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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsItalys deaths 463. The country has 9,172 cases so far.Can you even imagine what the numbers are here
This country would be at least that bad, IF WE HAD THE FUCKING TESTS!!!! The only reason other countries are high in cases, their leader isn't impeding the testing process, imo
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Italys deaths 463. The country has 9,172 cases so far.Can you even imagine what the numbers are here (Original Post)
Iwasthere
Mar 2020
OP
So that sounds around the death rate reported 2 weeks ago. What is the infection rate? tia
uponit7771
Mar 2020
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doc03
(35,300 posts)1. Wow that's 5% fatality rate, bad. nt
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)4. that's the reality vs underreported deaths from China
and equally frightening is critical care cases - 19% of all cases. SF is setting up tents outside hospital for respiratory cases. I think high density cities like SF and NYC with well used public transit can be especially hit hard.
matt819
(10,749 posts)2. The thing is
If we had tests and detected more cases, wed have a better picture of the mortality rate. And of so much more, of course. If we were not a rogue state.
2naSalit
(86,345 posts)3. I'm just assuming it's everywhere by now.
I bought an extra 8 pack of TP today, just because.
doc03
(35,300 posts)5. Imagine what this could do in a place like the Villages in Florida
where you have 100,000 elderly people in one community.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)6. And most are republicans who will claim it is a hoax.
It will make the STD epidemic in the villages pale.
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)7. So that sounds around the death rate reported 2 weeks ago. What is the infection rate? tia