The best info I've seen concerning CoVid 19 from leading

“ Anthony Fauci, the widely respected director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases whose reputation for honesty and integrity have been only enhanced during this crisis, admitted in congressional testimony that the United States is still not providing adequate testing for the coronavirus. “It is failing. Let’s admit it.” He added, “The idea of anybody getting [testing] easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we’re not set up for that. I think it should be, but we’re not."

We also know the World Health Organization had working tests that the United States refused, and researchers at a project in Seattle tried to conduct early tests for the coronavirus but were prevented from doing so by federal officials. (Doctors at the research project eventually decided to perform coronavirus tests without federal approval.)

But that’s not all. The president reportedly ignored early warnings of the severity of the virus and grew angry at a CDC official who in February warned that an outbreak was inevitable. The Trump administration dismantled the National Security Council’s global-health office, whose purpose was to address global pandemics; we’re now paying the price for that. “We worked very well with that office,” Fauci told Congress. “It would be nice if the office was still there.”

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Re: Michael Osterholm (PhD) has written 2 books warning us of

Mar 14, 2020, 4:06 AM

Your ridiculous number of 9 million dead is based on all 300 million Americans getting this disease. That ain't gonna happen and quite frankly the death rate is a LOT lower than 3% for those under 70 years of age. In fact no one under the age of 67 has died in the USA - not to say it won't eventually happen but in order to reach these apocalyptic numbers that are being bandied about it would require a lot higher mortality rate in the middle age and younger crowd.

Doom and gloom prophets like Michael Osterholm can't have it both ways. In one breath they tell us this thing is killing at a 3% or more rate; yet they also tell us this thing spreads at an astronomical rate of 3.8 people per infected person. If the latter is true, then there are a lot more infected people than what is being tracked by the CDC and yet we aren't seeing some corresponding 3% increase in deaths among the general population. One of the two numbers (if not both) is off because while we may not know how many people have been infected, we do know when somebody dies and we haven't seen some unexplained death spike in this country.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about. Just last night the Governor of Ohio along with his health expert predicted they actually have or have had some 100,000 cases of COVID-19 in Ohio with that number doubling every six days. If that is true, then the death rate is a lot lower than 3% otherwise Ohio would see an alarming spike in their average death rate by some 3000 people - which has not happened.

My guess is that we will eventually find the overall mortality rate in the USA is well below 3%. If you are over 70 and have health issues - it'll be a lot higher than 3% but for all other age groups quite a bit lower.