[ransomnote]

So he is saying 20% of people are severely ill. How does that not cause a healthcare collapse?
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Mildly ill - no need for doctor
moderaltely ill - maybe doctor, maybe prescription, maybe extended home stay
severely ill - likely complicating illnesses (chronic) maybe mutliple doctor visits, misery, maybe hospitaliztion or ER to rehydrate and stabilize followed by release to recover at home.
There’s a lot of room between mild and hospital stay.

[narses]

PghBaldy has spent days here spreading fear and fake news.

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Mildly ill - no need for doctor
Moderaltely ill - maybe doctor, maybe prescription, maybe extended home stay
Severely ill - likely complicating illnesses (chronic) maybe mutliple doctor visits, misery, maybe hospitaliztion or ER to rehydrate and stabilize followed by release to recover at home.
There’s a lot of room between mild and hospital stay.

No one goes to ICU? That's good, when my dad was in the ICU a nurse told me about half the typical ICU patients didn't survive. You have to be pretty sick to be in the ICU in the first place...

[norwaypinesavage]

"20% of people are severely ill. How does that not cause a healthcare collapse?"

Th fatality rate for common influenza (the "flu") in the US is around 0.2%. It kills around 26,000 people per year. The fatality rate for the coronavirus is somewhere around 1 to 3 percent in China and Italy. However, this is calculated based on those known to have it - that is, those that are "seriously ill". If the rate were to include the mild cases, those that aren't reported to a doctor, the fatality rate in China and Italy would be 80% lower. This would be virtually no different than the fatality rate for the flu. Since there has been no "healthcare collapse" in the past century from the flu, why would there be one now, for a similar disease with a similar fatality rate?