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How Serious is the Coronavirus?
Infectious Disease Expert Michael Osterholm Explains | Joe Rogan
Posted 4 years ago by Zerka in category: interesting
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Mark (guest) - 4 years ago [ Reply ]
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2:01 - 2017 flu killed 300000-650000 worldwide and nobody even batted an eye. That's with vaccines.

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retro - 4 years ago
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  That's not the issue here. The problem is that it will most likely not be possible for medical staff to treat everyone at once. There are only a certain amount of respirators and so on. The medical doctors will have to choose who will survive and not (just like in Italy). 
Noemoc - 4 years ago
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  If COVID-19 really has a 3% mortality rate (which maybe it doesn't, but so far it seems that it might) and if it becomes as prevalent as influenza, we would be looking at over a million deaths. Secondly, while there are still a smallish number of cases, we have the opportunity to contain, slow, maybe even eliminate the virus. And as retro says, if we do not at least slow the spread then resources will be overwhelmed. You are right that influenza is vastly larger in terms of public health burden--but if we do not act now that may not continue to be the case. This may end up being a lot of fuss and bother over something that is no more of an issue (or even less of an issue) than influenza but by the time we know that it will be way, way too late to do anything about it if we are wrong. (Not that influenza is not a serious issue--but we do not shut down society over influenza). 
qwqwqwqw - 4 years ago
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  Watch the damn video before the re-utter the same old "the flu kills far more people" crap. We know the flu kills more people. It's because covid19 hasn't infected as many as the flu infects, yet. If it does, far, far more people will die from covid-19. How don't you get that?  
DaveJoyce - 4 years ago
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  *if* is the operative word in every report you read on this. Everyone just needs to relax, take preventative steps and follow the advice of their local authorities and the CDC. Media breathlessly reporting doomsday scenario figures doesn’t help stores restock the Toilet paper. 🙄 
Swjfjg (guest) - 4 years ago
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  What are people trying to accomplish by denying the facts and trying to outsmart countless scientists and doctors and professionals of so many nations who have the expertise? Flu killed more so far. So what, has nothing to do with this. Its called flattening the curve and taking preventative measures so there is no massive peak of patients caused by the exponential growth of cases. This peak has catastrofic concequences on the healthcare system which we can already see in italy and us. There are no ifs anymore, we have plenty of data from to show that this is a major pandemic and needs to be taken very seriously. No need to panic but please take it seriously and quit with the bs, nonesense fact comparisons. 

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What are people trying to accomplish by denying the facts and trying to outsmart countless scientists and doctors and professionals of so many nations who have the expertise? Flu killed more so far. So what, has nothing to do with this. Its called flattening the curve and taking preventative measures so there is no massive peak of patients caused by the exponential growth of cases. This peak has catastrofic concequences on the healthcare system which we can already see in italy and us. There are no ifs anymore, we have plenty of data from to show that this is a major pandemic and needs to be taken very seriously. No need to panic but please take it seriously and quit with the bs, nonesense fact comparisons.

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