re: So the US has 95k if the worlds 330k covid deaths?

Posted on 5/21/20 at 8:04 am to TigerDoc

Posted by Oilfieldbiology

Member since Nov 2016

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Posted on 5/21/20 at 8:04 am to TigerDoc

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For sure there have been some areas making progress, but the OP is sound considering the US has been considered the gold standard when it came to public health (e.g. when Ebola started multi-country spread in 2014, countries were looking to us for leadership). We've really taken a black eye here.

First, tell me where people died because they couldn’t receive care like was occurring in Europe.

Secondary, if we’ve take a black eye it’s because we went WAY too far with our restrictions.

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Posted by tigerinDC09

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Member since Nov 2011

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Posted on 5/21/20 at 8:08 am to Oilfieldbiology

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First, tell me where people died because they couldn’t receive care like was occurring in Europe.

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Gambrell's father Gary Fowler, 56, passed away in a recliner in the bedroom of his home in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, with Cheryl Fowler, his wife of more than 20 years, in bed nearby.

He was sleeping in the chair because he'd been struggling to breathe for days but he was never tested for the virus, despite knowing he had being exposed. His fever was so high that Gambrell said his father's body was still warm when it was taken to the funeral home more than five hours after his death.

Gambrell, 33, said his father, who had diabetes, was turned away from several hospitals in the Detroit area in the days leading to his death.

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