[Chgogal]

Then explain why Italy has over 1,000 deaths and the US has just over 40.

[mad_as_he$$]

The best explanation I have seen is that the virus in Italy in a mutation that attacks the(apparently) high number of Asians in the region with a strong infection. Some others have said that Italian medicine is not up to the task.

ymmv

[ncalburt]

Italy has Chinese colony in the Milan garment district who all went to China for their New years and brought it back .
The Chinese other colony
had thousands of infrastructure workers there .

I wager a large portion of the early infected were Chinese.
Media hid that fact.
The reason why China donated the medical equipment .
It was for their own people .