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Re:50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic by joshuahedlund on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:09PM (#22608922)
> An anesthesiologist at a hospital in Bergamo, one of the cities with the most cases of Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, told the paper that the intensive care unit was already at capacity, and doctors were being forced to start making difficult triage decisions, admitting people who desperately need mechanical ventilation based on age, life expectancy, and other factors. Just like in wartime.

> The hospital in Bergamo was not the only hospital in the area dealing with a lack of capacity and rationing of care. The same day, I heard from a manager in the Lombardy health care system, among the most advanced and well-funded in Europe, that he saw anesthesiologists weeping in the hospital hallways because of the choices they are going to have to make.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-c...

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Re:50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic by spookthesunset on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:37PM (#22609324)
That article is five days old. Find something from today suggesting the same. And make it relevant to the entire world. Italy is not a model for how this is going down in other countries. Every region is different (and more important has different data collection methods, making it hard to compare two areas)

Again, nobody knows what the fuck is going on. Chill out, stop spreading panic and think critically about things. It’s okay to question stuff.

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Re:50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic by riffraff on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:25AM (#22614140)
I am sad to say, official sources say that the Bergamo hospital ran out of intensive care units yesterday.

This is one of the articles in Italian, there are plenty if you look for the last 24h news.

https://it.notizie.yahoo.com/coronavirus-bergamo-terapia-int...

You are right that every country and region is different, but collection methods have nothing to do with the hospitals being flooded with sick people, that would be true if there were 1 or 1 million tests being administered.

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