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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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