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📣 quietthrow

What happened in Italy with Covid-19?


Italy now has the highest number of Covid-19 deaths after China. This is worse than Iran. So what happened here that is so bad compared to continental Europe. Or put it another way what didn’t happen in Italy and is happening else where and hence Italy situation is so bad?

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  👤 ContigentVal Accepted Answer ✓
Italy now has the highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, if you believe that China didn't underreport deaths. They claim an impossible death rate, given that their hospitals are still accepting almost all serious patients. (This could change in a day or two.)

Their total cases numbers are probably bonkers, and have been from the very start. They were very unlucky with the early spread, with (I guess) lots of asymptomatic cases.

Other Western countries had more time to prepare, and had better knowledge about where the cases were spreading. This will change, unfortunately.


👤 MarcoSanto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

The board of medical doctors has issued a therapeutic guideline that says not to ventilate over the age of 60, or better "to allocate ICU resources and personnel based on estimates life expectancy", as is an accepted ethical behaviour in cases of insufficient resources.

People 60 and older are sedated and practically euthanised if not enough ICU beds are available.

That's why you probably see other countries (namely UK and US) react differently.

Unfortunately it's difficult to asses the validity of the statistical reporting, even assuming good faith on the side of all parties, statistics protocols are easy to overlook/get-wrong in medical emergencies.

Use translated CC to hear it from this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lnxGwptaQc We have entertainers put out PSA messages to educate the population to leave enough beds free to accept critical patients