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by MikeAmelung 2270 days ago
By just marking them down as general pneumonia like Russia probably is doing? This shit is NOT killing people at near the rate everyone is constantly panicking about.

And if anyone was going to decide not to try to ventilate every single case, it would be China, who already released a report that in 81% of cases, they die anyway.
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standardUser 2270 days ago
Healthcare facilities have the capacity to match the normal needs of a community/region. They don't tend to have a ton of capacity beyond that. This is the entire problem with coronavirus. It is new diseases that requires significant additional healthcare resources beyond what currently exists in any healthcare system.
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ddxxdd 2270 days ago
The rate you're referring to must be (number of deaths)/(number of cases).

That rate is low, but the denominator grows at astronomical speed; evidence of the high numerator is going to show up eventually.

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