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maschera n99, An emergency medicine physician and instructor at Harvard Medical School wrote in Slate, “If this turns out to be common, it’s a good thing. It implies that the case fatality rate — the number of deaths divided by the number of infections — of this novel coronavirus is likely to be far, far lower than the reported statistics.” Currently, reports are there are over 100,000 known coronavirus cases around the world (more than 80,000 of which are in China), with more than 3,000 deaths worldwide as of this writing.

maschera n99 - You still wouldn’t know that based on the reaction in media and the nature of the news coverage in general. Political opponents of President Trump and the legacy media apparently see the coronavirus as a crisis they don’t want to waste. Consider that flu season has been upon us and continues to wreak havoc, yet there’s never a peep from the bureaucratic establishment. The flu is an inconvenient issue for them because they can’t blame Mr. Trump for it. But something new with some uncertainty attached can be fashioned into another arrow with which to strike the president.

maschera n99, If the bureaucratic establishment, Democrats and media really cared about the impact of a pandemic on the condition of people’s lives, they would be comparably up in arms over what happens during flu season. ABC News reported “flu deaths are up more than 65 percent so far in 2020, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that 4,800 people have died and 87,000 people have been hospitalized.” Moreover, 18,000 people have died in the United States alone since the beginning of 2019-2020 flu season with 280,000 people hospitalized. The CDC estimates 29 million people have gotten the flu so far, ABC reported. In just one week during the mid-February coronavirus panic, 13 children died of the flu in the United States, according to the CDC.

maschera n99 - CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER For the flu, we are told our best bet is to get the flu shot. That is important, as indicated by the number of deaths and the impact of any viral illness on the infirm, those with immune disorders, the elderly and children. The problem is, the flu shot is guesswork. We never know what strain will appear in the next season so they guess at the strain for the vaccine. Last year, it was just 29 percent effective. For the 2019-20 season, the vaccine is estimated to be 45 percent effective overall.

maschera n99 - Getting the vaccine is important, but so is the understanding that it is not a guarantee of protection. And this is one of the biggest failures of the political medical system — the lack of honesty when it comes to the flu and the fact that you are still at some risk even with the shot. The silver lining about the establishment and media obsession with coronavirus is the instructions to avoid it are virtually identical to actions that should be taken to avoid the flu. So by default, we at least are hearing information that will assist us in a genuine way to stay healthy.