We didn’t even shut down the country for the much worse SARS or MERS:
Fauci now admits: “the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.”
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[Dr. Robert J. Rowen note – I’ve repeatedly said that we are overdue for a real pandemic, and I mean one that is hot and kills. This one does kill, but not like ebola, smallpox, or even 1918. Was this worth shutting down state parks, inducing “Nature Deficiency Syndrome”. Or shuttering businesses, many forever, inducing an instant Depression? Worse, when the next “real” deadly pandemic comes, what will be the response of the people if our Rulers cried “WOLF” with this one?
And why the great infectious disease guru, Fauci, does not respond to messages, or know about incredible published work on oxidation therapies treating these “untreatable” conditions years ago? And why the NEJM and/or other major journals sees fit to discuss matters that are not relevant to really saving lives, when it refuses to consider a commentary and history bringing forth the papers of old?]
Dr. Fauci: Coronavirus death rate like very bad flu
‘Considerably less than 1%,’ he writes in New England Journal of Medicine
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Taskforce. (Official White House photo by D. Myles Cullen)
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, co-authored an article published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine predicting the fatality rate for the coronavirus will turn out to be like that of a “severe seasonal influenza.”
In an exceptionally bad flu season, the case fatality rate is about one-tenth of 1 percent, the authors write.
Regarding the current coronavirus pandemic, they said: “If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%.”
Taking into account the unreported cases, they conclude “that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.” …
His current assessment is a signicant downgrade from the figure he cited in testimony to the House of Representatives on March 11 in which he called for a cancellation of any large gatherings. …
As WND reported Thursday, the lead author of a dire coronavirus study cited by the White House, Downing Street and other governments in their decisions implement unprecendented “social distancing” measures has drastically revised the estimated death toll of the pandemic in the U.K.
The study by Imperial College of London published March 16 estimated that 2.2 million Americans and 500,000 Britons could die. But lead author Neil Ferguson testified Wednesday to a parliamentary committee that the U.K. death toll is unlikely to exceed 20,000 and could be much lower. And more than half that number would have died anyway by the end of the year, because of their age and underlying illnesses, he told the panel.
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