JRPGfan said:
SvennoJ said:
Deaths / Total detected cases varies wildly per country
Italy 7.7%
Iran 5.7%
China 4.0%
UK 3.6%
Spain 3.4%
France 2.2%
USA 2.0%
Netherlands 1.7%
South Korea 1.0%
Switzerland 0.8%
Denmark 0.4%
Germany 0.2%
Germany seems best at detecting cases and/or keeping people alive so far. The timing is also different of course. China is hardly detecting new cases anymore but still has 3200 serious/critical cases marker. Italy is still climbing fast with now 3 times the active cases as are left in China. You would think Germany and the UK are not far different in timing yet a totally different ratio.
Very hard to say anything about how many cases there really are.
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Guess part of it, is how well your healthcare system works?
I heard a explaination for italy high number is:
1) they are currently overwhelmed.... too many sick people. Without enough supplies/beds/doc+nurses things go bad.
2) higher % of older people (one of the highest in the world)
3) its common for 2-3 generations of a family to live in the same house. So the young get it, and infect the elderly to a higher degree.
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Yeah it could be partly a cultural thing with the elderly living in nursing homes or on their own in Germany. Germany is also reporting very few (2) serious cases, maybe it's only/mainly spreading among the young in Germany? Or the classification is screwed up as 3 more died today without ever being listed as serious.
No wonder maximum efforts are currently in force to socially distance people. There's simply no knowing how widespread it already is with all this conflicting data and limited actual testing.
