7.4% (and growing) death rate in data from corona virus from Italy

A couple Twitter threads from doctors in Italy:

https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933818654896129

https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753...

Basically their hospital system is overloaded, and they're forced to triage patients for ventilators and ICU beds. If you're young, healthy, and lucky you might get one, but there's a good chance you'll just end up dying in the hallway.

On the coronvirus wiki article, a very helpful chart shows the fatality rate by age.

If you are under the age of 40, there is only a 0.1% chance (currently) that your case of coronavirus will be fatal.

If you are over the age of 80, it is above 12%.

Almost all of the fatalities in Italy have been from the elderly. My heart breaks for those unlucky souls.

However, statistically, most of us will catch this virus, and most of us will be fine.

Yesterday the data was 5.8%. Contrary to other countries, Italy seems more transparent on the real data of the infection.