That's the trouble - there's evidence the main reason that the fatality rate shot up massively in places like Lombardy and Wuhan with overwhelmed healthcare systems is because the shortage of healthcare resources meant they massively undertested mild cases compared to elsewhere. It's a statistical artifact that was presented as a real thing by the useless media. Also, people aren't getting healthcare right now because of the lockdown and the fear. All over the Western world, cancer screening and treatment is getting skipped, people with strokes and heart attacks are seeking medical care far too late, kids are missing vaccinations...
> That's the trouble - there's evidence the main reason that the fatality rate shot up massively in places like Lombardy and Wuhan with overwhelmed healthcare systems is because the shortage of healthcare resources meant they massively undertested mild cases compared to elsewhere.
No,the death rate among those requiring ICU care shot up, too; and there is no question that the reason is that the systems were so overwhelmed that things like ventilators were rationed on criteria beyond medical need, because medical need exceeded supply. (That's also why other conditions became more dangerous, because it didn't matter why you needed, e.g., a ventilator, whether Covid or not, the supply shortage meant you might not get one.)
