{"id":38313,"date":"2020-03-03T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38313"},"modified":"2020-03-03T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:03:38","slug":"you-might-not-have-read-this-in-the-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38313","title":{"rendered":"You Might Not Have Read This In The Mainstream Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Western Journal<\/a> posted some comments by Dr. Marc Siegel, a professor of medicine at New York University, a medical correspondent for Fox News, and the author of \u201cFalse Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article reports Dr. Siegel’s comments:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been handling these emerging contagions for about 20 years now, and I have to tell you, I\u2019ve never seen one handled better,\u201d Dr. Marc Siegel said regarding the actions of President Donald Trump since the coronavirus first emerged as a concern in January.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cThe task force are really top players,\u201d said Siegel, noting the inclusion of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci is \u201cone of the top infectious disease experts in the country,\u201d he noted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been doing exactly what they\u2019re supposed to be doing,\u201d he said, listing actions Trump has called for such as \u201crestricting travel, isolating patients who are sick and, trying to cut down on contact. It\u2019s a very hard thing to do when people are pouring in from all over the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist, and Dr. Nancy Messonnier<\/a>, an expert in vaccines who has been sounding the alarm about the virus, are also important members, he said, though he believes the \u201cdoom and gloom comment\u201d about the inevitable spread of the virus was uncalled for.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Siegel said that the coronavirus is different from diseases such as SARS or the flu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSARS had about a ten percent mortality [rate], but it only affected about 8,000 people. Swine flu had a very, very low mortality for flu, but flu itself really only causes about a point-four percent death rate, and [coronavirus] is about one-point-four percent. So this is killing more than flu, but I want to make a couple of points that will reassure people,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOne, at the beginning of an emerging contagion, it always appears more deadly than it actually is. The 1918 flu is an exception, but normally as time goes on, it\u2019s less deadly, and part of that is because you see more immunity appearing, and you also find a lot of milder cases \u2014 or even cases where people don\u2019t get sick at all. You find that as you start to test more people,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also noted that people who were infected but never got sick do not show up in statistics, making the virus seem more deadly than it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bottom line here is that the coronavirus is serious, but it is not the 1918 flu. Wash your hands, and use common sense. Winter is ending, and hopefully the flu season will end with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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