Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co...
by ImprovedSilence on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:18PM
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>>From what I'm aware, if hospitals are able to handle the patients, it shouldn't be up to that level.
With an absolute best case CFR of 0.6%, that's near 2 Million dead. I struggle to think of a larger loss of life on US soil.
Assuming hospitals reach saturation fairly early, yielding a 5% CFR, and we're looking at 16.5 Million dead. That is... a lot. Like we have nothing here to compare that to. To put it into perspective, the US only lost 400 THOUSAND in WWII....
With an absolute best case CFR of 0.6%, that's near 2 Million dead. I struggle to think of a larger loss of life on US soil.
Assuming hospitals reach saturation fairly early, yielding a 5% CFR, and we're looking at 16.5 Million dead. That is... a lot. Like we have nothing here to compare that to. To put it into perspective, the US only lost 400 THOUSAND in WWII....