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Current #coronavirus mortality rates:
People aged 60-70 = 4%
People aged 70-80 = 10%
People aged 80+ =14%
I cannot reiterate enough that if you have a chronic illness, particularly an auto-immune disease or lung disease or disability impacting your airway, you are at high risk for #coronavirus NO MATTER WHAT YOUR AGE. So you must protect yourselves accordingly.
For those asking me, the comparability % of regular #flu to #coronavirus is 0.05%. And each year in the U.S. between 35k (2019/20) and 90k (2017) people die of flu.
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Victoria Brownworth ☣
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Power has gone out in entire area. JFC this is stressful.
Always have your phones charged, folks. (Unlike me.) And if you are on an oxygen concentrator, ALWAYS have back-up oxygen tanks. If you need breathing treatments, you can turn a tank up to 6 to do a treatment with mask or the thing in your mouth.
Thank G-d the power is back. What a relief!!! 14k people were out, so a lot. Fortunately most people are sleeping,so may not have even known. But the lady at @PECOconnect who I talked to when I reported it and was crying about the oxygen was so nice. Very soothing.
#disability
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Victoria Brownworth ☣
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What needs to happen to start:
1. Widespread testing to determine extent of the spread.
2. Massive self-quaratine in high density affected areas.
3. Mobilize health care workers in impacted areas like Inslee & Cuomo have done.
4. Offer affected workers emergency $.
#coronavirus
5. All testing must be free.
6. Close down all nonessential businesses for the next 30 days like China did to contain the spread.
7. Ban all gatherings of over 100 people--watch your religious services online.
8. Release daily updates from Fauci and CDC.
9. Make price gouging on anything, but especially essentials, an arrestable offense.

I have covered two pandemics in my career. They have an end point if people use strict containment guidelines. Please do that. Right now we must follow past events for guidance. #coronavirus
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Victoria Brownworth ☣
@VABVOX
Long, discursive column on the myriad of things Bernie Sanders did wrong THIS time--exactly like last time. Dismissing black voters, being sexist. It leaves out Sanders' abusive, anti-Democrat staff who all claim racism isn't the problem, classism is.

thenation.com/article/politi…
The analysis is solid--I wrote myself that Bernie ditching Selma was a slap in the face to the seriously ill John Lewis and that Bernie should have reached out to Clyburn instead of insulting him. But there was more: Bernie's destructive anti-Hillary/anti-Obama messaging.
And while there is nothing I disagree with that Walsh says about Bernie, @thenation failing to endorse Warren and waiting to endorse Bernie until five minutes ago says even the progressive wing was confused about who belonged where.
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Meredith Cummings
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Here’s what it’s like to have two chronic illnesses and an autoimmune disease and live with the threat of #coronavirus, while most of society on social media makes fun of people like me. A thread about #COVID19.
Under “normal” circumstances I wash my hands constantly, clean my phone, glasses and other personal items with alcohol wipes two or three times a day. Since #COVID19 is airborne, I’m literally afraid to go outside. This may seem like an overreaction, but I’m not ready to die.
Many people with chronic illness are very afraid of getting the flu or colds in a normal year, so in a weird way we’re more prepared for #coronavirus than others. We’re always on alert. We move away from the sick coughers in public spaces and don’t fly often to avoid getting sick
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Endangered Sense
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At current published mortality rates #coronavirus will only need to infect around 600,000 people in the US to kill the same number as the low estimate of this years flu which is 21,000. It took the flu 29,000,000 cases to accomplish that. Get it yet?
What if it spread as far as the flu and infects 29,000,000 and keeps that mortality rate? Over 1 million dead and that is excluding the healthcare systems crashing at that point due to the numbers of severe and critical cases being unmanageable.
The only thing that prevents this is unprecedented measures that we have never seen in our lifetime or a miracle...not betting on any miracle.
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Jacob Canfield
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I decided to read almost every paper that exists on #CoronaVirus today.

My background is Biology and Neurology and I'm obsessed with catching parabolic trends early, data and medical research.

Here is a thread with the latest research

Feel free to retweet or cite with credits
For reference, about a month ago, I was one of the early people warning of Corona Virus and urging my followers to prepare and buying masks and predicting fear and mass hysteria.

Links to tweets:


Where did it come from?

Based on the genetic sequencing, it either came from bats or Pangolins originally.

The most probable suspect is a bat, but it could have been a bat to another animal similar to how SARS spread before.

Source:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Yossi Gestetner
@YossiGestetner
Swine flu killed 12,469 people in the US from mid 2009 to mid 2010. Do you recall market meltdowns and OMG coverage of it daily? I don't. Globally a few hundred thousand people died. 2009 was the start of an economic recovery yet now we are potentially having an economic plunge.
Swine Flu killed on average 34 people a day from April 2009 to April 2010 per the CDC. Basically, three days of Swine Flu had more DEATHS than the total current #CoronaVirus cases in the US. Can Corona get worse than current levels? Sure but it is not anywhere close to it.
Coronavirus is not anywhere close to Swine Flu levels so I am not sure why people are spreading panic about it. Even if it reaches those levels, there was no OMG WE ARE DYING tone in mid 2009 during Swine. The economy in fact got out of a recession mid 2009 despite Swine Flu!
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IndoPacific News
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#coronavirus

760 million people in #China under some kind of residential lockdown, or more than half the country’s population

To Tame #coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China
nytimes.com/2020/02/15/bus…
China flooded cities & villages with battalions of neighborhood busybodies, uniformed volunteers & Party representatives to carry out one of the biggest social control campaigns in history

The goal: to keep hundreds of millions of people away from everyone but their closest kin
The nation is battling the coronavirus outbreak with a grassroots mobilization reminiscent of former Chairman Mao Zedong’s mass crusades, not seen in China in decades — essentially entrusting front-line epidemic prevention to a supercharged version of a neighborhood watch
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EVent Horizon
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Think someone is lying to you?

First check to see if they bothered to add any variability whatsoever in the model they are using to supposedly report actual numbers from a complex system.

#coronavirus
The mortality rate they want you to report is the - 0 day rate: Today's Confirmed Death total minus Today's Confirmed Case total.

This has not varied outside of 1/10th of 1% in the last 5 prints.

#coronavirus
But even a minor adjustment of a few days in the mortality rate paints an entirely different picture

#coronavirus

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