Nearly 85%-90% of people infected with Covid-19 will experience minimal symptoms. The fear is more the transmission of the virus to others, since Covid-19 spreads at a significantly greater rate than similar viruses, such as the flu. Mild symptoms in conjunction with high transmission rates highly increases the likelihood of a massive spread of the virus and greatly impacts the ten percent to fifteen percent of the population who are at significant risk.
Those include individuals with heart disease, diabetes, respiratory diseases, high blood pressure, existing neoplasms and the elderly. The mortality rates for this subset of the population are significantly higher than the less than 1.0% mortality rates for individuals not included within this subset. If you have multiple underlying conditions that mortality skyrockets even further. In addition, if the outbreak isn’t slowed in some manner the health systems are simply not equipped to handle the potential volume of patients. Some infected will develop pneumonia and need to be hospitalized and likely need ventilators. There is some concern of potential backlogs of this type of treatment and/or housing of patients if the outbreak isn’t slowed. Look at Italy, it’s an absolute health system disaster.
Here in the US we are significantly behind from a testing standpoint at less than 10K conducted at lots of individuals looking to be tested who can’t tested and entire areas of the country who don’t even have testing capabilities. South Korea is testing around 10K people every 12 hours. We really don’t know the magnitude of the spread at this point, so things like mortality rates are overstated and infected individuals is wildly underreported.
Those include individuals with heart disease, diabetes, respiratory diseases, high blood pressure, existing neoplasms and the elderly. The mortality rates for this subset of the population are significantly higher than the less than 1.0% mortality rates for individuals not included within this subset. If you have multiple underlying conditions that mortality skyrockets even further. In addition, if the outbreak isn’t slowed in some manner the health systems are simply not equipped to handle the potential volume of patients. Some infected will develop pneumonia and need to be hospitalized and likely need ventilators. There is some concern of potential backlogs of this type of treatment and/or housing of patients if the outbreak isn’t slowed. Look at Italy, it’s an absolute health system disaster.
Here in the US we are significantly behind from a testing standpoint at less than 10K conducted at lots of individuals looking to be tested who can’t tested and entire areas of the country who don’t even have testing capabilities. South Korea is testing around 10K people every 12 hours. We really don’t know the magnitude of the spread at this point, so things like mortality rates are overstated and infected individuals is wildly underreported.
You do realize even if you lived with one of those people and you weren’t at big time risk....you could bring it into the home and give it to that person without you or them knowing. So it’s a little bit more complicated than just that. But everyone quarantining would work but not just those people.
I think it'll be a brutal few weeks as cases/deaths keep going up. This is just an exponential phenomenon.
After that, maybe we start to see some declines, our healthcare industry rises to the occasion, our citizens are more educated on it, we get some luck w/ the better weather. Seems like you can't even legitimately evaluate it for 3-4 weeks.
You’re right.
But I’ve got a question for you.... how the hell do you speak here knowing that most people in this section who voice their radical views for a long time are not normal citizens. I think you’re a logical person, but how do you talk like these people are normal citizens here with rational views? Because you know that’s not the case.
