You’re wrong. This virus has already killed more people than SARS have now exceeded those of SARS as was reported a week or more ago.
The smart money right now says we’ll see a global slowdown if not retraction starting probably in the 3rd quarter as a result of this virus and it’s impact on global manufacturing.
The impact of the Wuhan CV is already greater than that of ether SARS or MERS.
Hmmm…mortality vs mortality rate. Read again.
So now total numbers matter? Again, might want to check seasonal flu if that’s the only statistic of importance.
We can treat the flu and stop it dead in it’s tracks now with several prescription med’s as long as the patient properly identifies the symptoms and gets to a doc.
We’re barely 3 months into the first outbreak of this CV and have no idea yet what the actual rates are going to look like because China is not providing reliable numbers and there is no similar treatment for it.
You’re misinformed if you think we have a medicine which can stop flu “dead in it’s tracks.” That is complete and total BS. It’s dangerous to think we have some magic medication to stop the flu.
This season alone, over 14,000 Americans have died of the flu. That’s 7 times the amount who have died of the coronavirus. Would you like to tell their families there was a magic drug that could have saved them?
It’s not “magic”.
If you get in early they are as much as 90% effective and you will be over it within four days.
Those dying of the flu in the US are those who are already extremely sick and usually immune compromised before they ever get treatment.
LOL. WebMD. You’re an expert now! Maybe read a Cochrane review? A meta-analysis or two? Nah, why bother. (In their defense, your made up “90% effective and over it within 4 days” is nowhere to be seen on WebMD.)
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. I have plenty of patients who use websites, talk radio and social media to become “experts.” The sad thing is, science doesn’t give a pass to the misinformed. They get sick just like everyone else. I take that back, they end up a whole lot sicker. To each their own.
I just wish they’d keep it to themselves. If you want to get sick or killed through your own devices, more power to you. Spreading bad information that could get someone else sick or killed because they believe you? Different story.
Patients? Are you now claiming to be a doctor?
I’m not spreading anything but well understood fact here.
I’m not claiming. I am a doctor. The whole medical school and MD behind my name. It’s not anything that hasn’t been discussed on here before.
Then you know better.
When used for treatment, antiviral drugs can lessen symptoms and shorten the time you are sick by 1 or 2 days. They also can prevent serious flu complications, like pneumonia. For people at high risk of serious flu complications, treatment with antiviral drugs can mean the difference between milder or more serious illness possibly resulting in a hospital stay. CDC recommends prompt treatment for people who have influenza infection or suspected influenza infection and who are at high risk of serious flu complications.
Cochrane review. 2014. The gold standard in the medical field. What did it show? No decrease in hospitalizations, complications or mortality. Additional meta-analyses since then show that complications are more likely than disease reduction in those most severely affected.
One single non-review study showed that in otherwise healthy individuals, taking an antiviral within 1-2 days of symptoms may reduce symptoms by one day. That’s it. That’s the magic. Reducing 2 weeks of symptoms by a day in people who are the most likely to do fine on their own.
Look at the overall mortality from the flu since 2000. It’s decreased by 3.8%. No magic there. 20 years and no drugs to stop flu in it’s tracks. The only reason we’ve gotten that meager reduction is because vaccination rates have gone from less than 20% to around 45%.
I don’t expect to change your mind. Just hoping others won’t hurt themselves by believing what you’ve said. You can think anything you want.
That just means it is more virulent, not that it’s more deadly. In terms of total eventual deaths that is of great concern, but it’s certainly no Ebola. However, you are right, because China is a major player in the world market, the intensity of the containment effort is having a global impact on the global economy. Until the spread of the disease is contained to where new cases are few, we are all in for a bumpy ride.
Yet this year the CDC estimates there have been 14-36,000 deaths in the US from the seasonal flu since October 1 through February 8th.
14,000 is the conservative estimate. The number could be 36,000 according to the CDC.
The interviewee is credible, and references scientific papers. It appears that during the Obama administration a US lab engineered the virus as a bio weapon and sold it to China who used technology bought from Australia to make it more deadly still, but suffered a leak of the virus from its Wuhan BSL4 lab several hundred metres from the Wuhan meat market.
And the following link is a more recent interview with updated research info.
The black death wiped out half the known population…
800 is nothing.
Sure they are…its bigger than sars…we need to ban travel…panic…
They are dangerous because they are idiots
Webmd…facepalm
If you can’t trust greatgameindia and Infowars who can you trust?
I was reading yesterday that there are two strains of the flu running simultaneously. So, someone could get one strain, get well, then get the other strain.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It’s been a bad flu season for children nationwide and now officials say there is a second wave of influenza spreading. Pennsylvania has more than 72,000 confirmed cases of the flu, which is just a small reflection of the number of people who are sick.
