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Originally Posted by gunnner
No chance this is correct in my opinion. If people with mild symptoms are being advised to self isolate and not even get tested in lots of places, how do we know how many people are affected. Korea is the only place with intensive testing rate and the number is way way way lower and still no chance they tested anywhere close to every infected person.
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That's great, I'll absolutely take your opinion over expert interpretations of available statistics.
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Mortality goes up and down pretty directly in relation to just how prepared a nation is, and hospitalization rates also change depending on average age and health of population.
For example China has a lot of smokers, US has a lot diabetics and Italy has a lot of old people. Each population and each healthcare system have their unique features, and thus the numbers will vary for each country.
South Korea for example is a clear outlier in just how prepared they were, since their health officials had just finished a simulation of a possible corona-outbreak in December 2019, when most of the world didn't really register the whole issue. They also have 12 hospital beds per 1,000 people, combined with a population easily agreeing to self-isolate and a state of the art information gathering technique developed specifically for this purpose.