Yes … someone who was in very poor health prior to being infected.
“The patient was a man in his 50s who had “significant, chronic, underlying health conditions,” said Jeff Duchin, health officer for Seattle and King counties, during a CDC press briefing.”
In the mean time " Seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year."
So what? I’m almost 73. Don’t talk to me about not being at high risk of dying from the flu. I may be at less chance of dying from the seasonal flu than from coronavirus, but my chances of catching it are orders of magnitude greater.
We don’t actually know what your chances of catching it are… and I certainly hope they are not high.
The mortality is 20x that of the flu is based on numbers from Wuhan. Flu mortality is .1% of cases. Different Wuhan figures set the mortality rate at 2% (the 20x figure) or 3%. From an epidemiological perspective those figures are worrying. The 1918 flu pandemic had a mortality rate of 2% and that totally overwhelmed the health system.
Now the system is different today, but the US remains there only industrialized country without universal health coverage and I would be more at ease if the coronavirus response was focused on assuring all health professionals had protective gear and sufficient testing was available at minimal cost. These are effect steps in preventing a pandemic. Complaining about media coverage is not an effective step.
I have and yes it’s plain that the tweet was a lie and you people are simply repeating the lie.
“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. We did one of the great jobs, you say ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa.”
Trump continued: “One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia. That didnt work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost, it’s all turning. Think of it, and this is their new hoax.’”
He never said the virus is a hoax, you swallowed a lie hook, line, and sinker and just repeat it like a parrot.