(February 28, 2020 at 12:53 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: The more I read about it, the more confused I am about it. According to the CDC, the symptoms are a fever, cough, and shortness of breath, a triad that applies to a shitton of diseases. And given that the death rate is a little more than 2%, mostly older people, I’m finding it harder to understand what exactly the fuss is about. What exactly makes this different from other respiratory diseases that go around? Besides its apparently lasting longer, and having a known source of the outbreak? Is there something I’m missing?
It's new.
It apparently has a much higher mortality rate than the most serious respiratory infectious diseases in the US.
There is a lot about it we do not yet know. For instance, morbidity, mortality, how it's spread, who has it, what the best disinfectant is, etc.
The President is a loose cannon and is not sharing accurate information with the country.
The incubation is very long, so people have a lot of opportunity to spread it before they know to quarantine themselves.
There is no vaccine.
The diagnostic has just been developed and isn't widely available for distribution yet.
We have a huge number of people in the country without health insurance or the money to pay for care
The numbers projected by epidemiologists make this a potentially overwhelming disease, as has already been demonstrated in Italy.
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