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Re:Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will l... by sershe on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:05AM (#22776519)
Isn't that the part of Italy where hospital collapse actually happened? And in the same article they conjecture they are now at ~herd immunity. And the demographics are skewed towards the elderly so again they themselves estimated the death rate being consistent with 1%, age-adjusted. And they counted ALL the surplus dead. This is an upper bound of the absolute worst case, as far as I can tell.
Re:Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will l... by mdemare on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:06AM (#22777789)
Nobody there is going to die in April from covid?
Re:Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will l... by sershe on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:29PM (#22783022)
They are past the peak (again based on the info from the original article), so it doesn't seem likely the numbers will change a lot; not to the level of 6%/3%/other numbers being suggested in other sources.