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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Oh yeah, one other big concern - Northern Italy is out of hospital beds after saying they would be fine a week ago. The US only has 100k ICU beds. We really need to do everything we can now to slow this thing down so the healthcare system isn't overwhelmed - which could be a huge factor in death rate in some of these places.
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It feels like we've done a pretty good job of slowing it down thus far. I don't know how comparable this is to the Swine Flu outbreak of 2009, but here were the numbers from that.
It was estimated that about 59 million Americans contracted the H1N1 virus, 265,000 were hospitalized as a result, and 12,000 died.
We're about 3 months into the outbreak, (worldwide) and we're at under 100 confirmed cases in the US. (A lot of those cases were people we brought home from hot spot areas) Will the number of cases go up? Almost certainly. But can we limit the cases to communities in which they appear?
I'm trying to be optimistic.. The alternative is too bleak.