The charts that Cuomo displayed as he spoke were fake news, and completely wrong.

NY Gov Cuomo Shows Incorrect Information During Chinese Virus Briefing

One of the slides showed a graph from the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic showing false information and reversing the stats for St Louis and Philadelphia – when St Louis shut down the city to stop the spread of the 1918 Spanish flu and saw much better results than Philadelphia, who did not take the steps that St Louis did to stop the virus.

The facts are just the opposite than the fake news that Cuomo was pushing, and the actions taken by the city of St Louis in 1918 helped reduce the death rate from the Spanish flu epidemic to less than half the rate of Philadelphia.

Here is the real graph, with accurate information.

1918 Spanish flu epidemic – St Louis vs Philadelphia

NY Gov Cuomo should make sure to get his facts straight when he gives the American People information about the Chinese COVID19 virus.

In 1918, the city of Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people. Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled with sick and dying patients, infected by the Spanish flu.

By the end of the week, more than 4,500 were dead in an outbreak that would claim as many as 100 million people worldwide. By the time Philadelphia’s politicians closed down the city, it was too late.

A different story played out in St. Louis, just 900 miles away. Within two days of detecting its first cases among civilians, the city closed schools, playgrounds, libraries, courtrooms, and even churches. Work shifts were staggered and streetcar ridership was strictly limited. Public gatherings of more than 20 people were banned.

The extreme measures—now known as social distancing, which is being called for by global health agencies to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus—kept per capita flu-related deaths in St. Louis to less than half of those in Philadelphia, according to a 2007 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The concept of “flattening the curve” is now a textbook public health response to epidemics, including the spread of Covid-19. Once a virus can no longer be contained, the goal is to slow its spread. Exponential growth in infections leaves health care systems struggling to handle the surge. But with fewer people sick at once (and overall), services aren’t overwhelmed and deaths diminish. This buys time for doctors to treat the flood of patients and researchers to develop vaccines and antiviral therapies.

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