Coronavirus: Deaths in Italy up 627 in one day

[bluewater]

Source: Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (Italy)

Rome, March 19 - Emergency Commissioner and Civil Protection Chief Angelo Borrelli said Friday that 4,032 people have died with the coronavirus in Italy, up 627 on Thursday.

It is the highest daily rise in the number of victims anywhere in the world, including China, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous high was 475, registered in Italy on Wednesday. Thursday's rise had been 427.
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Borrelli said the rise in fatalities and new cases does not mean the lockdown measures the government has imposed are not working.
"We'll never know when we've reached the peak (until after), the experts say so" Borrelli said.
"There was reasonable talk of it being next week or the week after, but it's not a scientific datum.
"The measures up to now have produced results.

"The number of people who have tested positive stems form the circulation of the virus before the lockdown and we hope the current measures and those that will be taken in future will enable us to stop the epidemic".

Read more: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/03/20/coronavirus-deaths-in-italy-up-627-in-one-day_81fd7694-fb86-43be-9770-039c63a4b9b5.html

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And closer to home, this is what New York City will be facing this coming week...

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[SunSeeker]

1. Horrific.

[HeartlandProgressive]

2. Cuomo orders all nonessential New York workers to stay home

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/new-york-workforce-stay-home/index.html

That projection must be why NY Governor Andrew Cuomo called for this action today.

[spinbaby]

3. The whole country needs to stay home

Seriously, without adequate testing, we don’t know where it is, so it’s probably spreading like wildfire in states where people are still out and about.

[jimfields33]

4. Italy has been shelter in place for two weeks already

It sure seems like it anyway. Why is this thing still spreading?

[bluewater]

5. The increase in reported infections is, hopefully, due mostly to a 2-3 week incubation period.

hopefully.

[RealityChik]

6. Got an email from our friends in Bergamo, Italy...

and they said that conditions in the Lombardi region have gotten so frightening that their family does not leave their property. They had been working hard to remodel and reopen their Airbnb inn later this spring, but those plans are now on hold indefinitely. They don't even go out to the grocery store or pharmacy for basics. Everything is now delivered. Their elderly "Grandmama" is living with them, and they would never want to bring the virus home with them on a trip for supplies. The virus is almost exclusively community driven now.

She also said that youngsters (30yrs and under) are now finally understanding that even though they personally might be virus resistant, that they can be carriers and bring the virus home to their parents and families on their clothes, their hands, their phones and other things they share. The 20-somethings who used to laugh-off the virus as overblown sensationalism are now losing parents, grandparents and other elders, so are now being shocked into getting serious about doing the right thing.

So, yeah...the disease spread in Italy may in fact slow down in the coming weeks, (as Bluewater stated above). Because kids finally "GET IT", and are complying with social distancing. They are realizing that this is not something that only happens to other people.

[Polybius]

7. Why was Italy hit so much harder than everyone else?

Is there an official explanation?

[pstokely]

9. older population?

who are smokers?

[Maxheader]

8. I think it's starting to soak in..

How much it hurt to not have the initial information on the virus,

Right when it was known by the guvrnmnt...bastards...