Whole of Italy placed on lockdown as 97 more coronavirus patients die

The Local - Italy ^ | 9 March 2020 22:06 CET+01:00

[Zhang Fei]

Italy is home to a substantial expatriate Chinese community amounting to 1/2% of the population. It's unclear as to whether they carried the virus from their home country, but it's certainly a possibility.

[JoSixChip]

Posted for only the third time. Give it a rest.

[Veggie Todd]

Closing their borders? RACIST!!!

[TigerClaws]

Look at the curve.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Thank you.

[Paladin2]

"Italy's Serie A football league"

NO lingerie foosball?

[allendale]

Unless the race, ages and underlying medical conditions of those affected are released, the numbers alone mean little in trying to understand this pathogen. When the diagnostic kits are widely available it will be shown that the virus has infected many but relatively few are becoming seriously ill or dying. The CDC and WHO have this data but they are not releasing it. The data may be very politically incorrect and explosive.

[DannyTN]

We would have done ourselves a favor if we had treated air travel from Italy the same as from China.

[DoughtyOne]

What is going on with Italy.

It has 95.35% more fatalities than the second place nation, and 8.7358
times more deaths than the third place nation.

That third place nation, is South Korea.

At 11:13 PST Italy had declared 9,172 cases to South Korea's 7,478.

That's not enough to account for this massive fatality discrepancy.

It almost sounds as if Italy is treating this disease with something
that is costing lives.

[babble-on]

Fake news, hoax

[dfwgator]

Lot of Chinese in Italy.

[DoughtyOne]

Would be interesting to learn the racial component of those lost lives.

[Tomato lover]

Has anyone seen the ages of the victims? I am curious if the virus strikes mainly seniors.

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

Was in Italy last September, there were a lot of Chinese tourists in both Rome and Florence.

[PeteB570]

Italy has the 5th highest median age at 46.5 years (2018 estimate)

The US is 61st with a median age of 38.5 tears. (2018 estimate)

Our median age is 8 years younger than theirs.

That might impact the numbers - they are an older population.

[RBW in PA]

I picked up friend of mine last Sunday at the Airport who lives in Italy (Padua Area). She say that it is nowhere near as bad as over there as the US News is making it out to be.

I can't comment on the validly of her statement, but this is her claim.

[Zhang Fei]

[Has anyone seen the ages of the victims? I am curious if the virus strikes mainly seniors.]

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It’s as if someone armed with a long gun and scads of magazines let loose in a senior community.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

[proust]

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

If I was conspiracy-minded I would say that this virus was designed to save the social security system.

[hardspunned]

If you look at China’s data, things are improving rapidly. I haven’t heard much lately about China from media panic mongers.