[cjbprime]

Note that, even if true, this doesn't mean it can't destroy a country's healthcare system. At least 10% of cases appear to require hospitalization for pneumonia. No country has enough hospital beds for 10% of its population. Once you're out of beds, many people who need critical care start dying instead.

[rogerkirkness]

To be entirely fair to the statistics presented here, it is suggesting that only 4% of people require hospitalization assuming 60% are in fact asymptomatic but positive tests.

[cjbprime]

True enough! The 4% would still overwhelm any country's health system. E.g. US has around 300,000 available hospital beds, and 4% of population is 13M, 43x higher.

[robocat]

> At least 10% of cases

That is likely 10% of people showing symptoms.

The study says 50% of people are asymptomatic (mostly 60+ years old from that data) then the total number of people in population needing a bed halves to 5%.

However I found it unclear from paper whether 50% are not showing symptoms because they only just got infected (i.e. would show symptoms 5 days later on average).