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haxxiy said:
SvennoJ said:

We simply do not have the capacity to hospitalize that many people if the current trend continues. China had the resources to build giant field hospitals and get the best equipment to keep people alive. Some other patients did suffer though as entire wings of hospitals were reserved for covid-19 patients. Death rate will unfortunately go up once the healthcare system can't keep pace anymore.

To be fair, there are negative feedback loops at play in here, like we're seeing in Daegu and Wuhan. When we're at the point that hospitals are almost full at a given location, I doubt there'll be enough people in the streets, schools, social events etc. anymore to keep an outbreak sustainable for much longer.

If the Coronavirus goes around for longer, it could endanger many festivals and sports events.

The spring cycling races in northern Italy have all been cancelled until further notice by now, with more races risking to be cancelled, too. With the virus spreading very fast in Belgium, the spring classics may very well be at risk. And with Italy, France and Spain having growing numbers, even the 3 great Tours may be at risk later on, especially the Giro and the Tour.

Football and other sports with huge venues look like perfect breeding grounds for the virus by now, so I suspect that if the season won't get cancelled, they might be forced to play in empty stadiums if it continues to spread so fast throughout Europe.

But the biggest one who could end up cancelled (or at least delayed) due to the Coronavirus are the Olympic Games in Tokio. While the games themselves are still a ways off, the torch relay is about to start, and could be relaying some other thing to the public, too.