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Originally Posted by TLO
Is it me, or does that not seem all that high?
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No, it doesn't. The numbers just seem huge because of 1) the massive population of china makes the overall numbers seem high 2) Wuhan's hospital capacity shortage:
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Healthcare system: 20% of infected people in China needed hospital treatment for weeks. China has hospital beds to treat 0.4% of the population at the same time - other developed countries have between 0.1% and 1.3% and most of these beds are already occupied with people who have other diseases. The fatality rate was 5.8% in Wuhan but 0.7% in other areas of China, which China explained with the lack of critical care beds in Wuhan.
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