Italy: cases 41,035 (+5,322), deaths 3,405 (+427)

[denem]

China: cases 80,928, deaths 3,245.

Italy is what COVID-19 looks like when you have run out of respirators.

EDIT: Italy has 3,000 ventilators serving 60 million people.
The United States has 62,000 full-featured ventilators,
98,000 more basic ones that can be used in an emergency,
and perhaps another 20,000 held in strategic reserve.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/14/health-system-coronavirus-preparation-129066

[Baclava]

1. Trumpettes: "Its just the flu", 'Dozens Of Army Trucks Carry Corpses In Italy'

If true, this is horriflying




Dozens of military vehicles have been pictured carrying coronavirus victims across Italy – with morgues too full to hold corpses.

The trucks were pictured driving through the city of Bergamo in the country’s Lombardy region, one of the worst-hit by the virus.

Jean Pierre Ramponi, the medical director of the Chiari hospital in Brescia – also in Lombardy – said: “We prepared ourselves psychologically by seeing the images of China, but it was unthinkable to imagine such devastation.

"Now out of 450 beds, 220 are occupied by people who contracted COVID-19.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/dozens-army-trucks-carry-coronavirus-21717762

[denem]

3. It is not the morgues are too full,

the deceased are being taken to biologically secure facilities.

Look like a nightmare though

[FightingIrish]

2. Italy is us in ten days.

[LovingA2andMI]

4. If not less....

n/t

[Amishman]

7. maybe not quite that bad, the lower average age (40 vs 47) will help some I think

it is still going to be bad

[evertonfc]

5. so self isolation isn't working?

cases going up?

[jayfish]

9. Are We In The Correct Time-frame To Make That Proclamation? -NT-

[denem]

8. We can. There are manufacturers who can turn on a dime,

with enough encouragement. It takes firm Federal leadership.