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Percentage of patients who need ventilator support is magnitudes higher than for the flu. Around the world, no country has enough ICU beds and respirators to co
by istorical 7y ago
Percentage of patients who need ventilator support is magnitudes higher than for the flu. Around the world, no country has enough ICU beds and respirators to cope with the 10-20% of infected that will need them.
Current death rate is a joke compared to what it will be once hospitals become swamped.
Social distancing measures may prevent that outcome but will devastate the economy even further.
Look behind the surface level information.
- sigstoat 7y ago> Social distancing measures may prevent that outcome but will devastate the economy even further. it would be nice if we could encourage low-consequence social distancing now, instead of being mindlessly told not to "panic". we'd have more leeway to keep running the parts of the economy that require social contact.