This was good to know for perspective
80% of cases are mild
Based on all 72,314 cases of COVID-19 confirmed, suspected, and asymptomatic cases in China as of February 11, a paper by the Chinese CCDC released on February 17 and published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology has found that:
80.9% of infections are mild (with flu-like symptoms) and can recover at home.
13.8% are severe, developing severe diseases including pneumonia and shortness of breath.
4.7% as critical and can include: respiratory failure, septic shock, and multi-organ failure.
in about 2% of reported cases the virus is fatal.
Risk of death increases the older you are.
Relatively few cases are seen among children.
That's the problem. 20% are NOT mild...they require medical attention.
There are something like 964,000 total hospital beds in the USA.
If only 3,000,000 people get infected that's 600,000 hospitalizations. It would take far less than that to overwhelm our health care system. THAT'S why governments were trying to stop it. The US just didn't even try really.
Where are these stats from? Thanks.