U.S. is an "outlier" in global virus fight, ex-CDC director says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Calling the United States an "outlier" among nations that otherwise have been successful in curtailing the spread of the coronavirus, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that it was a mistake to reopen public spaces, like bars, early, and that the country is paying for that mistake with dramatic spikes in cases and hospitalizations.

Dr. Tom Frieden, the president and CEO of Resolve To Save Lives (an initiative that works to prevent epidemics), also responded on"CBS This Morning" to President Donald Trump's comments this weekend that 99 percent of coronavirus cases are "harmless," saying that complications from the virus are not fully understood.

"I think that part of the challenge here is that we've lost the nuance," Dr. Frieden told co-host Gayle King. "Some people are saying this is a hoax, it's fake, it's not serious. Other people may be saying it's the worst thing in the world, a zombie apocalypse. It's neither. This is a terrible pandemic. It has killed 130,000 Americans. It has sickened many, many more. And we don't yet know what the long-term complications of some of the illness [are]. But it is true that 99% of people who get it will survive.

"We need a more nuanced approach. Right now, the virus has the upper hand throughout much of America, most of America. We can regain the upper hand if we work together. If we work together, we can get our kids back to school in the fall, we can restart our economy, and we can prevent deaths. But we'll only do that by coming together to stop the virus. It's not going to stop on its own; we have to stop it."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-is-an-outlier-in-global-virus-fight-ex-cdc-director-says/ar-BB16oEBr?li=BBnb7Kz

[Nevilledog]

1. Again with the 99% shit.

If 130,000 deaths equal the 1% that means 13 MILLION have been infected.

[DBoon]

2. If I had a 1% chance of dying on the freeway

I'd take the surface streets everywhere. Or walk.

A 1% chance of death would be unacceptably high almost anywhere. A job that killed 1% of workers, a 1% chance of dying in an airplane crash, etc. would end those activities.