I agree, but what happens (like in Italy) when modern first-world hospitals are overrun and all the miracle products are no longer available for the flood of critical patients?
When the ICU beds and ventilators are all full, and there are 10 people stacked in the hall who can’t breath?
Then, it might as well be 1918. If you are dying in March of 2020, you can’t wait for a hypothetical vaccine in March of 2021.
Do you think they are just faking this in Italy, (and in Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, etc) to panic Americans and hurt Trump?
FYI, Milan is much more similar to Zurich or Vienna than to Naples. That is, it’s “first world” medicine and hospitals that have been overrun by sheer numbers.
Now they are dropping the triage age from 65 to 60.
You just run out of modern miracles when you are faced with EXPONENTIAL growth.
Italy screwed the pooch concentrating their ill in one place, which guaranteed that they would lose control of sanitation even though it’s a hospital.
Italy also does not have first world health care. They have Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, a happy brand of single payer government healthcare. They have decided to let old people die.