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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCoronavirus could be like 1918 flu pandemic, warns ex-CDC expert
'It is likely that people you know will die'The coronavirus crisis could be as serious and deadly as the 1918 flu pandemic which killed up to 50m people around the world, a former CDC infectious disease specialist has warned.
As health experts from Milan to Wuhan scrambled to try and stop the spread of COVID-19, which has now infected more than 108,000 people and killed 3,800, an epidemiologist in Washington state has warned that people you know will likely die.
Its possible that COVID-19 will be similar to a bad flu year but there are a number of indications that it will be very much like the 1918 flu pandemic, wrote Juliana Grant, a preventive medicine physician and infectious disease epidemiologist. To put that in perspective, the 1918 flu did not end civilisation as we know it but it was the second-deadliest event of the last 200 years. It is likely that people you know will die from COVID-19.
The comments of Ms Grant came as officials in Washington state, the epicentre of the crisis in the US, declared three new deaths had been reported, bringing the total to 20 in the state and perhaps 24 nationally.
https://news.yahoo.com/likely-people-know-die-coronavirus-212524242.html
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Mar 2020
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Preventive Medicine Physician and Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, yet they call her "Ms. Grant"
hlthe2b
Mar 2020
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hlthe2b
(102,328 posts)1. Preventive Medicine Physician and Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, yet they call her "Ms. Grant"
Funny how that never happens to the males physicians or PhD's that they cite.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,135 posts)2. Kind of like when they called President Obama Mr. Obama
Silver1
(721 posts)3. Wow, you're right.
And "wrote Juliana Grant, a preventive medicine physician and infectious disease epidemiologist."
That wording stood out to me when I read it but I went right past it. After seeing what you pointed out, it's obvious that too should have said "Dr. Juliana Grant".
Thanks for the vigilance.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)5. Actually that's pretty common in the British press
DrToast
(6,414 posts)6. Did you read the article?
Peter Hotez, dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, has urged Congress not to minimise the virus risk for vulnerable or people.
He testified on Capitol Hill it was like the angel of death for older individuals.
Mr Hotez told The Independent he was deeply concerned some people were not taking seriously enough the risk to places such as care homes such as the one in Kirkland, near Seattle, where most of the deaths in the US have occurred.
still_one
(92,322 posts)4. One would think medical technology has improved since then to at least provide better supportive
care
defacto7
(13,485 posts)7. Killed up to 50 million????
No, no, between 50 and 100 million. Lowest and highest estimate.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)8. The 2nd wave was especially deadly
It mutated and spread.
Deaths rate in the U.K.
I can see this happening. The infection rate and mortality drop as the summer arrives. Trump gloats.
Fall - temperature cools, schools start the new year, and suddenly, the "Hoax" becomes an unstoppable epidemic. We will be no better prepared than we are today.