{"id":1376,"date":"2020-12-05T06:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T06:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2020-12-05T06:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T06:21:19","slug":"facts-not-fear-will-stop-the-wuhan-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"Facts, Not Fear, Will Stop the Wuhan-Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While most of the media coverage about Covid is negative, there is a lot of good news to tell. The&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/10\/20\/925441975\/studies-point-to-big-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates\" target=\"_blank\">case fatality rate from the virus has dropped<\/a>&nbsp;sharply since March. The&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marktaliano.net\/publication-bulletin-of-the-world-health-organization-infection-fatality-rate-of-covid-19-john-p-a-ioannidis\/\" target=\"_blank\">infection survival rate<\/a>&nbsp;is 99.95 percent for people under 70 and 95 percent for people over 70. Hospitals are much&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/christosmakridis\/2020\/09\/25\/good-news-on-covid-19-fuels-economic-optimism-and-remarkable-drop-in-unemployment-insurance-claims\/?sh=3eec693d4e5b\" target=\"_blank\">better equipped<\/a>&nbsp;to handle patients, with&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2020\/07\/08\/new-covid-study-reduced-death-rates-ventilator-requirements-hospital-stays\/\" target=\"_blank\">improved ventilator protocols<\/a>, improved&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7410805\/\" target=\"_blank\">management of outpatients<\/a>&nbsp;and new&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/christosmakridis\/2020\/08\/24\/fda-convalescent-plasma-treatment-offers-hope-for-permanent-reopening\/?sh=4fccb401b718\" target=\"_blank\">therapeutic strategies<\/a>&nbsp;to provide relief and recoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/healthcare\/528612-facts-not-fear-will-stop-the-pandemic\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/healthcare\/528612-facts-not-fear-will-stop-the-pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of the media coverage about Covid is negative, there is a lot of good news to tell. The&nbsp;case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-archive"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}