obvert
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ORIGINAL: Sammy5IsAlive I think that the Bergamo numbers give a warning of how bad things can get if hospitals get overwhelmed. I think they (and Lombardy in general) are pretty much the only ones to have experienced that particular nightmare. I do also wonder if they were bringing elderly people to hospital from care homes and recording their deaths which I think most other European countries have not been doing. [Edit - alternatively many more of their elderly live in the community with their family and not in care homes] Yes. I recall seeing an article about massive deaths piling up in the streets of Ecuador a few weeks back. Didn't pay it much attention at the time, but now it makes sense. Safe to say that their system was overwhelmed and incapable of dealing with such a surge of disease and, ultimately, deaths (per the EM map). Just so other can see the regional graphs. Ecuador only lists something like 576 deaths due to Covid so far. I've been following Indonesia closely since the beginning, as they're doing almost nothing, testing very little (196 tests/million people), and just letting it ride. In the beginning, when they reported no cases, people were flying out and testing positive elsewhere. Looks like Jakarta is having a hard time, and if so I would guess the rest is or will be soon.
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