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Italy also has a demographic curve skewed heavily older than most other nations. Italy is the 2nd oldest country on earth after Japan.

dmix 7y ago
And 89% of Italy's fatal cases are people >70yrs old.
- dugditches 7y ago
  Because they're still treating them in some regard(before being overwhelmed). However once things get even more overwhelmed, you have bad cases become critical leading to more fatalities. The going figure seems to 20% are badly impacted, with 5% of that critical. Some of that 15% will become critical without treatment that might not be available. Thus impacting people <70.
- shadowprofile77 7y ago
  If you don't mind, Where did you find this information? I've been searching for a breakdown of all fatalities so far by age group (raw numbers, not just average percentages) and could not find it.
  - jurassic 7y ago
    It was covered in the WSJ earlier this week: https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-with-elderly-population-has-worlds-highest-death-rate-from-virus-11583785086 https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-with-elderly-population-h...
    - shadowprofile77 7y ago
      Thank you to all three of you for these.
  - NortySpock 7y ago
    https://www.flattenthecurve.com/#This_is_Not_Normal_Flu_-_Not_Even_in_the_Best_Case https://www.flattenthecurve.com/#This_is_Not_Normal_Flu_-_No... Percentage graph at the link from Chinese CDC, though Korea CDC has raw numbers it looks like. https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030 https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=00...
  - beauzero 7y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19 https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19 ...pretty well curated. Mostly scientific articles, stats, etc.
    - Nuzzerino 7y ago
      You may want to reconsider relying on /r/COVID19 as a source of information. There's been a lot of criticism on how they are applying censorship, and no transparency around it. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f2jiyz/uclo_junkie_controls_all_coronavirus_related/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f2jiyz/uclo_jun...
- marvin 7y ago
  Thus far. Most of the younger critical patients are not out of the woods yet. Also, many of those are left to die without treatment or assessment because there aren't enough ventilators for them.

dmix 7y ago

And 89% of Italy's fatal cases are people >70yrs old.

dugditches 7y ago
Because they're still treating them in some regard(before being overwhelmed). However once things get even more overwhelmed, you have bad cases become critical leading to more fatalities. The going figure seems to 20% are badly impacted, with 5% of that critical. Some of that 15% will become critical without treatment that might not be available. Thus impacting people <70.
shadowprofile77 7y ago
If you don't mind, Where did you find this information? I've been searching for a breakdown of all fatalities so far by age group (raw numbers, not just average percentages) and could not find it.
- jurassic 7y ago
  It was covered in the WSJ earlier this week: https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-with-elderly-population-has-worlds-highest-death-rate-from-virus-11583785086 https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-with-elderly-population-h...
  - shadowprofile77 7y ago
    Thank you to all three of you for these.
- NortySpock 7y ago
  https://www.flattenthecurve.com/#This_is_Not_Normal_Flu_-_Not_Even_in_the_Best_Case https://www.flattenthecurve.com/#This_is_Not_Normal_Flu_-_No... Percentage graph at the link from Chinese CDC, though Korea CDC has raw numbers it looks like. https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030 https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=00...
- beauzero 7y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19 https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19 ...pretty well curated. Mostly scientific articles, stats, etc.
  - Nuzzerino 7y ago
    You may want to reconsider relying on /r/COVID19 as a source of information. There's been a lot of criticism on how they are applying censorship, and no transparency around it. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f2jiyz/uclo_junkie_controls_all_coronavirus_related/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f2jiyz/uclo_jun...
marvin 7y ago
Thus far. Most of the younger critical patients are not out of the woods yet. Also, many of those are left to die without treatment or assessment because there aren't enough ventilators for them.