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Italy did everything wrong. They basically turned hospitals into covid19 infection parties.

• j-pb 7y ago
  Italys transmission rate is exactly the same exponential curve as everywhere else, chinas hospitals were overwhelmed, spanish hospitals are being overwhelmed, and its currently starting in the netherlands and germany. All year round is basically influenza infection party everywhere yet it doesn't overwhelm our medical systems.
• bsaul 7y ago
  do you have sources for that ? i'm extremely interested in understanding why italy seems to be suffering that much compared to other countries. If it's just a matter of being the first, or if it's also something specific to them.
  • jaclaz 7y ago
    As a side note - and JFYI - Italy's situation is very nuanced, as you can see on this map (divided by region): http://opendatadpc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/b0c68bce2cce478eaac82fe38d4138b1 http://opendatadpc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h... In the North (and particularly in Lombardy) the situation is dramatic, in the center and in the south it is not (yet) that bad. Basically the lock-down (started on national level on the 10 th of March) seemingly - and for the moment - managed to work to reduce the spread of the infection in other regions. The previous lock-down (limited to some cities/provinces of the north) was only a couple days before and evidently too late to be effective.