[lucb1e]

From another comment, in Italy the numbers are worse than previously reported rather than better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22476675

I did not check their source. Just saying that "we may be close to saying `false alarm`" seems almost certainly ill-informed.

[learc83]

Based on confirmed cases. There are likely far more cases that haven't been tested.

[bob33212]

How can you be "almost certain" of the future based on numbers from 1 article you didn't even read?

[lucb1e]

and based on that nobody else (like WHO, local authorities near me or my parents, or even journalists) says that.