Report: US Hospitals Preparing For 96 Million Coronavirus Infections And Nearly 500,000 Deaths

Daily Mail: US hospitals are preparing for 96 MILLION coronavirus infections and nearly HALF A MILLION deaths, leaked documents reveal

* Almost half a million (480,000) Americans are expected to die from coronavirus
* 4.8 million will be hospitalized and 96 million infected
* Figures come from leaked slides from a presentation by Dr. James Lawler, a University of Nebraska Medical Center professor and hosted by AHA
* They show the spread of the deadly disease could be far worse than officials claim, with the crisis 10 times greater than a severe flu season
* The shock figures fly in the face of claims made by President Trump who has maintained on many occasions that the risk to Americans is 'low'
* Lawler estimated people with heart conditions have a one in 10 chance of dying from the disease, compared to less than one in a 100 among healthy individuals
* Trump signed a spending bill to allocate $8.3 billion to tackle the crisis Friday
* US has more than 430 cases and 19 confirmed deaths, after Florida confirmed its first two deaths Friday

US hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths from the outbreak, leaked documents have revealed.

The spread of the deadly disease could be far worse than officials claim, with 480,000 Americans expected to die from the virus and 4.8 million hospitalized, according to a presentation hosted by The American Hospital Association (AHA) in February.

This puts the crisis on a level more than 10 times greater than that seen in a severe flu season.

The shock figures fly in the face of claims made by President Trump who has maintained on many occasions that the risk to Americans is 'low'.

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WNU Editor: This appears to be a worst-case scenario. But as I mentioned in the previous post, summer is coming and illnesses like this one taper off.

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