At the very least the fatality rate for non-coronavirus emergencies goes vastly up if the beds are filled with coronavirus sufferers.

It's complicated. I vaguely recall a study that indicated that fatalities for some condition that might normally indicate surgery fell when the doctors needed were out of town for their annual conference. Don't recall the details.

And also, we should hope that proper triage will mean that the non-coronavirus emergencies that matter will indeed be allocated a bed, etc.

I have little doubt that this will be awful, but the counterfactual scenarios are difficult to evaluate.

That's true of all ICU beds. That's why some hospitals were completely converted to COVID only. The point is to separate them from regular ICU cases because COVID requires BSL3, which is significantly more work than regular patients. In China, this separation was often done well. Italian hospitals may not have had the preparation or resources to properly protect medical staff and other patients.

Italy has over larger fatality rate over identified cases then China had.

China "had" whatever comrade Xi allowed it to publish so that his "leadership" doesn't look too bad. I wouldn't put too much trust in that data.

Edit: CCP comrades downvoting this, here's how "zero new cases" is being achieved in your country: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/fosodi/covi...

There is no mention of Coronavirus in that video. Someone took a random video of a dispute in a hospital and literally pulled the title out of thin air.

That said, the no new cases sure does sound like bullshit.

> no new cases sure does sound like bullshit

As does 50-60 cases a day per 1.5 billion people when your test accuracy is pretty much a random number generator (as Spain has unfortunately found out when they received Chinese tests). I'd have a much easier time believing 5-7K new cases per day. For China that'd be the same as 1K per day for the US, which for us would be not an issue at all, if it kept steady.