anyone have a sense of what the fatality rate for covid19 would be *without* modern medical capabilities? the comparisons to spanish flu seem harder to make since that pre-dated ventilators and antibiotics (both dating to 1928) for eg
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they did have oxygen and epinephrine though (how does that help pneumonia?)pic.twitter.com/JvstWsIlMN
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This is unclear. In part bcs "overweight" has become a politocultural term not a medical term. Look at https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241523151.html … which sounds bad " 64 percent of coronavirus patients in intensive care units in the United Kingdom were overweight" except, oh, 60% of UK overweight.
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they couldn't treat pneumonia, however they *did* have a method for preventing it -- hydrotherapy. apparently there's a study from a sanitarium that had an in-patient death rate of only 1.3%.
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erm, it was actually religious periodical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1LHgyfPPQ8 … (periodical discussion starts at about 12:40)
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