Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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SvennoJ said:

JRPGfan said:

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.

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.

Many countries aren't properly reporting them so that column isn't much of use. Germany's been at 2 since the first time I've taken a look on that table.

Some other candidates that are very likely not reporting all serious cases: Iran, Switzerland, USA, Sweden and probably a lot more.