Hantavirus Survival Rate: The Odds Are Brutal | The Joy Reid Show

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]With this hantavirus, it's a at least 40% for this Andes strain and even up to 50%.

[00:00:06]You have a 50% chance of passing away.

[00:00:08]No treatment, no cure. And you can think about it, administrations in the past very likely would have been actively working to come up with a vaccine.

[00:00:17]There's no There's no globally approved vaccine for hantavirus. And if I were a betting woman, I'd bet that your good old RFK Jr. is not exactly planning to come up with a vaccine. And so, I hate to be gloom and doom, but every point that you raised is so crystal clear, so valid. And so, all we can do is what we can do. For me, I share the evidence-based medical information and I make sure that I don't allow my viewers to be in a la-la land. No, I don't believe it'll be the next pandemic for the reasons I described, but I cannot sit here and promise that this virus won't mutate. And I can promise that our administration at this point is not giving us the protection that we deserve.