I listened to Lochner’s updates and I have a bunch of comments now that FR is back on line (Thank you, Jim Robinson!).
I will post them one topic at a time—there is a lot of new info to discuss today.
Italy:
The deaths normally do not tell the story (imho) but, with large numbers like Italy it shows how far testing is behind the rate of actual disease spread.
In Italy the death rate is tripling every few days while the reported case rate is doubling every few days.
That means every day testing gets further and further behind the actual infected rate.
Tests get irrelevant once the disease spreads out of control.
_That_ is why Italy is panicking and having big time area quarantines.
Still not a pandemic, though, right?
(By WHO)