Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
Just on a general note I'd be wary of judging the severity of Covid by deaths anyway, especially in the early stage of the outbreak.

The number of people who are not particularly old (say 40+), who don't have pre-existing medical conditions, who don't end up dead, but do have to spend two weeks hooked up to a ventilator in intensive care is very high. Much higher than flu. This kind of explains why the world has shut down and countries are building massive field hospitals as fast as they can.
I guess one way of looking at the figures is that the health interventions are keeping the death rates around the norm, so far.