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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:41PM (#22580779)
> It gets hospital-level serious for 20% of cases? I thought the lethality rate wasn’t even that high for the most at-risk demographics (something like 14%).

Well, substantially all of the cases that end up dying go to the hospital first, and many more besides that and up recovering. It shouldn't be surprising that the hospitalization rate is higher than the fatality rate.

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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by fattire on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:58PM (#22580841)
About 15-20% require hospital care of some kind. Then depending on how prepared/overrun the health care system is, 0.6-5% cases are fatal. These numbers are ballpark and the lack of data makes it hard to know with confidence. The CFR gets more severe with age and comorbidities.
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