Covid 19 - a look at the future

Iggle 13088 posts Joined: Sep 14, 2007

Posted 9:47 am on Jun 17, 2020

This seems to be a reasonable article about what we can expect going forward. Michael Osterholm seems to be widely respected.

Link: https://www.bluezones.com/2020/06/covid-19-straight-answers-from-top-epidemiologist-who-predicted-the-pandemic/

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Covid 19 - a look at the futureLink Iggle 9:47am · 6/17/20
- Sounds like he has the important quality as scientist- honesty, i.e. a lot of "I don't know" in his Eli 2:09pm · 6/17/20
- Covid19 is not the leading cause of death in the US Nigel Tufnel 10:47am · 6/17/20
  - You can't catch heart disease and cancer at the supermarket.NT AlbanyIRISH 11:53am · 6/17/20
    - Obesity is a leading contributor to heart disease Nigel Tufnel 12:45pm · 6/17/20
      - 👍 Well doneNT ColeyO 1:50pm · 6/17/20
  - Take away Jan-March and the numbers are much closerNT Chris94 11:16am · 6/17/20
- Very objective. Now we need policies that reflect this reality. Curly1918 10:45am · 6/17/20
  - What we need is common feckin sense. This is why the pace and process of reopening was important. Frank L 11:04am · 6/17/20
    - Couple of things. If it’s trial and error, I err on the side of safety. Frank L 11:44am · 6/17/20
      - Responds to curls below.NT Frank L 11:44am · 6/17/20
    - We are groping in the dark on this. It's trial and error and above all, one size does not fit all.NT Curly1918 11:39am · 6/17/20
- This guy is great. I try to listen whenever he talks.NT Chris94 10:30am · 6/17/20
- Sobering and bleak. Also well explained. Hope he’s wrong on the death tolls. Has Sweden nailed.NT Frank L 10:00am · 6/17/20
- they’ve all been proven to be useless, we need a genius scientist, not a dime a dozen scientistNT holybull101 9:56am · 6/17/20
  - Are you and Hank T. Tank the same person?NT Chris94 10:31am · 6/17/20

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