Originally Posted by
dr dre
It doesn’t matter if the fatality rate is 4% or 0.5% (I suspect in reality it’s closer to the latter). Australia has 3 advantages over Italy. Time to prepare, lower median age, lower proportion of smokers. Should be better.
The peak of the epidemic will coincide with the flu season, meaning we'll get both COVID-19 and flu patients fighting for space in the ICU. We need to get everyone vaccinated for flu, especially the high-risk groups.