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nix — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:17:37 +0000

I note that this is not Italy's fault. *Nowhere* has enough ventilators to cope with this, because before now nobody imagined that several percent of the population might need breathing assistance at the same time.

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zwenna — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:58:03 +0000

> The 2-3% mortality rate is of people sick enough to go to a hospital, not of people infected by the virus. The later figure is currently unknown, but it will be significantly lower.

This assumes that those people sick enough to go to a hospital can actually be given adequate treatment there. What happens if this is not the case can be seen in Italy.

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Jonno — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:23:18 +0000

> The German government announced yesterday that they expect 60% to 70% of the German population to be infected with the "Coronavirus" (SARS-CoV-2). At a lethality rate of 2-3% and given a population of 83 million that means 996.000 to 1.743.000 people will die in Germany alone.

The 2-3% mortality rate is of people sick enough to go to a hospital, not of people infected by the virus. The later figure is currently unknown, but it will be significantly lower. The current best estimate is 0.6%, but that is based on extensive testing of a single South Korean community, and thus not necessarily globally representative...

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pizza — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:17:32 +0000

And even the "too little too late" reaction by European authorities is an order of magnitude better than what the US government has done -- and that's even before one considers the head start that (generally) universal health care brings to European societies.

(I live in Florida, aka "God's Waiting Room" -- it's going to get _really_ bad here..)

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wx — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:53:46 +0000

No. This is good news. Every cancelled event, every social interaction you avoid, heck, every step you do not step outside the door of your home is *good news*. It will *save lives*. It might even save your own life.

The German government announced yesterday that they expect 60% to 70% of the German population to be infected with the "Coronavirus" (SARS-CoV-2). At a lethality rate of 2-3% and given a population of 83 million that means 996.000 to 1.743.000 people will die in Germany alone. This is an *optimistic* estimate as it assumes a semi-functioning health system. There are some early indications that a collapse will happen because the authorities across Europe have done too little too late. The actual lethality rate will likely be much higher.

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mageta — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:39:43 +0000

This sucks.