The only hard data we have are death numbers. They're awful enough: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Other hard data takes time to collect and will only be reliable once the disaster has swept through.
Other hard data takes time to collect and will only be reliable once the disaster has swept through.
There was an article in the Spectator today where a doctor made that point: that this disease has been made a 'notifiable disease' whereas a normal flu wouldn't be, meaning each death gets tested and reported up to the government if positive, whereas for other types of coronavirus the death would just be marked as pneumonia, for example. The data isn't being treated consistently.
Additionally, a very large percentage of health care workers will catch the virus, this will further reduce the amount of capacity.
Loss of health care workers could be a long term issue as well given the CFR in a place like Italy.