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The scale is kind of the entire point. The logic behind Flatten The Curve is preventing excess deaths that result from a collapsed health care system. Even NY,
by jdminhbg 7y ago
The scale is kind of the entire point. The logic behind Flatten The Curve is preventing excess deaths that result from a collapsed health care system. Even NY, which was literally sending covid-positive patients back into nursing homes, didn’t get there.
- davidw 7y agoThey were doing similar kinds of triage, from what I can tell: https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/were-bringing-covid-19-patients-to-hospitals-to-die-nyc-paramedic/ https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/were-bringing-covid-19-patient... NYC has had 12,774 deaths to date, out of 9 million people or so. Lombardy has had 13,679 deaths with a total population of around 10 million. So broadly, they're fairly similar, although Lombardy as a region is much larger than NYC.