Originally Posted by
Kevin AA
If 150 million Americans are going to get infected, then what is the point of all these idiotic bans on travel and large gatherings? It's ruining economic activity.
How fast they get infected makes a big difference on the survival rate. Compare the mortality rate in Hubei (3.4%) with the rest of the world (<1%). That's not because Hubei has bad medical equipment, it's because the medical facilities were swamped. Plenty of patients that could be saved died because there weren't enough ventilators.