Chesnie Heart Health

Subject: Virus We wanted to keep people up to date the best we can. Vicky and I attended a virtual Town Hall meeting on Thursday evening for the medical staff of Hoag Hospital, with our chief infection control physician giving us the following information: As of Wednesday, March 18th, there were 42 cases of Coronavirus in Orange County....Continue reading

I’m finding it distressing that the media outlets are showing the daily counts every moment of the day! Worldwide and US daily numbers of new cases of Coronavirus and daily death counts! ...And, the percentage increases daily! THIS CREATES NOTHING BUT FEAR! If only they would post next to this information the US year to date influenza rates, the total number of cases (greater than 20,000,000),the number of hospitalizations, (greater than 500,000), the number of deaths (grea...ter than 20,000). Perhaps this would help create perspective. To try and help create further perspective, the 2019 death rate in the US from all of heart disease was about 840,000. Of these, about 366,000 were from Sudden Cardiac Death. There were about 750,000 myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) in the US last year. Of these, about 400,000 die from the heart attack and from heart failure. There were also over 140,000 deaths from stroke. We are biological and we’re on the planet for only a limited period of time. I just spoke with a close friend who is a physician and both he and his wife tested positive for the Coronavirus and they have been quarantined at home the past 2 weeks. They both had a sore throat, fever, mild flu-like illness, and they are getting better. We should all be respectful of this illness, and I hope that this information provides some perspective and helps lessen The Fear Count!

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