'This is really quite important': Deborah
Birx says administration looking
into plummeting UK death toll
Washington Examiner,
by
Andrew Mark Miller
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
3/28/2020 6:55:55 AM
White House coronavirus task force member Deborah Birx said the Trump administration is looking with “great detail” into a report from the United Kingdom that reduces the expected death toll from 500,000 people to 20,000 or less.
A widely regarded U.K. study that inspired strict coronavirus crackdowns in the United States was revised to show that it is now expected to be at about 20,000, it was reported Thursday.
“I am sure many of you saw the recent report out of the U.K. about them adjusting completely their needs,” Birx said Thursday evening during a press conference updating the nation on the coronavirus. “This is really quite important.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 3/28/2020 7:09:26 AM (No. 360556)
All models share one thing in common - garbage in, garbage out.
26 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/28/2020 7:13:39 AM (No. 360560)
Our governor has issued a state-wide stay at home order. This is crazy. Stuff like this kills just as disease does. Politicians are exercising their inner dictator egos. Can't wait to vote out of office the panic mongers.
33 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 3/28/2020 7:18:00 AM (No. 360564)
No one makes a calculation error that devastating by accident. NO ONE!!!! Something is very wrong here and needs to be looked at. This information created a worldwide economic disaster. My question is, was this information provided by WHO? The WHO director as we know it is in bed with the Chinese. Our government is now recognizing that the information they received was WRONG. People need to get back to work, liberal government (states) need to stop trying to drum up more panic, people need to get out of their homes, etc. Everyone needs to understand that this virus is no different than any other.
33 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 3/28/2020 7:35:28 AM (No. 360573)
Pretty soon we are going to come to this situation. 1. If you are reasonably healthy for your age, all you are likely to suffer is symptoms similar to a mild flu. 2. If you are immunocompromised then your best chances of survival are in a society that has gone back to work. The third option, to the chagrin of Democrats is rapidly narrowing like a right hand lane that is ending.
17 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 3/28/2020 8:48:15 AM (No. 360615)
# 3 - I stopped believing the numbers a few days ago. I also suspect lots of deaths attributed to the virus were actually flu deaths, which number in the thousands.
13 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/28/2020 9:21:06 AM (No. 360674)
So much panic. So much inconsistancies. So many lies. The aftermath of this will prove both interesting and depressing as the truth is revealed.
11 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 3/28/2020 9:54:45 AM (No. 360726)
I don't believe any numbers from anywhere in the entire world. It's all over the map and so mind boggling that it can't be true.
I can see the Trump administration trying to present true numbers but the comparisons don't add up so someone is lying and crunching fake numbers like fake news.
It's like Russia saying they have not cases of Virus-19 it stopped at their border. If two million Russians really die from the virus we would never know or hear about it.
I wouldn't put American numbers against the communist Chinese numbers because they would tell the truth.
4 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 3/28/2020 10:10:57 AM (No. 360746)
I always thought shutting down the economy would be the only way the leftists would have a chance to defeat Trump in November. They've tried everything else, why not create hysteria about a virus. Leftists inside the government saw an opportunity to do just that. Notice that during the Obozo years, the H1N1 virus killed thousands of people before Obozo did anything, and they never told everyone to stay home.
10 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/28/2020 10:14:27 AM (No. 360753)
Could some of the deaths be the result of someone, usually an old person, infected with the traditional yearly flu plus Kung Flu?
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/28/2020 10:29:18 AM (No. 360775)
Only a little bit off-topic.The lead cartoon today makes me thankful that Gary Varvel (political cartoonist) is still drawing. I was afraid he had retired. LOVE today's marvelous message. Ditto on the thanks we owe these personnel.
5 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2020 10:46:31 AM (No. 360789)
Something VERY screwy is going on in Italy and Spain. Today's numbers for Italy are 151 deaths per million residents, in Spain it is 122 deaths per million residents.
Yet in the USA, it is 5 per million, in Germany, 5 per million, in Austria 8 per million.
France, Belgium, Switzerland and Netherlands in the 30s per million.
So why are Italy and Spain seeing 25 to 30 times the death rate of the US and Germany?
Why are France, Belgium, Switzerland and Netherlands at 6 times the death rate of US/Germany?
What the heck is going on? The infection rates in Italy is 4 times the USA. OK then divide their 30X death rate by 4 and you still get a death rate 7.5 times that of the USA.
Somehow these numbers do not add up. There is some huge piece of this puzzle missing. Is socialized medicine that horrible? But doesn't Germany have pretty much the same socialized medicine as Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Netherlands? Hard to believe that Swiss, French, Belgian and Dutch docs are that much worse than American, German and Austrian docs.
Serious anomalies in this data.
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/28/2020 10:53:04 AM (No. 360798)
No, no. We only want to hear about it when cases "skyrocket" and the stock market "plummets." This good news is sickening.
5 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
lftrn97 3/28/2020 11:13:55 AM (No. 360824)
From the article "Almost 500,000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide, and over 22,000 people have died, while almost 120,000 have recovered."
So that's 142,000 confirmed cases worldwide. Are the other 358,000 in hospitals or walking around unrecovered or what?
0 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/28/2020 12:37:24 PM (No. 360913)
Anyone else notice that the Left bases all their nonsense on British false data? Like climate change for instance, and now CV. Anything to grab power and control over the general population.
3 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2020 12:44:29 PM (No. 360923)
Much like the problem of the behavior of galaxies - there HAS TO be a lot more mass out there in the universe than we can see, the gravity is there. So astrophysicists have come up with "dark matter" to explain it.
The only thing that explains the Spanish and Italian anomalies is "dark Wuhan flu cases". There have to be a LOT of no symptom or low symptom cases. My guess is from 75 to 80% of their cases are low enough symptoms that people don't turn themselves in to the medical folks and don't get counted. THAT can make their death rate in the range of the US rate to perhaps twice the US rate. THAT is believable. A 10% death rate when everyone else has 1.2% or less.....not real. LOTS of "missing denominator", the low/no symptom cases not being counted.
0 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
frew 3/28/2020 12:46:00 PM (No. 360925)
What they are actually saying is that deaths in the UK can be cut to 20,000 if they use strict social distancing, quarantines, and case identification and isolation and continue this until a vaccine is developed, or for 18 months in other words. So it's a completely ridiculous, impossible policy. They also say that if we do as is planned and clamp down for a month or two then we'll have deaths in the hundreds of thousands in the US rather than the millions. In any case we are set to have to ration ICU beds because it will be ten times what our system can take.
1 person likes this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2020 1:53:59 PM (No. 361018)
The only thing that plummeted is the BS projection. Using Chinese numbers as data is stepping into a bear trap. Chinese numbers are always propaganda lies. Always. All of them.
2 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Penney 3/28/2020 2:43:22 PM (No. 361082)
The facts surfacing are beginning to make this coranovirus scare sound like a world wide propaganda con, crafted & timed to hurt the USA and commerce throughout the planet. While we know this flu can take lives, the media's reports seem to be exaggerating the consequences.
1 person likes this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Judy W."
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Comments:
So all this panic is probably based on false data, seized by leftists to shut down the economy to defeat Trump in November. I'm glad Dr. Birx is on the case.