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Admittedly I'm in "consider a cow to be a sphere"-territory here. For clarity's sake: I'm comparing (roughly) stats like Italy and UKs deaths/known_cases ratio
by philipswood 6y ago
Admittedly I'm in "consider a cow to be a sphere"-territory here.
For clarity's sake:
I'm comparing (roughly) stats like Italy and UKs deaths/known_cases ratios (which are closer to 10% than 1%)
and
Like a new New Zealand which is between 1% and 0.1%.
But looking quickly at the data one order of magnitude is totally justified.
"Hospitals are pretty good at surging" must break down against exponential growth at some stage. I doubt whether exponentially increasing your treatment capability would be possible in most cases.
- klmadfejno 6y agoDeaths / known case is mostly useless though, and the differences between two countries doesn't say anything about the relevance of hospital overruns because nobody has really suffered from that. Even lombardy likely didn't lose that many extra people due to hospital capacity. Age distribution and health distribution is the main driver of differences between areas.