Wed, Mar 18 at 10:42 AM
This Doctor is telling you you have the panic pandemic not the reality based influenza normal threat that is much more totally important.

Any death and sickness is too much. But what should the USA prioritize?

See Johns Hopkins web sites.

C19 world cases: 207,000. Deaths 8,000 = 3.8% of diagnosed cases. Data is of poor quality confounded by testing rates, selection of tested subjects etc. Not good science guys.

Numbers of undiagnosed & mild infections, just like influenza, presenting as a sniffle or common cold or URI. There is no such thing as a ‘flu” as the word is commonly used. Untested folks and numbers do not enter into statistics that would LOWER the death rate computations. 1,000s more with limited symptoms and Influenza than C19.

C19 US cases: 7,000. Deaths 55 = 0.07% Data and scientific reliability issues equally suspect.

INFLUENZA USA Cases: 26-29,000,000 (millions not thousands) cases in above average year. Deaths 24,-14,000. Death rate = 0.09% Per CDC.
Influenza deaths / C19 deaths = 24,-14,000 / 55.

Influenza vaccine is available and safe despite anti vax hysteria. Ask any real doctor if they give influenza vaccine to their own kids and families- vast majority will say yes. Yet only 50% of USA gets influenza vaccine that, this year, is 45-55% effective per CDC. So 7,000-12,000 preventable annual USA influenza deaths vs 55 from C19- if there was a C19 vaccine. All of this noise is about precisely the wrong thing per real scientific data and social/personal impact.

We don’t waste billions and execute our economy and social /personal lives based on the every year event of Influenza, which is much worse for deaths, real costs, and morbidity. C19 is a pimple on a log. Please don’t make it a PANICDEMIC.

By not providing this background rate. Yahoo is only actively spreading disinformation, putting emotion before reality. Yes, keep reporting on C19, but you are overlooking a much bigger but less flashy issue!!! PLEASE!!!

I am a Board Certified Pediatrician with 39 years experience including private, group and state government practice as well as Senior Medical Director roles for multi-state private and public insurers, hospital sytems and HMOs. Licensed in 6 states, now retired.

The CDC recommends that Senior Citizens stock up on food and other non-food supplies and hunker down at home if possible! Here is the issue with that Senior Citizens only receive monthly Social Security checks and they don't always fall at the beginning of the month. I and my husband are Senior Citizens his check comes the 3rd Wednesday of the month...mine arrives on the 4th Wednesday each month. We do not have a car any longer it broke down just before Halloween in 2019, we rely on our neighbors for transportation which we are happy to help them with gasoline expenses as this is only right. When it's time to go grocery shopping which will be this coming Wednesday we might be faced with possibly not being able to buy what we need due to hoarding. This Coronavirus will run its course and some Media affiliates are overdramatizing it as if it was Bubonic Plague, now there is hoarding in the Grocery Stores...Supplies are being triple shipped if not more due to hoarding. Now we all will be dealing with ( Supply & Demand ) price increases due to the hoarding. These individuals hoarding more than likely have jobs...children...bills to pay...along with cars to get them to and from were they need to go. Now the manufacturers are more than likely going to increase the prices of those products due to the hoarding knowing they can get it. When this CoVid 19 is over it has run its course...now these hoarders have no money for their bills...Credit cards are maxed out but they have their supplies of goods and others do not...heres the kicker though...now these hoarders are crying about the increase of all those supplies being too high in price at the same store's where they bought them from just a month or so ago all due to over Media panic has set in their Minds in believing everything that is told to them through the Main Stream Media...as for Fox News, this is a different story...sure you have to comply with some of this only due to your Corporate levels and procedures within the Governmental Law. We live in a Rural town with NO Public Transportation...NO Taxi's...not all Seniors have cash on hand for Dail-A-Ride, which is also limited and the costs are about $5.00 to $ 7.00 dollars one way and when you live in the outskirts of the main Rural Town then it gets worse. Now when its time for us to go grocery shopping we will usually do it for a month at that time...but now these hoarders have put us those Senior Citizen in Jeopardy to over HOARDING...this needs to be addressed NOW by either you Fox News or pass it along to the Governor...Someone needs to listen to the Voices of those Senior Citizens. Karen Arnold, I live in Portland Township, in Ionia, Michigan.