Nothing about the COVID-19 outbreak is commonplace.
from the White House’s Rose Garden as he argued in favor of easing lockdown orders across the country for the sake of the economy.
There is currently no vaccine for the new virus. And while the influenza mortality rate is around 0.1% in the U.S., the COVID-19 mortality rate is at least 10 times higher. It is possible that we are overstating the true mortality rate. “Problem is, no doctor wants to take that risk,” Dr. Howard Markel, director of the University of Michigan’s Center for the History of Medicine, told HuffPost.
“Normal flu, if I get that, I’m going to infect about 1.3, 1.4 people,” Dr. Hugh Montgomery, chair of intensive care medicine at University College London,people pass it on, “by the time that’s happened 10 times, I’ve been responsible for about 14 cases of flu,” he explained. That’s why public health experts have stressed the importance of flattening the curve, or staggering the number of cases over a longer period of time. COVID-19 has the potential to completely overwhelm the health care system if we all went back to work as soon as Trump wants us to.Trump’s comparison of COVID-19 deaths to traffic fatalities is even less useful.
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