A state of emergency remains in effect tonight across #FultonCounty and the City of Atlanta’s curfew will begin at 9 p.m. You and your safety matter. Please #StayHomeStaySafe
I remind myself the rest of the country didn’t experience what we did in NYC.
Nor did most of my physician colleagues.
Or even my ER colleagues across the US.
Yet today the US reported it’s highest #COVID19 death toll to date.
You don’t want to experience what we experienced.
NY has given $116 billion more to the federal government than we received since 2015.
Kentucky *took* $148 billion more from the federal government than it gave.
Just give NY our money back, Senator McConnell.
We can compare #COVID19 1% infection fatality rate with an expected >80% attack rate (R0 of ~3) to seasonal influenza with 0.1% IFR and yearly attack rate of ~10%. Simple math would put unmitigated spread as >80X worse than a typical flu season.
https://t.co/uLHDQz0Fqq
There is a lot of Twitter chatter surrounding a rumor that circulation of #COVID19 in California in fall 2019 has resulted in herd immunity. This is empirically not the case. COVID-19 was first introduced into the USA in Jan/Feb 2020. 1/18