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To: mel221 who wrote (1209392)	3/15/2020 7:38:25 PM
From: pocotrader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578588

you are really ignorant , there is no vaccine for this virus, the immune system is the only way to fight it, if it gets into the lungs, hospital care is the only chance you have, millions of Americans would be in huge financial trouble if they had to be hospitalized

To: mel221 who wrote (1209392)	3/15/2020 7:51:08 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578588

"Then why are so many Europeans dying so quickly in Europe because of this Corona Virus." Because it kills in a hurry, despite major intervention.. "Surely their public health system has everything they need" The public health system exists to keep the public from getting sick. Sanitation, food inspection, tracking down sources of illness, and quarantines. The health system takes care of the sick, and will be overwhelmed. It's expected that our's will be, too. I used to run vents. I don't know if there's a strategic national stockpile, but there won't be enuf vents and CPAP-BIPAP machines here. Every rental will be used, every hospital basement will be searched for old ones, and the companies need to start producing more. This is from GB. BBC News Coronavirus: 'Switch from building cars to ventilators' The health secretary pleas with manufacturers like carmakers to help fill the NHS ventilator shortage. 6 hours ago == We won't have enuf isolation rooms and we won't have enuf staff. Gonna be a whole lot of overtime. Here's the tip of Rat's tale... I got hired for my first job cuz flu exploded in the Bay Area, and hospitals were short-handed. School was in a portable classroom on the hospital grounds. When we got back from Xmas vacation, my teacher asked if I wanted a job, and took me up to the Respiratory Therapy dept. I had exactly zero clinical experience, and my other instructor taught me how to give a treatment that afternoon. I was the first green new deal. I was about the only therapist not putting in OT. IIRC, one guy worked like 30 straight days. We had to rent a couple of ventilators for several months. It was the worst outbreak of my career. SACRAMENTO (UPI) - State health officials say this year’s epidemic of London flu is nearly over, leaving in its wake 1.083 deaths in California s major cities alone. Dr. James Chin, head of the Department of Public Health’s infectious disease unit, said the death toll was 81 less than the number who died during the Hong Kong flu outbreak in 1968-69. Chin declared the 1972-73 influenza season is just about ended, but predicted another, less severe, outbreak of London flu this winter. He said a vaccine against the virus will be available by then and advised elderly persons and the chronically ill to obtain flu shots early next fall. The number of deaths resulting from flu and resulting pneumonia dropped from a peak of 162 in the first week of February to 54 during the first week of March, Chin said. “Northern California was struck the hardest, particularly in the Bay Area. Southern California was hit hard too, but the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia in excess of the norm did not occur as rapidly,” Chin said. cdnc.ucr.edu