So now we’re recycling old propagana that originated on twitter? You people have lost your fricking minds.
Easily believable, especially if you’ve ever seen or been inside the Italian Health System.
The Italian System is very modern and capable, but they are not equipped to handle this level of volume and their infrastructure is being critically taxed.
Join me in buying Italian products and drinking Italian wine during this lockdown. #wineduringlockdown is trending on Twitter. Help my countrymen any way possible.
Forza Italia!
Awww c’mon, it’s just the flu... /s
Fellow Freepers, read this diagnosis the quoted doctor laments. Understand its seriousness and behave accordingly.
“diagnosis, which is always the damned same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia.”
We get it. Stay away from sneezing, coughing people with snot on their hands. The constant, unending barrage of COVID stories, encouraging panic is getting tiresome. We get it.
Gee... wonder what’s going to happen next year when the 29 million or so of us who get the typical flu freak out and head to the hospitals? Talk about overwhelmed. How many folks are showing up at a hospitals now because they just got themselves a sniffle or a cough due to seasonal allergies? How many folks are calling in sick... but really are just laying out? Everyone is in such a panic they won’t even eat lunch together where I am and there isn’t even a case of the WUFLU in the entire state!!!
Experts have warned Italy has a higher death rate than expected because its population is older than average.
The cases are more severe and require longer and more invasive treatment than the flu. The normal ICU load (probably around 90% to start) was overwhelmed the first day.
He is not talking about ICU beds. He is talking about any bed.
Not saying it’s going to happen everywhere. But it coming to a big city hospital near you soon. It is unavoidable.
But yeah, It’s the flu Bro.
Basic difference:
The flu is upper respiratory.
Wusan is lower respiratory - pneumonia-like
Italy has 60 million people, about 1/5th of our population.
We have about 200,000 people on an average year who get hospitalized with the flu, although I’ve read on some years it gets as high as 600,000. Assume at any one point, we have about 20,000 people being treated for the flu.
Italy should have been ready to handle 4,000 people with pnemonia at any one time, if they had the same level of care as we do, just to handle possible flu cases. Although we have a LOT more beds than 20,000. (I think we have 90,000 or so). If Italy is like us, then they should have 16,000 ICU beds.
Italy currently has 10,500 active cases, of which only 1028 are listed as “critical”. If you assume that half the non-critical cases are still requiring ICU, that’s about 6000 ICU beds they need, and they should have 16,000, so if they don’t have 10,000 flu cases being treated, they should have had enough space for this.
Of course, probably not in the one specific are being impacted. And I’m not sure if they are transporting cases to other hospitals. Hopefully they are setting up emergency hospitals.
Unfortunately, they are getting zero help from their EU “partners”. In our country, the states will help each other out, so long as the infection is hitting specific states, and not spread out to the entire population.
Well, when you tell your population that they’re going to die and seek medical attention then they seek medical attention, needed or not.