Gene DellaSala Has Coronavirus

jones51,
You beat me to it.

The thing with this influenza is that we don’t have normal immunity against it like we have with other influenzas, so more people will be sick than normally. For those few that are very sick from before the mortality rate will be higher than from a usual flu. Tragic but no reason to panic.

Give me a break, it is absolutely ridiculous all the panic...More people in the USA ALONE on average 30-50 thousand, die of the flu every year. How many have died of corona in the USA? About 38, wow!!!! it is overblown to the degree that it is causing the stock market to crash...down 2300 points just today! And wow, 1 actor (if he is even truthful) has it out of how many actors in this country? And 1 NBA player out of how many? Whoopdedo....honestly being overblown with the help of the liberal media and the radical left democratic party to tank the economy and ruin Trumps re election prospects period. You will most likely be struck by lightning than to meet or happen to  know someone that has it or comes down with it. Geez.......

"No panic" because we were "Right on top of it!"
I love how people re-write history.... LoLz

This was 6 months AFTER the Swine flu emerged in April 2009.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/64599-obama-declares-swine-flu-a-national-emergency

President Barack Obama has declared the H1N1 flu pandemic a national emergency to prepare in case of a rapid increase in illness across the country.

Obama signed the proclamation late Friday giving medical facilities more leeway to handle the surge in patients with the H1N1 virus by waiving federal requirements on a case-by-case basis.

“Given that the rapid increase in illness across the Nation may overburden health care resources and that the temporary waiver of certain standard federal requirements may be warranted in order to enable U.S. health care facilities to implement emergency operations plans, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in the United States constitutes a national emergency,” Obama wrote in the proclamation.

Millions of Americans have reportedly been infected with what is commonly referred to as the swine flu.

Thomas Frieden, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday that more than a thousand people have died as a result of the H1N1 flu virus.

Obama also informed Congress about his proclamation of a national emergency.

“I have authorized the Secretary of Health and Human Services to exercise the authority under section 1135 of the Social Security Act to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements of the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children’s Health Insurance programs and of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule as necessary to respond to the pandemic throughout the duration of the public health emergency declared in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic,” Obama wrote to Congress.

Meanwhile, the vaccine against H1N1 has been in short supply. Flu clinics are swamped this weekend across the country with long lines of people trying to get the vaccine.

Ya I like the warm fuzzy of us all gathering in six months for the after action review...

except it ain’t gonna be all of us....

and with friends, family and past co-workers in Italy... the overload of ICU is killing people with other malady as HC staff are forced to make brutal allocative decisions...add the ICU required % to your calculations and this virus is deadly way way beyond swine flu