From William Noel at American Thinker (“The Wuhan Virus is Turning Into a Wimp”):
As we learn more about the COVID-19
Wuhan virus each day, it is becoming increasingly obvious that it isn’t the
great threat to our health and survival we were initially led to believe. . . .
This isn’t to say the Wuhan virus
cannot kill, because it is the nature of viruses to attack where they find
weakness, multiply to overwhelm bodily defenses and ultimately kill the host.
While that is happening in some cases, evidence is growing that it isn’t nearly
as deadly as we were made to fear. Along with much lower death rates, there is
growing anecdotal evidence that the people who tested positive and then died
were victims of multiple conditions and it wasn’t the COVID-19 virus but a
synergy of the multiple attackers that killed them.
If some of the pneumonia cases and
deaths earlier this year were from coronavirus, that would mean that the death
rate is much lower than predicted. Even the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which
was the ultimate petri dish of recycled air circulating an infection, with an
elderly population, experienced a 1.25%
fatality rate. New York, which seems to be, by far, the worst hot spot now,
has a mortality rate hovering between 0.75% and 0.80%, and it is going down as
they test more cases. That compares to 1.2% nationwide, which helps show that
wherever we test and identify the virus, the numbers go way up, but the
mortality goes down.
And Clarice Feldman at American Thinker (after quoting Mr. Horowitz) concludes:
There seems little sound basis for
a countrywide lockdown as better data becomes available. Yes, special
protection must still be in place for the elderly and immune suppressed, and we
must continue to practice good hygiene, and yes, all available personnel and
supplies must go to those areas hardest hit, . . . I firmly believe we need to
get back to more normal commercial activity in most of the country as soon as
possible, and no later than Easter, or the consequences to the nation’s health
and well-being will be worse than that of the virus.
So, the Wuhan virus is highly contagious but not as lethal
as the scaremongers have proposed. And
treatments including the hard-to-pronounce drugs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
are proving effective. All good news.
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