Posted on 03/02/2020 5:09:16 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The coronavirus death toll now tops 3,000 worldwide, with nearly 90,000 cases. But even those numbers are nothing compared to what could happen in the months ahead.
CBS News spoke to one of the country's top experts on viruses, Marc Lipsitch from Harvard University, who cautions that 40-70% of the world's population will become infected — and from that number, 1% of people who get symptoms from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, could die. The virus can spread rapidly and people can transmit it before they know they are infected.
Lipsitch breaks down his findings in this extended conversation with CBS News. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
Jim Axelrod: So, the number that I think is grabbing a lot of people is this estimate: 40-70% of the world's adult population could be infected.
Marc Lipsitch: Yes.
Axelrod: Accurate?
Lipsitch: That is a projection, so we will find out if it's accurate as things go on. It is the best estimate that I've been able to make based on a combination of the mathematical models that we use to track and predict epidemics.
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Axelrod: 40-70% of the world’s adult population could be infected.
Marc Lipsitch: Yes.
Axelrod: Accurate?
Lipsitch: We hope so.
We are gonna die
Just not today
https://youtu.be/HD9PvujAnjE
If 40% to 70% get it, how in the world can the others avoid it?
CBS.
All you need to know.
See BS.
Someone find his social media history!
...over the next 50 years.
Trump’s fault.
No children have gotten a severe case, and the worst cases are in old coots with other health problems like asthma. So... it’s been nice knowing you guys. ;-)
Ping
Of course CBS will take the word of this one Harvard epidemiologist as gospel. There’s been no consensus among the world’s virologists, epidemiologists and other health scientists for these kinds of numbers, but that won’t stop CBS and the rest of the MSM from making Professor Lipsitch a foremost authority on the subject of the coronavirus!
The number of new Cases in China dropped to under 200 , and has been trending down a few days now.... they even closed one of those large temporary hospitals over the weekend, due to lack of patients.
And a massive solar flare could toast one side of the earth in the months ahead... Possible, not probable.
I’ll go on record right now and say:
COVID-19 CASES ARE GOING TO BE DROPPING ON THE NEXT MONTH...JUST LIKE FLU CASES WILL BE DROPPING!
This Harvard guy’s estimate has already been in the media (other sources, including Tucker Carlson’s show last week) for well over a week.
SeeBS is not the only one to be touting his estimate. In fact, I just saw him again on FNC this afternoon.
While I absolutely hope you are right, I've been following this pretty closely and would say it's between "highly unlikely" and "zero" that this will drop in the next month. In fact, we're likely to go from ~100 cases today to thousands in the next week or two..and beyond that, Katie bar the door.
Certainly more will be suffering from nervous breakdowns and other stress related ailments, thanks to the 24-7 barrage of fake noos around the Kung-Flu
Yeah, it’s March. The flu doesn’t do well in heat or humidity.
Not all the 90,000 cases are still active. I believe the active cases are about half that number and decreasing. More hype by the MSM.
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