New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan

Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by empath75 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:08PM (#22359809)

Us health care hasn’t had to deal with something like the Spanish flu since the creation of the modern health insurance system. It’ll be interesting to see how well it handles millions of people who need extremely expensive ICU care all at the same time.

I expect we’ll see one or more insurance companies collapse or need a government bail out.

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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by E14n on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:41AM (#22363963)

The information release so fare makes this look more like a bad flu with a 2.5% mortality rate, nothing like the Spanish Flu's 10%~20%. The Spanish Flu was also especially bad because it effected young adults disproportionately[1]. This caused massive problems because that was the age group of most care givers.

1. as appose to 0.1~0.2 for regular flu 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/

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