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The 0.2% fatality rate depends heavily on access to sufficient medical care. If you infect 40 million people at once, you won't have enough hospital beds and th
by Taek 7y ago
The 0.2% fatality rate depends heavily on access to sufficient medical care. If you infect 40 million people at once, you won't have enough hospital beds and the morality rate will skyrocket.
- PuffinBlue 7y agoThat's why you don't infect everyone at once and you undertake social distancing, working from home, behavioural changes like avoiding gatherings and increased hand washing etc etc. Governments have been saying for weeks that we'll need to 'flatten the peak' of the infection to keep health care needs manageable.
- baq 7y agoexactly correct and amazingly this is not what bojo says.