Comments by "Dean Firnatine" (@deanfirnatine7814) on "Global isolation and containment" video.

  1. It does not, your 100% right, people keep saying this 2% death rate, but that is BS, even China's low ball numbers say 3.4-3.6% and it has been going up, that said figuring out the death rate this way, deaths divided by total cases is wrong until a outbreak is OVER because most cases, especially early on in a outbreak are in the beginning or mid stages of the virus, you do not sneeze and die, it takes time, usually. The better way to get a ROUGH idea of actual death rate DURING an outbreak is divide deaths by total of deaths and recovered, obviously those two categories have completed the infection cycle, when you do that you get a death rate of 6-7%. You saw this same mistake with SARS while it was going on they were saying 2-3% death rate and as it went on that got higher, at the end it was close to 10% if I recall. FYI I worked in Public Health.
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  2. I worked in Public Health in Washington State for a large County agency, specifically the Emergency Management part, the State Health Dept are idiots more concerned with pronouns than plans, perhaps only surpassed in idiocy by the CDC who make a habit out of not following their own guidelines. The only consolation is we are better prepared than Oregon or California. I would also say it is not just government, the hospitals were the absolute worst to try to get them to have a plan and be prepared, they have little surge capacity, it was like pulling teeth to get people to take this possibility seriously and now it is here, I have felt like calling them up and saying "remember me? I told you so!".
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  3.  @mischelleclare2493  I think that is part of it, denial, you cannot pull a gun on a virus. The other part is WHO and others blew SARS, MERS, Measles etc so out of proportion. The thing I would point out is that China is not going to quarantine over half their population and damn near destroy their economy over the flu
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  4. True but the fault lies with our horrific education system
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  5.  Max Powers  Except it kills young as well
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  6. Every study I have read out of China shows R0 higher than that, I have seen 4.07 to over 7
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