When Bruce Aylward gave a press conference on #covid19 this week in Geneva, he said: "The single biggest lesson is speed. Speed is everything and what worries me most is, has the rest of the world learned the lesson of speed?" It seems clear to me the world hasn’t. Quick thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1234122003902291969.html https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1234122003902291969 Suffice to say, we are constantly behind the eight ball. By the time we diagnose one case, that case has already infected hundreds of others. What to do? Self Quarantine until this pandemic blows over. Since Australia is having an outbreak/epidemic, don't expect this to blow over in summer. Its summer time in Australia. #Professor Neil Ferguson Tried to Tell us the Same Thing ~ Multiply Publicly Shared Numbers by 100!!! REAL INSIDER NUMBERS, FROM IRAN ARE STAGGERING BEYOND BELIEF! https://poal.co/s/GreatAwakening/150829 ----- #The USA is NOT Ready for COVID19. Not enough Hospital Beds, Not enough Ventilator Machines, not enough ICU beds, not enough Isolation rooms......etc. Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing 2) in earlier post, there was evidence that large # of critically ill needed a ventilator machine and for long duration. There’s barely enough ICU beds and ventilator machines for current patients in US. We are not ready. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1234158498180669440 ---- Exactly. #Some quick very low-ball numbers. -3% of the US becomes infected ~10M persons. -14-19% Severity rate ~1.4M-1.9M persons **-ICU within the US has roughly 120K beds TOTAL**, most of which are used at one point or another. -Mortality Rates can skyrocket under this. https://twitter.com/ktbass89/status/1231001507178467328