re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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This is exactly the shite Dr RC was referring to in this analogy.

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Remember to keep your distance folks!

Occupancy rate is about the same. It doesn’t matter how many we have vs them if both of us hover at the same occupancy rate.

Those other patients don’t stop being sick because coronavirus exists

Excellent gif usage. 10/10

There are several factors that may make Italy more vulnerable to the disease than the US.

1)they didn’t have an Italy before them. Even if the Italian situation only makes the US slightly more proactive than it otherwise would have been thats big

2) Italy is very old. Their average is 7 years older than the US

3)Italians smoke a lot more than Americans

4)Their healthcare is awesome, but their capacity is not. Particularly in light of how universal it is. They admit a lot more people than us hospitals do

5)population density. Not admittedly this isn’t the case for all of the US but it is for a lot. Europeans live in much closer quarters than Americans do, especially in cities.

6)culture. Italians in particular are very touchy in their everyday life. Kisses on the cheek between borderline strangers is not an uncommon way of greeting. Cafe culture is ubiquitous, especially at this time of year. It’s not uncommon for Italians to spend hours just sitting outside cafes with hundreds of other Italians eating, drinking, talking.

Or it could just be they’re two weeks ahead of us and we’ll look like them come the end of March.

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BREAKING: British member of parliament Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus - The Times

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People claiming that italy will not be an outlier are saying that we just need to wait for it to blow up other places like it did there.

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That’s my point though. It has been in other major Western/rich countries for as long as it’s been in Italy and none of them have anywhere close to that level of community spread or death.

Are you saying that people believe it was someone in Italy before it was anywhere else? Because that is straight nonsense.

Common sense would dictate that the Asian nations and major Western countries would have been impacted at the exact same time period as the Italians from international travel.

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Their lack of ICU beds in the effected regions is the main culprit.

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Well I hope not because unless I’m mistaken, the US has fewer ICU beds per capita.

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....not a good thing.

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Definitely not a good thing for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and oncology clinics. These places need to be AGGRESSIVELY vetting the visitors and staff.

However, for Joe Public, the threat is not that severe. I stand by the initial prediction that this will be less deadly than H1N1 2009.

Remember median incubation period is 4-5 days. The cases in Washington have shown the virus was making the rounds there for six weeks. I don't see aisles full of dead bodies in Costco in Seattle.

What the public can do is stop acting like idiots and take precautions to protect those at high risk. As I said: nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and oncology clinics need to be AGGRESSIVELY vetting the visitors and staff.

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I can't find the fricking link, but there was a paper put out recently about the Diamond Princess passengers that mentioned OVER 35% of covid19 cases are asymptomatic and are likely to never be found.

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There would have to be a lot more than 35% to bring the numbers down to the level of the flu.

I’ve read that a lot of those patients were early on in the disease and eventually developed symptoms. You may be confusing that statistic with the ability of asymptomatic patients (before they eventually show symptoms) to infect others. That has been confirmed.