1500 deaths in a country of 60 million...a healthcare system that is paralyzed over 17,000 cases, not all of them serious or requiring intense care.
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No the correct statistical comparison is 1500 deaths in a country that has had 17000 cases. Almost 8 percent mortality.
What are the odds that someone would get the virus using the current statics?
17,000 divided by 60 million =
What are odds of dying from Coronavirus
1,500 divided by 60 million =
Average age of deaths?
Average age of Italy?
17,000 KNOWN cases. If that many people have tested positive, there are probably 100,000 (or more) others that carry it but haven’t been tested.
That would bring the fatality rate down considerably.