Italy reports 475 coronavirus deaths, the highest single-day death toll for any country since the outbreak began

Business Insider ^ | March 18 2020 | Rhea Mahbubani and Kieran Corcoran

[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.

[jerod]

China just stopped counting and testing... Problem solved.

[Mariner]

Catastrophe.
NYC next.

[StAnDeliver]

"Chances are, there are a high number asymptomatic cases. And they are infecting people they are holed up with."

I think this is right. In Italy this is exacerbated by the whole family lives together from 3 to 103.

[desertfreedom765]

They will finally realize what “bending the curve” is.

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.

[nutmeg]

There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 Chinese living in Italy.

I've read that number is closer to 400,000.

[StAnDeliver]

"Wow, I keep watching the Italian deaths for a peak and it just doesn’t happen."

You will. They have climbed the backside of the mouse.

[Osage Orange]

It’s interesting when people die!

Really?

[Reverend Wright]

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.

[StAnDeliver]

"A voluntary lockdown slows the spread. In China people were forcibly confined to their homes for months. Problem solved.

January 23 - March 14, is 52 days. So yeah, nearly two months.

[tallyhoe]

I wonder how it’s still spreading so easily despite the lockdown.

Family get together!

[palmer]

I've read that 68,000 people die from the flu in the winter months in Italy every year.

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.

[palmer]

Italy has more hospital beds per capita than the US.
Italy has 3.18 beds per 1000 people.
The US has 2.77 beds per thousand people.

That's irrelevant. ICU beds are needed and the US has 34.7 and Italy has 12.5 per 100,000 people.

[ARW]

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.

It’s easy to be charitable and magnanimous and concerned when it’s someone else’s livelihood and money.

[palmer]

Roughly 5,000 people in Italy die from the flu each year

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285 says there are about 17,000 per year based on recent estimates.

[Chickensoup]

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.

[wastoute]

There’s 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.

[DAC21]

"Roughly 5,000 people in Italy die from the flu each year. The population is about 60 million, and there are 8.15 deaths per 100,000 Italians each year (14.91 for the U.S.A.)"

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

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Too early to say lockdowns aren’t 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 don’t show effect for 7 to 14 days.

[Candor7]

I wonder how it’s 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.

[Vermont Lt]

It is very contagious. Many more times contagious than flu.