America trails most of the rest of the developed world.

What do you mean by among the best in the world? What numbers will you use to determine that?

 

Communist Cuba has the best medical system in the world according to Michael Moore. Their world renown hospitals and clinics are better than Mayos Clinic or Cleveland Clinic or Johns Hopkins. Asked where he wanted to go for cancer treatment, the President of Venezuela said Havana.

 

Four paragraphs making one point. Then your last paragraph simply denying your own evidence. Cognitive dissonance.

 

I wish it were not so, but I think you are going to be disappointed. Deaths will always lag the case numbers. These deaths you are seeing today are from cases infected and possibly identified 1-2 weeks ago. So a better approximation of the confirmed death rate while things are happening is today’s deaths divided by cases from 2 weeks ago. Because the cases since then haven’t finished their disease yet and we don’t know if they will die or not.

Also hospitals are getting overwhelmed in NY and that seems to be what determines the death rate. If you don’t get hospitals overwhelmed, you can keep the death rate around or less than 1%. Once the hospitals get overwhelmed, you are looking at 3-5% minimum.

By tomorrow the US will have more confirmed cases than China. Yes both have lots more unconfirmed cases than reported. Where as almost all of China’s cases have recovered, the US cases are just starting their disease progression. And there are already 1000 confirmed deaths in the US.

I’m not stating these things because I want it to be this bad in the US. I want people to see how bad it is so they can take the necessary actions to keep it from getting worse where they are. The type of health system is irrelevant. People need to social distance and cities/regions/states need to close their borders and severely restrict travel. This can be done in any health system. That is what will save lives and keep the situation in NY from repeating itself around the country.

 

Wow, everyone sure can trust the statistics of the Chinese commies! And the Russians, too. Nothing better than the word of a communist. Why, ole Bernie didn't get his millions by....

 

Sorry for your snarkiness. Yes, I know that they were quotes. My point is that you offered no evidence for that last comment that you glibly stated.

 

Some story line, new thread

Seemingly, some of you cannot wait for the stats to go up

 

Vox is incompetent and has no clue about science or technology.

 

Communist Cuba and Communist China working together have developed a new anti-viral drug to fight COVID-19, called IFNrec, short for Interferon Alpha-2B Recombinant. The major stumbling block is that the USA will not extend credit to the deadbeat Cubans who have not repaid a loan or a credit charge since 1959.

"Cuba has mobilized its medical corps around the world to distribute a new "wonder drug" that officials there say is capable of treating the new coronavirus despite the United States' strict sanctions that continue to pressure the communist-run island.

"The drug, called Interferon Alpha-2B Recombinant (IFNrec), is jointly developed by scientists from Cuba and China, where the coronavirus COVID-19 disease outbreak first emerged late last year. Already active in China since January, the Cuban Medical Brigades began deploying to dozens of nations, providing personnel and products such as its new anti-viral drug to battle the disease...."

Cuba uses "wonder drug" to fight coronavirus around the world despite U.S. sanctions

Meanwhile the bad orangeman is going to cause the deaths of almost 2 million Americans with his stupid policies:

Trump’s Crazy Coronavirus Math Will Kill as Many as 1.8 Million Americans

Trump’s Crazy Coronavirus Math Will Kill as Many as 1.8 Million Americans

 

Interferon alpha-2B, recombinant.

As in Intron-A which was patented in the US in 1986 and is now off patent and available in generics? Why does this cuban version matter?

https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/i/intron_a/intron_a_mg.pdf

March 2020 - When do the INTRON A patents expire, and when will biosimilar INTRON A enter the market?

 

I am just linking Cuban government information. Cuba is thought to have a better healthcare system than the USA.

 

Why do you always find a way to shoehorn Cuba into seemingly every conversation? What is with this obsession with Cuba?

 

Seems relevant since one of the two possible dim candidates has NOTHING BUT PRAISE for virtually "all things Cuban"!

 

Oh, you just want to talk about Beverly Hills where you live? You know that Cuba has a better healthcare system than the USA. Now Cuba has announced that they have a drug to cure Covid-19 and people are saying that Trump will cause the deaths of 1.8 million people in the USA alone so I really am agreeing with you. Don't you want the Cuban cure if you get sick, hmm? I didn't know that this bit of news was so complicated to understand. I thought that you would be happy to know that Cuba has a cure! Cuban doctors go all over the world but I think that the Orangeman is too racist to bring them here to help us in this crisis.

 

Whenever there is a chance to bash the US, leftists rush to the forefront. Me first!!!