Edit update, April 15, 2020
"Edit update Sunday, April 5, 2020) This was one of the first articles I found where a news station reported that seniors were at risk, but no numbers were cited. The article was dated January 30, 2018). End of update Sunday, April 5, 2020)
Edit update: Sunday, March 29, 2020)
Chart origins can be found by clicking here. The biggest red spike in the chart is from the end of 2017 and into the first month or two of 2018 and does not include ALL the flu/pneumonia deaths that were deceitfully labeled as elder heart attacks, respiratory issues, or natural causes. (End of Sunday, March 29, 2020 update.)
In Italy they are having to decide who gets treated for Coronavirus and who gets turned away. In the U.S. this practice is called EMTALA and is supposed to be illegal.
If the illegal practice of turning away patients (EMTALA) had been exposed during the U.S. Senior Flu epidemic of 2017-2018, this country would have had a huge head start over Pandemic, epidemic, and Coronavirus readiness in 2020 and would have also given the world a heads up about Pandemic readiness. While we accuse China for the "China Virus", the U.S. had it's own Senior Flu epidemic in 2017-2018 and the CDC hid the Senior Death numbers until after the flu epidemic had passed.
The Center for Disease Control covered up the 2017-2018 Senior Death counts until after the 2017-2018 U.S. Senior Flu epidemic had passed.
"Hospitalizations are the highest we've seen, even higher than 2014-2015," said Anne Schuchat, CDC Acting Director. "And some hospitals are crowded, some folks are having difficulty finding anti-viral medicines."
Flu tallies don't include victims over 65, like two brothers found deceased in a camper in Moraga last month. The Contra Costa County coroner now says they died of "natural causes" and both had influenza in their systems.If my reminders about my Mother's elder abuse / EMTALA violation in the ER in March of 2018 had been taken seriously and actually investigated they would have raised awareness about how fragile our ER readiness was and would have reduced the level of economic upheaval in 2020 being caused by not having enough Hospital beds and ventilators available. And let's not forget not enough masks, gloves, and hospital gowns.
The flatten the curve battle plan is caused in large part by not being health crisis ready because we have too few beds and far too few ventilators.
How we treat the elderly is where we find our real level of integrity and strength. The CDC covering up our mistreatment of the elderly during the "2017-2018 U.S. Senior Flu epidemic" that was never reported as such... is now being paid forward.
We are reaping what we sowed back in 2017-2018.
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