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Up to 150 million Americans could get coronavirus: US projection
AFP ^ | March 12, 2020 | Issam AHMED

Posted on 03/12/2020 6:12:07 PM PDT by RubinBoomer

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib made the remarks during a hearing of the House of Representatives with members of the president's coronavirus task force, confirming earlier reports by US media outlets including Axios and NBC News.

"Congress's attending physician told the Senate that he expects between 70 to 150 million people to eventually contract the coronavirus in the United States," Tlaib said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asininespeculation; chatforum; communityspread; coronavirus; covid19; fakenews; mediabias; ornot; skyisfalling; usatestingfail
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
..stopped reading there.

And start abusing Tlaib.

41 posted on 03/12/2020 6:42:43 PM PDT by RubinBoomer (Wash your hands and keep your fingers out of your orifices. Go on with life.)
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To: griswold3

CNN BS.

If you are exposed, isolate until you have symptoms or not. A test will not help you.


42 posted on 03/12/2020 6:42:54 PM PDT by anton
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To: murron

Yeah, and ten years before that. I’ve been dead twice. Going for my third time now.


43 posted on 03/12/2020 6:43:45 PM PDT by RubinBoomer (Wash your hands and keep your fingers out of your orifices. Go on with life.)
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To: RubinBoomer

I think the number makes sense if public health recommendations are not followed. The more we follow public health recommendations, I think the numbers will be much lower and not put a huge strain on the health care system. It is unfortunate more was not done a few weeks ago to slow it down but it is what it is.


44 posted on 03/12/2020 6:44:35 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: Michael.SF.

I know.


45 posted on 03/12/2020 6:47:15 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: NotSoFreeStater
Oh noes 😱😱😱😱 We’re all gonna die
46 posted on 03/12/2020 6:48:08 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: nhwingut

Not a troll


47 posted on 03/12/2020 6:49:47 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: RubinBoomer

I don’t understand why doctors are putting out these insane predictions. All it’s doing is creating panic.

China has a population of 1.4 billion people. 70,000 got sick.

Yet you are going to tell me 150 million out of 320 million Americans are going to get sick? So that’s half the US population?


48 posted on 03/12/2020 6:50:55 PM PDT by david1292
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To: Deaf Smith
Sounds like the herpes scare

And heterosexual AIDS

49 posted on 03/12/2020 6:51:14 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: RubinBoomer

Cofveve-19


50 posted on 03/12/2020 6:51:34 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: KobraKai

The muzzie will be strapping the vest on soon.
She’s gonna do it while confusion is high. ...

Damn. ..how Detroit has fallen. ...real shame. ...Detroit helped greatly in making America Great.


51 posted on 03/12/2020 6:53:24 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: palmer

Dr Anthony Fauci said CDC testing was colossal failure the Trump said it was going smoothly. Cannonhave those type of mistakes. Made Biden speech right


52 posted on 03/12/2020 6:53:42 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Glenmore

“1918-19 influenza (Spanish flu) affected about 1/3 of the world population and killed about 10% of those infected.”

in other words 3% of the world population died in the 1918-1919 flu pandemic


53 posted on 03/12/2020 6:55:09 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: RubinBoomer

Or maybe not !


54 posted on 03/12/2020 6:55:51 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: PROCON

4000/22 million is a lot less lethal than what we are seeing in Italy rn


55 posted on 03/12/2020 6:56:00 PM PDT by socalgop
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To: RubinBoomer

Tlaib would love for that many to die. She’s been pretty clear that her loyalties are not for America, but for ummah.


56 posted on 03/12/2020 6:57:20 PM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: dp0622
If you go to the Github website and download the confirmed case data, German's rate of growth today is comparable to that of Hubei about five weeks ago (if you believe Hubei's data). If you can apply the Hubei growth rate from five weeks ago, to Germany's case load today, Germany's case load levels off at about 12,500 casess, or 0.015% of their 83MM people. 0.015% of 329MM people is about 50k cases for the US if you trust the math.

I picked Germany because they don't mess around, and their controls are likely on par with that in the US.

I doubt we crack 100,000 cases in the US, especially since we're all pretty much in lockdown for the next month or so...with nothing better to do but work remotely, eat, watch Netflix, or post on FR.

57 posted on 03/12/2020 6:57:51 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: griswold3
How you gonna know without testing? Trump screwed the poooch on that one.

Because we have pretty good statistics from back tracing severe cases through the chain of people who are infected to an initial case, so we have pretty good numbers for totals infected vs severe infections, and we have a pretty good idea of the severe infections. So the numbers are not way off.

More testing would be good, but it will tell us less than you think it will tell us.

58 posted on 03/12/2020 7:00:50 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: DoodleBob

Best post of the day.

There was a funniest post of the day but that was another.

I have different categories.:)

Ohio big shot saying there are 100,000 cases in Ohio alone based on something or other.

I don’t believe that.

But you know what? Shut er down for a month and this thing is gone..the market goes back up, Trump can claim victory for beating the virus and we’ll sail into the elections.

Dems pushed this thing too hard too fast.

Should have let it spread and linger for as long as possible.

I think they did us a favor in the long run. It’s because of them and the fear of not being PC that everything is shutting down for March.

It will be a winning issue for Trump when all is saaid and done


59 posted on 03/12/2020 7:02:02 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: david1292
China has a population of 1.4 billion people. 70,000 got sick.

Because of very extreme public health measures. The problem is the folks who want to say no need because nothing happened.

60 posted on 03/12/2020 7:02:03 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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