She is, in fact, mistaken that younger, healthy adult individuals are not at risk. The last figure I read-- published today-- was that 38% of cases involve individuals between 20 and 54 years old.
The English newspaper Daily Mail reports today that
"Research from the US revealed that younger adults are at risk of becoming seriously ill because of the novel coronavirus.
"Although those who are oldest, aged 80 and above, have the greatest risk of dying, a sizeable portion of those hospitalized were younger, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"Among 508 US patients known to have been hospitalized between February 12 and March 16, 38 percent were between ages 20 and 54.
"And roughly 47 percent of 121 patients taken to intensive care units were under age age 65, the CDC found.
"But older people were far more likely to die from the disease once in hospital - with almost three quarters of deaths occurring in those aged over 65."
More important, according to her argument, a bioweapon "debilitates an economy." Presumably she means the economies of China, Iran and Italy, though as we now see, if such an unleashing occurred-- if the entire outbreak does not stem from a regrettable, even forgivable, accident-- it has affected every country in the world, including the US, whose President started by saying that the novel coronavirus was "no big deal."
Now, China is an authoritarian state, and writes in a text that virtually no American besides Chinese-Americans can read in the original. Thus there is no way to have real confidence in anything it reports (yes, I do trust Anderson Cooper and George Stephanopoulos more than Chinese Communist Party representatives).
We in America are not privy to most of what China says in its information dissemination (rightwingers would say propaganda) to its own people, or to the world at large. And there is no question that one of the primary reactions American conservative powers-that-be have to anything Chinese-- no matter how Trump may bluster-- is fear.
But why Italy? I still am hard-put to believe that the United States, or anybody in power in the United States, would have such animus against Italy as to want to bring mass murder against it. Italy is neither Shi'ite nor Communist. It is one of the two national areas most responsible for the birth and development of all European culture, and the most ancient center of Christian organized religion.
On February 28, Wade Shepard, of Forbes Magazine, explained the complicated (perhaps, to use a term often used to describe Chinese thought, inscrutable) Chinese economic initiative known as Belt and Road, and Iversen terms "Silk Road":
"China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is nothing if not vague. Is it a blanket term for all Chinese overseas economic, social and political activities? Is it a specific set of coordinated policy that's exclusive to Beijing-led international endeavors? What projects are officially Belt and Road? Where do the corridors actually go? What countries are truly participating? Nearly seven years into the initiative, we are still asking these questions as Beijing attempts to wrangle back its message from private firms and enterprising governments that have unscrupulously been using the Belt and Road brand for their own gains, dragging its reputation through the proverbial mud and putting the future of the initiative in jeopardy."
Iversen says that (as the New York Times reported) Italy "blindsided" the US and Pompeo, and the EU, in March, 2019 ("about a year ago") by signing on with "China's vast new One Belt One Road global infrastructure project," in a move that "signalled a geopolitical shift from west to east."
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