The last pandemic was actually in 2009, with the Swine Flu pandemic. This has seemed to be worse, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. It's unclear exactly what the mortality rate is, for one thing. There is also the fact that the spread is remarkably quick. We can expect a massive increase in diagnoses with or without testing. That's been the pattern so far around the world and it will replicate here.
On the one hand, anywhere from 300 to 650 thousand people die every year of the flu. If some of the epidemiological predictions are accurate, we could see numbers like that in the US alone. About 400,000 American died of all causes during World War II. Compress those numbers into six months.
It doesn't help that the leadership of this country is completely unequal to the task before it.
No comments:
Post a Comment