 2010. On August 10, 2010, WHO declared an end to the global 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. However, (H1N1)pdm09 virus continues to circulate as a seasonal flu virus, and cause illness, hospitalization, and deaths worldwide every year."

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html

Anonymous wrote:So I get HIPPA but I'm wondering if it isn't time to lift some of that. I think people have a right to know who in their community is affected. They are relying on people who test positive to self report their locations and interactions which could be faulty. I'm not suggesting they are intentionally being untruthful but there could be mistakes. I would think in the interest of public health we would have more information about those who have tested positive.

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity, I pulled up the infection and death totals for H1N1 today. I was astonished to see how high they were. I don’t remember paying really any attention to that as a news story back in 2009. Was it covered less, somehow less scary, or am I just getting old and less cavalier?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a possibly stupid question for those of you who know how a virus works.

Let's say containment had been achieved way back at the beginning, whether contained to China or just a few people here in America.... does the virus then just completely die off? Or is it just allowing time for a vaccine?

I don't think it will ever be eradicated without ending all intl travel. But "flattening the curve" was achievable - and still might be. So yes I guess it's the latter. Buy time not just for a vaccine but also so that infrastructure can keep pace with the rate of seriously infected.

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Anonymous wrote:If China had masks then they need to share regardless of the political climate. It’s the least they can do for not being honest at the beginning.

They have shared a ton with Italy.

Anonymous wrote:If China had masks then they need to share regardless of the political climate. It’s the least they can do for not being honest at the beginning.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw Germany warned 2/3 of its population could get this. I’ve heard similarly high numbers for the US. That seems totally plausible to me, given that likely almost everyone has suffered from other coronaviruses like the flu or the common cold.

If the death rate on this thing comes down, say, all the way to 1%, that still seems like a crisis of Biblical proportions. 1% of half the world dying is 40 million people deaths—over half the number who died in WWII. Is that truly what we’re up against? Seems hard to fathom, but I guess I don’t know where the eject button from that scenario is

About a third of unvaccinated people in the US get the flu every year, and of course with half of people getting the flu shot the community spread is somewhat limited. So yeah, it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that north of 1/3 of people getting this is possible. If there are roughly 300 million people in the US, 1/3 is 100 million, and 1 percent is 1 million.

Anonymous wrote:I saw Germany warned 2/3 of its population could get this. I’ve heard similarly high numbers for the US. That seems totally plausible to me, given that likely almost everyone has suffered from other coronaviruses like the flu or the common cold.

If the death rate on this thing comes down, say, all the way to 1%, that still seems like a crisis of Biblical proportions. 1% of half the world dying is 40 million people deaths—over half the number who died in WWII. Is that truly what we’re up against? Seems hard to fathom, but I guess I don’t know where the eject button from that scenario is

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Anonymous wrote:Have any children died yet?

Gentle reminder that people ages 10-17 are children. So, yes. Definitely.