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Originally Posted by RINGLEADER
Part of it is because the rate of infection in the past week has been much higher here. The survivability or mortality of that group won’t be known until next week. The 100,000 cases we’re going to have by next weekend is going to yield deaths the week after that.
When all is said and done our rate of survivability is likely to be similar to other countries, the extent of how much the infection overwhelms resources (the key problem in Italy right now) notwithstanding.
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If we don’t overwhelm the healthcare communities like Italy, however, the mortality rate here should be lower.