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mk  ·  1466 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A fiasco in the making?

One issue I take with this article is that it doesn't address the hospital saturation issue appropriately:

    Yet if the health system does become overwhelmed, the majority of the extra deaths may not be due to coronavirus but to other common diseases and conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, trauma, bleeding, and the like that are not adequately treated.

Italy is nearing a 10% death rate atm, and as far as I know, heart attacks, strokes, and the like aren't the issue. COVID-19 seems to result in a large number of people that need intensive care for several days, and not a small number that need to be on a ventilator. Even if COVID-19 has a flu-like death rate, all signs point to it being far more infectious. Overwhelmed systems seem to result in significant numbers dying from COVID-19.

I agree that we need more data, but what is going on in Italy doesn't look anything like a flu season.