I know every facebook blowhard witters on about death rates and how everyone is just being a whiny snowflake, but look at those numbers from Italy. 40% of people who have it are in hospital. Forty Percent. Forty.
Also, in the Italian group you noted, the question is why such a high hospitalization rate? Was it in part because of fear of a new disease so the hospitalization was precautionary and/or a de facto quarantine?
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Ultimately, all I’m saying is that the 40% hospitalization rate stat seems scary but probably is misleading in a way that overstates the severity of the virus. Keeping an eye on the emerging mortality rate is a better way to gauge severity.
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Yeah I think the risk to you or I individually isn’t massive. But I look at the UK with patients already on trolleys in corridors due to a lack of beds and only 150k beds in the entire country and scale up a single digit percentage of millions and see some major issues.
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Yes I think that’s a very good point. A lot of that will be trying to control spread. Only 10% in critical care.
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