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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by knzhou on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:47PM (#22634640)
China's case fatality rate is half Italy's -- if anything, that tells us the Italian numbers are too low.
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by michaelchisari on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:22AM (#22634857)
In China, 9% of people are 65 or older. In Italy, 22% are.

Since this is a disease with the highest mortality for the older age groups, Italy was always going to have a higher mortality rate.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by gpderetta on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:36AM (#22636258)
Apparently in Italy even flu is deadlier than the rest of Europe [1].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by orwin on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:27PM (#22639447)
northern italy is extremely humid, this is a factor for the flue too.
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