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Originally Posted by BReif61
Without context, that statistic is worthless.
I'd venture that there are that many deaths on a normal day in a country that large. 368 perfectly healthy people in their prime of their lives dropping dead would be shocking; 368 deaths of older people with pre-existing conditions that already put them close the edge is not shocking.
Context.
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Northern Italy has people piled up like cord wood outside of hospital rooms.
For 80% of folks this will be like a cold or a mild case of the flu. The other 20% (age related or pre existing condition) will end up hospitalized. A quarter of those 20% will end up in ICU. They can end up staying a month in the hospital. One gets released and 4 require admission.
It can ravage a local area and vastly overstretch the local medical care.. That is what happened in China so they built additional hospitals to handle the overflow. That is what is currently happening in northern Italy. I am sure Iran is a total cluster f.
Most of the OP's questions have been discussed ad nauseam and backed up with legitimate sources.