yes, we did, 30% developed RDS and it got crazy from there
here’s the study that mentioned it, dated Feb 4:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457920300265?via%3Dihub
China has posited that the high rate of mortality in Wuhan was prior exposure to SARS. I’m not sure if Italy was involved with the SARS, but they’re a good test of that Chinese claim.
” Individuals suffering the most may have been primed by one or more prior coronavirus exposures, and due to antigenic epitope heterogeneity, are experiencing the effects of antibody dependent enhancement (ADE).
This postulate isn’t novel as it has been found and characterized in the SARS coronavirus, SARS-CoV. Enhancement was identified by Yang et al. [6] in 2005 and was hypothesized as being the reason for such a high mortality rate in China [7].”
also from Science Direct, reposting from I dunno who posted it first:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457920300344?via%3Dihub
italy may be a function of early contamination of hospitals.
or this is actually more fatal overall than alphabets have led us to believe. Unfortunately that is entirely possible, I would think. They would say the same things publicly no matter what.
Again, could be some people with “colds” or asymptomatic not being counted.