‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague (2015)

Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by ken on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:01AM (#22546378)

I've not heard any health officials suggest that age is a factor in South Korea's response to the virus. They're only about 3 years younger than Italians [1] -- but have 4x as many hospital beds per capita [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_ag... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

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Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by Symmetry on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:09AM (#22546440)

It's less about the median age than the numbers in the categories at highest risk. If you compare the population pyramids of the two Italy has many more people over 65. Number of hospital beds per capita is also a big deal.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/republic-of-korea/2019/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/italy/2019/

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