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Covid-19 Coronavirus Outbreak: Is the United States Government Covering Up the Spread of the Disease?
Edit: Thanks for all the responses I’ve already gotten with this piece. Find a quick FAQ regarding risks and common misconceptions here, and the WHO’s report on the virus here.
Recently making the rounds online, an article from the CDC website entitled “Interim U.S. Guidance for Risk Assessment and Public Health Management of Healthcare Personnel with Potential Exposure in a Healthcare Setting to Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)” is upsetting healthcare workers everywhere. The simple explanation: “They’re throwing doctors and nurses under the bus.”
The fact of the matter is that the coronavirus is about half again as deadly as the most recent plague on the books by current estimates (about 3.4% mortality as opposed to 2.5% mortality associated with the Spanish Flu of 1918) and doctors and nurses are among the highest-risk populations in the US, as the patients who will soon be flooding into the hospitals and doctors’ offices of this nation will expose each and every one of them to a variety of hostile pathogens, including multiple strains of the rapidly mutating coronavirus.
To understand how unbelievably stupid it is to allow healthcare workers to go to work sick if they choose to and to remove basic…
