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I am on the east coast and all of the universities have closed -- but people are still acting strange about WFH at my product company(which has full remote devs and other employees, regular WFH days, etc).

It is disheartening to be made to feel 'tinfoil hat' for staying home. The stuff coming out of italy(https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7ex4a/coronavirus-has-no...) is very scary.

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It's better to be safe than sorry. I've cited "frequent contact with elderlies" and one of my reasons for a request to WFH (not easy as a contractor), as I don't want to increase the transmission surface area for them.

Thank you. A lot of people think there's no big deal. The major ones to suffer are the elderly, and to walk about because you're invincible doesn't mean you're doing the world a favor. You're possibly helping the spread to elderly people.

Cheers. I've been sitting on that email to my PM since the weekend, then yesterday finally I heard this on the radio which validated my feelings (listen from 26:00 onwards):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3j9

Summary: Dr. Sarah Jarvis saying don't be so gung ho about the virus, because you might be a transmitter to the more vulnerable.

Anyone know where you can find information on the demographics of those affected in Italy?

I wish more outlets were doing more to give us age data.

I saw this released earlier today: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bolletti...

Basically, of the 357 deaths in this report from Italy March 09, 0 below 40:

40-49 1

50-59 3

60-69 37

70-79 114

≥80 202

This has been updated today: https://imgur.com/a/UUWnX3p (it's in Italian, but probably it can be understood easily)

any idea on severity stats? how many people within each cohort are severe (i.e. require hospitalisation)?

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