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Here's what I'm worried about. Italy has a population of about 60 million. We are expecting "40-70%" of people to get Coronavirus in the next 6 months or so. T
by aqme28 7y ago
Here's what I'm worried about.
Italy has a population of about 60 million. We are expecting "40-70%" of people to get Coronavirus in the next 6 months or so. The serious symptoms can last for several weeks. With approximately 15,000 confirmed cases, their hospitals are completely overrun.
How is Italy going to deal with e.g. 5-10 million concurrent cases?
Note: this applies to every country, not just Italy.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> How is Italy going to deal with e.g. 5-10 million concurrent cases? By rationing healthcare. You save who you can. And try to ease the suffering of the rest.
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- kfk 7y agoThe sad reality is that it won't, people will be left home to die. If you think about it they are already preparing for that by telling people to not go to hospitals but to call their doctors first.
- crypteasy 7y agoHopefully, Italy's lockdown is successful at slowing down the spread. Politics aside, China has shown that it can work: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/
- rambojazz 7y ago> With approximately 15,000 confirmed cases, their hospitals are completely overrun Not all hospitals across Italy are. They have not saturated all national hospitals with 15K patients. It appears to be only a few public hospitals in the Lombardy region, where all of this started.