Coronaflu: CDC Releases Statistics Showing 78% of People in the ICU Have Preexisting Conditions

Daily Stormer
April 3, 2020

The media actually does report some of the facts about what is going on on the ground, it’s just that they themselves don’t appear to understand what they imply. And the reader surely doesn’t.

Fat, old and sickly people have always been the people who are vulnerable to the flu. There is nothing at all new here.

Reuters:

The coronavirus has been a far deadlier threat in New Orleans than the rest of the United States, with a per-capita death rate much higher than in New York City. Doctors, public health officials and available data say the Big Easy’s high levels of obesity and related ailments may be part of the problem.

“We’re just sicker,” said Rebekah Gee, who until January was the Health Secretary for Louisiana and now heads up Louisiana State University’s healthcare services division. “We already had tremendous healthcare disparities before this pandemic – one can only imagine they are being amplified now.”

Along with New York and Seattle, New Orleans has emerged as one of the early U.S. hotspots for the coronavirus, making it a national test case for how to control and treat the disease. Chief among the concerns raised by doctors working in the Louisiana city is the death rate, which is seven times that of New York and ten times that of Seattle, based on publicly reported data.

New Orleans residents suffer from obesity, diabetes and hypertension at rates higher than the national average, conditions that doctors and public health officials say can make patients more vulnerable to COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.

Some 97% of those killed by COVID-19 in Louisiana had a preexisting condition, according to the state health department. Diabetes was seen in 40% of the deaths, obesity in 25%, chronic kidney disease in 23% and cardiac problems in 21%.

New Orleans, which so far has reported more than 270 coronavirus deaths, could be a harbinger for the potential toll the pandemic could take in other parts of the South and Midwest that also have high rates of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.

It’s the same elsewhere in the world. In Italy, for instance, over 99% of “coronavirus” deaths were people who had preexisting conditions. A lot of them died from something else and just happened to test positive for Coronavirus after they died, so they got counted in the stats.

Hospitals are reporting cases across the generations -mothers and daughters, fathers and sons – being intubated and cared for in the same intensive care units (ICUs), said Tracey Moffatt, the chief nursing officer at Ochsner Health, the largest healthcare provider in Louisiana. The prevalence of obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease in New Orleans and Louisiana plays into that, she said.

Those family members often suffered from the same medical conditions before becoming sick, leaving them similarly vulnerable to the coronavirus despite their age gaps.

Translation: those family members often suffered from the same sicknesses before becoming even sicker with literally just the flu.

Obesity is a sickness.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released for the first time this week a report showing that 78% of COVID-19 patients in ICUs in the United States had an underlying health condition, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic lung disease.

The CDC report was based on a sample of under 6% of reported coronavirus infections, but doctors in Louisiana said it was consistent with what they are seeing, and it is in line with what other countries like Italy and China have faced.

Everyone is being forced into a lockdown and told to sit tight and watch as the economy collapses because of mass hysteria.

Even if this virus were something other than the flu – it isn’t, but let’s just suppose it was – it would still only be targeting the exact same people that the flu targets, the only difference being that it doesn’t kill nearly as many people as the flu.