People, stop comparing the US healthcare system to Italy’s to explain away the COVID-19 risk. A valid comparison would be Italy with normal flu versus Italy with this one. They are not similar.
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what's the source for this? Also there's a huge difference in healthcare resources between the north and the south of italy
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Some rough numbers... Italy seems to have 12.5 beds / 100k people and the US is roughly 25/100k. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Numbers-of-critical-care-beds-corrected-for-size-of-population-per-100-000-inhabitants_fig1_229013572 … andhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551445/ …
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Scott - what are your main sources for COVID19 info?
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Great point. Makes sense from a business standpoint. Socialized healthcare is not your best bet under black swan events.
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