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American Rate of Morbidity, C19, COVID-19, COVID-19 Distribution of Morbidity, COVID-19 Related Morbidity
Copied from the previous post to help make the image of the state of affairs clear.
This first preliminary description of outcomes among patients with COVID-19 in the United States indicates that fatality was highest in persons aged =85, ranging from 10% to 27%, followed by 3% to 11% among persons aged 65–84 years, 1% to 3% among persons aged 55-64 years, <1% among persons aged 20–54 years, and no fatalities among persons aged =19 years.
Annual Rate of Death for the United States of America
Number of deaths: 2,813,503
Death rate: 863.8 deaths per 100,000 population
Life expectancy: 78.6 years
Infant Mortality rate: 5.79 deaths per 1,000 live birthsNumber of deaths for leading causes of death:
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
BackChannels has more questions than answers in relation to the general stand-down of America’s basic restaurant, events, and services economy and related financial and labor impacts throughout the nation.
In the event of CBRN threats, emerging infectious diseases, or natural disasters, state, local, tribal, or territorial health departments may need medicines and medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile if local supplies are depleted. Through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) program, CDC collaborates with states and local jurisdictions to ensure they have plans and processes in place to receive and provide life-saving medicines and supplies.
https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/readiness/mcm.html
How much money have Federate and State governments poured into emergency preparedness in the region of Chemical Biological Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) preparedness?
Who else?
One more note–
The simplest way to judge whether we have an exceptionally lethal disease is to look at the death rates. Are more people dying than we would expect to die anyway in a given week or month? Statistically, we would expect about 51,000 to die in Britain this month. At the time of writing, 422 deaths are linked to Covid-19 — so 0.8 per cent of that expected total. On a global basis, we’d expect 14 million to die over the first three months of the year. The world’s 18,944 coronavirus deaths represent 0.14 per cent of that total. These figures might shoot up but they are, right now, lower than other infectious diseases that we live with (such as flu). Not figures that would, in and of themselves, cause drastic global reactions.
Lee, John. “How deadly is the coronavirus? It’s still far from clear.” The Spectator, March 28, 2020.
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Renwick, Danielle. “Is coronavirus hitting young Americans harder than we thought?” The Guardian, April 1, 2020.
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When serving as a Naval officer, foresight placed a stop loss order on my designator (2905) as a critical need during Gulf II.
When Wuhan exploded, foresight should have propagated an Executive Order for stop loss on PPE by locking down all exports of the same. Foreign markets were flooded with our product, creating a national security risk for our medical staffing infrastructure.
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For the less initiated, “PPE” means “Personal Protective Equipment” — https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/personalprotectiveequipment/ .
The Atlantic has commentary by Anne Applebaum regarding our national absence of readiness in the face of this pandemic whose social existence — not N Cases but rather whom it’s killing within a broad demographic framework — is becoming clear — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-showed-america-wasnt-task/608023/ 3/15/2020.
BC wants to help business owners and labor get back to work — or get through their bout with C19 — while those more in the target zone get the bump in ER-type capacity to survive their ordeal or pass on, either, with the comfort, decency, and dignity that modern medical best practices might allow.
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