Posted on 03/18/2020 8:45:43 PM PDT by rintintin
Italy reported 475 deaths from the coronavirus in one day, its civil-protection agency said on Wednesday.
That's the highest death toll reported in one day by any country since the coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan, China, late last year.
Even at the height of China's outbreak, its highest single-day death toll was 150, on February 23. Iran and Spain, both struggling with large outbreaks, have not recorded more than 200 deaths in a single day.
As of Wednesday, the coronavirus had infected more than 35,700 people and killed nearly 3,000 people in Italy.
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China just stopped counting and testing... Problem solved.
Catastrophe.
NYC next.
I think this is right. In Italy this is exacerbated by the whole family lives together from 3 to 103.
The government is desperately preparing for thousands of very sick people and trying get get as many respirators and extra bed-space setup.
They will need it very shortly. Makes me sick to think about the suffering.
I've read that number is closer to 400,000.
You will. They have climbed the backside of the mouse.
Really?
It’s too bad, but it would have been politically impossible to go for mass shutdowns with 90 cases or even 900. You have to get enough on board to make it work, and the number seems to be like 9000.
It’s easy for public health advisers to give impossible advice, when they don’t have to take the blame for the downside.
I just look at the Biogen Cenference in Boston, Feb 24-27. They were told it was a risk but the “scientists” organizing and attending that conference couldn’t cope with the downside of a last minute cancellation - so they just went ahead with it and it was a major source of infection. Those guys know about exponential growth, virus transmission, infection and all the rest of it. And still they choked. They couldn’t bring themseves to pull the plug.
January 23 - March 14, is 52 days. So yeah, nearly two months.
I wonder how its still spreading so easily despite the lockdown.
Family get together!
You read wrong. It's 7,027 + 20,259 + 15,801 + 24,981 = 68,000 over four years. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285
While your point is still valid, please try to be more careful with your information sources.
That's irrelevant. ICU beds are needed and the US has 34.7 and Italy has 12.5 per 100,000 people.
Ok, are you donating your pay check to all the unemployed waiters, fast food workers, etc? Your asking everyone else to do it. Put your money where your public health concern is at.
Its easy to be charitable and magnanimous and concerned when its someone elses livelihood and money.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285 says there are about 17,000 per year based on recent estimates.
I assure you that the US hospital rooms will look like this as hospitals use basements and offices to manage patients if things get as bad here.
Theres a lag. 5 days at about minimum from exposure to ill and another 5 days or so to dead. The people who die today were exposed long before last Friday and it will take about two weeks for the efforts we are making now show up in the number of dead on Monday next.
The data is all over the map. I found websites where Italy had 27th and 32nd highest death rates per thousand out of 223 countries.
Here is one
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2066rank.html
Too early to say lockdowns arent working. The disease takes 2 to 10 days to show up and then people wait to get suck to get treatment. Probably more testing gets done which shows more cases. Lockdowns dont show effect for 7 to 14 days.
I wonder how its still spreading so easily despite the lockdown.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A-symptomatic carriers.
That’s why people should stay home and only go out for essential tasks, masked up and hygenic.
It is very contagious. Many more times contagious than flu.
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