Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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NightlyPoe said:

Pemalite said:

Trump for months has downplayed the Coronavirus, saying it's a non-issue, they are on top of it, they have control of the situation... And obviously the flow-on effect to that is many agencies haven't bothered to prepare to the extent that they should have, the problem starts from the very very top.

Hopefully New York has hit a peak, but don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched... This could continue on for another 6+ months, there might be more peaks to come and allot more people will certainly die before we have a viable vaccine in bulk.

Unless there's a wave coming that is several times as bad as this one, the 40,000 number just isn't realistic.

And the rest is your just taking Trump out of context.  It's juvenile, petty politics and I don't have time for it on a serious thread.  Don't bother to dredge up the quotes, it'll just be a waste of both of our time when I counter with the full context.

40,000 what exactly?

Deaths in the US? Yeah, that's unrealistic - unrealistically low!

Deaths in New York? Sounds a bit high but not impossible the way it is going.

40,000 needing ventilators in NY? Keep in mind that  a lot of persons outside of the ICU may be needing some, too. And don't forget all those who were dependent on them even before the Coronavirus came. This need didn't just magically disappear, it's not just Coronavirus patients that need ventilators. Besides, there are 26,000 people in NY being hospitalized from the Coronavirus right now, so at the rate it's rising there, those 40k may be very well needed just for Covid-19 cases soon.