The reality-incongruent narrative of Donald Trump was contrasted 180 degrees in Germany by German Health Minister Jens Spahn and the German Chancellor who on Wednesday became the first leaders in the world to speak the truths scientists have been telling them for the past three months.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel indicated in a press conference yesterday that “up to 70% of Germany’s population” – some 58 million people – could become ill with the COVID-19 .
Merkel says what many scientists suggest: Waiting for vaccines and other medications, the focus must be on slowing the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
“It’s about winning time,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel explained.
Most scientific models for the COVID-19 outbreak indicate a 60% global infection rate unless the infection is stopped.
Mortality rate likely less than decimal five percent.
“Most infections will have minor or unnoticed symptoms,” is a statement echoed by all experts. FPM.news student interns and medical types are keen on the modelling work of Dr. Neil Ferguson. Also the best testing base has been the work of the South Koreans because they have done the most testing of their communities and have breached the barriers into the asymptomatic and mild cases of COVID-19 that other nations have not entered.
Mortality rates range across significant guesses and as such are not valid. Until the total number of infections is known the mortality rate will remain unknown. The number of deaths are going to be very high, however.
by Micheal John
WHO Dr. Tedros Warned the world loudly.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned repeatedly that despite public health experts across the globe being able to combat the spread of COVID-19 illness, the level of “political commitment did not match the threat level”, he said.
“This is not a drill,” said the WHO chief.
“This is not the time to give up,” says the WHO boss.
“This is not a time for excuses. This is a time for pulling out all the stops. Countries have been planning for scenarios like this for decades. Now is the time to act on those plans,” Dr. Tedros warned emphatically.
“This epidemic can be pushed back, but only with a collective, coordinated and comprehensive approach that engages the entire machinery of government,” Dr. Tedros added.
Professor Neil Ferguson and Professor Christl Donnelly speak to the current status of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, non-pharmaceutical interventions and estimates of undetected cases.
Photo Credit: MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis
Photo Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective Magazine
Professor Neil Ferguson says “the world tried very hard to stop the novel coronavirus outbreak but failed”.
‘We’re now moving towards trying to slow the spread to allow the health systems to cope and try to mitigate the impact of the epidemic,” says Ferguson. He warns that the most vulnerable must be protected or they will die.
Original estimates if the world failed to stop the outbreak suggest that more than 60% of the world population could become infected. Watch the videos below.
“10% Of all infections in China have been detected and maybe a quarter of all infections in some nations around the world,” says Dr. Ferguson.
It is important to note that scientists are talking about all cases which the population never hears about because the patients in most cases have no worries brought by their infection except that they are potentially and unknowingly infecting other people.
“We estimate the epidemic will double every five days,” says Ferguson.
“The rest of the world will see various epidemics in about a month [around this time],” Fergusson forecasted a month ago, and it appears that about this and other predictions he was 100% correct.
The World Health Organization has now declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a House Oversight Committee hearing Credit: Patrick Semansky/AP — Photo Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective Magazine
Dr. Fauci warned that the spread of SARS-CoV-2 will become worse and that the spread of COVID-19 seems inevitable. He also told House of Representative lawmakers it would be nice if President Donald Trump hadn’t eliminated the “National Security Council’s global-health unit”.
“We worked very well with that office. It would be nice if the office was still there,” Dr. Fauci said during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday of this week.
In May of 2018, Donald Trump ordered the the National Security Council’s global-health unit disband and pushed out its leader, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, who would otherwise have anticipated and overseen the current American response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump who as well as being an antivaxxer and a climate change disbeliever is also a healthcare opponent. Trump effectively removed a robust strategy against pandemics. To this day the United States is COVID-19-incompetent, say many observers.
Dr. Fauci is hushed, but ‘On the Team’
79-Year old Dr. Anthony Stephen “Tony” Fauci is an American immunologist whose work some of us studied in University, this writer included.
On 15 July of last year, RINJ Foundation HIV health care workers from Asia learned of more of Dr. Fauci’s substantial contributions to HIV/AIDS research at a conference in Mexico City.
The 10th (2019) IAS Conference concluded 15 July in Mexico City. The biennial IAS Conference on HIV Science is the largest open scientific conference on HIV and last year assembled more than 5,000 participants from more than 140 countries, many of whom came to hear what Dr. Fauci had to say.
As a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, this former teacher of mine is eminently qualified to lead the US effort, if not the world effort in fighting SARS-CoV-2. Nevertheless, Trump chose his Vice President Mike Pence, but Dr. Fauci, sidelined at first, is now on the team, following a lot of vocal protest at his initial exclusion.
Carefully, Tony Fauci told the American House Oversight Committee that this is going to get worse.
“The world is grappling with what the most relevant response should be,” says Professor Neil Ferguson.
“Suppress all transmission or mitigate an epidemic?” ponders Ferguson. (Watch below.)
Many countries in the world will see dislocating social changes.
According to the 8th report of the Imperial College of London, Global Infectious Disease Analysis, “We find that in mainland China, where specific symptoms or disease presentation are reported, pneumonia is the most frequently mentioned, see figure 1. We found a more varied spectrum of severity in cases outside mainland China. In Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and South Korea, fever was the most frequently reported symptom. In this latter group, presentation with pneumonia is not reported as frequently although it is more common in individuals over 60 years old.”
“The average time,” says the London scientific group, “ from reported onset of first symptoms to the occurrence of specific symptoms or disease presentation, such as pneumonia or the use of mechanical ventilation, varied substantially. The average time to presentation with pneumonia is 5.88 days, and may be linked to testing at hospitalisation; fever is often reported at onset (where the mean time to develop fever is 0.77 days).'”
- Download the latest report (#8): Imperial-College-COVID19-symptom-progression-11-03-2020
- A CSV of case symptoms under analysis: subset_international_cases_2020_03_11
Professor Neil Ferguson on the COVID-19 Pandemic on March 11.
Interviewee: Professor Neil Ferguson, Imperial College London, Director of J-IDEA and MRC GIDA
Interviewer and Producer: Dr Sabine van Elsland, Imperial College London, J-IDEA, MRC GIDA
The Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA) brings together global health researchers in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London. Drawing on Imperial’s expertise in data analytics, epidemiology and economics, J-IDEA improves our understanding of diseases and health emergencies in the most vulnerable populations across the globe. The Institute links governments, research institutions and communities to develop practical and effective long-term solutions, shape health policy and deliver better quality of life for all.
Professor Neil Ferguson initially explained his model.
Current COVID-19 Case Updates Indicate a Global Crisis
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- United Kingdon COVID-19
- Coronavirus in Scotland
- The People’s Republic of China
- Canadian Department of Health
- US Centers for Disease Control
- United States Food and Drug Administration
- Hong Kong Global Tracking (PDF)
- Philippines COVID-19 Tracker
- Iran News Agency
- Govt. of Ireland
- Australia DoH
- Australia Public Information (PDF)
- Ministry of Health, Singapore
- Ministry of Health and Welfare, South Korea
- Province of Ontario, Canada CoronaVirus Info
- Province of Ontario, News Room
- WHO
- Government of New Zealand
- MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis
- US Washington State Health Department
- New York State