Miscalculation at every level left U.S. unequipped to fight coronavirus

Re:Miscalculation at every level left U.S. unequipped to fig... by davidw on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:13AM (#23027357)

> Lombardy scenario does not appear to be on the table.

It already happened in New York. Maybe not quite at exactly the the same scale, but it looked like it was pretty awful just the same.

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Re:Miscalculation at every level left U.S. unequipped to fig... by jdminhbg on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:17AM (#23027382)

The scale is kind of the entire point. The logic behind Flatten The Curve is preventing excess deaths that result from a collapsed health care system. Even NY, which was literally sending covid-positive patients back into nursing homes, didn’t get there.

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Re:Miscalculation at every level left U.S. unequipped to fig... by davidw on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:22AM (#23027420)

They were doing similar kinds of triage, from what I can tell: https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/were-bringing-covid-19-patient...

NYC has had 12,774 deaths to date, out of 9 million people or so.

Lombardy has had 13,679 deaths with a total population of around 10 million.

So broadly, they're fairly similar, although Lombardy as a region is much larger than NYC.

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