Corona Virus Member Discussion

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by Crush

The governor from California just announced that 56% of the people in California or 25 million people will get the coronavirus. Tell me that isn’t creating mass hysteria! that is ridiculous for a leader to be saying those types of things. What stats support that?

California estimates that more than half of the state — 25.5 million people — will get the new coronavirus over the next eight weeks, according to a letter sent by Gov. Gavin Newsom to U.S. President Donald Trump.

“In the last 24 hours, we had 126 new COVID-19 cases, a 21 percent increase. In some parts of our state, our case rate is doubling every four days,” Newsom wrote in a letter dated Wednesday. Newsom asked Trump to dispatch the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to the Port of Los Angeles through Sept. 1 to help with the influx of expected cases.

California like New York are no longer on a curve. It's literally a straight line pointed up - the number of new cases per day. This is happening because widespread testing is now available and revealing that more people have the virus then was thought to have. Due to community spread - people who have the virus coming in contact with others - is creating a domino affect. If left uncheck (not enforcing mandatory self quarantine and social distancing) it may definitely reach that 25.5 million number. That number is a worst cast scenario BTW. Also keep in mind that the government is about to open the federal coffers and states are going to want lots of money especially as our government is now in a giving/lending mode.

They are no longer worrying about the death rate. Today's concern is overwhelming our hospitals and medical systems along with shortages of respirators and medical supplies .