This information is from February 26th – 2 weeks ago. Think about that fact and what the government was telling us (and still is) at that time. The second issue is that they assume a case fatality rate of 0.5% instead of the 3.5% that seems to be the average. Italy’s CFR is 8%. The number of dead at 3.5% is 3.36 million people.
David DeGerolamo
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Leaked medical conference documents have warned that hospitals across the United States are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections. Not only that, but the same document wants hospitals to make preparations for 480,000 deaths from this outbreak.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) conference in February reveal that US hospitals are preparing for:
- 96 million coronavirus infections
- 4.8 million hospitalizations from the infection
- 480,000 deaths in the United States
According to Business Insider, these leaked documents are telling. Dr. James Lawler, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, presented the harrowing “best guess” estimates of the extent of the outbreak to hospitals and health professionals as part of the AHA webinar called What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know: Preparing for the COVID-19 on February 26.