re: Kaylee Hartung describes her experience with Covid-19

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Just playing devil's advocate but if a lot of people die, our economy is also fricked. Italy is fricked

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Italy's national health authority just published a study showing 99% of their deaths were patients who had other illnesses at the time.

Almost half had at least 3 prior illnesses.

Almost all of the deaths were aged 70-90.

Losing those people is sad. It is most definitely not why their economy is fricked.

Bloomberg posted that article this morning if you want to read it.

So 2% have died and 99% of those were elderly with prior illnesses.

So we have a virus that in the worst case country so far kills .02% of healthy non-elderly victims.

We would be better off absorbing the blow to the hospital system.

Bloomberg link