Itsnotmykitchen
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- Joined
- Jul 2, 2018
According to Bruce Alyward, head of the WHO mission to China that just returned, the thinking is that the HCW who caught coronavirus got from home. How they know this is unclear (to me it's just more CYA talk from China) but that's what he said.
China has a pretty modern health-care system. In fact, they have more beds per capita than the US does. Now, whether or not they have the skill level is debatable, but they are far from a third-world country in terms of their medical care.
I think we can attribute the higher death rates in Hubei to them being overwhelmed- I don't think we can attribute it to being incompetent. Which means the same high death rates can happen here.
I’m always skeptical on reported numbers, such as hospital beds per capita (Hospital beds don’t equate to much given this is a country with ghost towns that probably have ghost hospitals), from China but it does seem like Wuhan’s population density is significantly greater than any populous US city so the ability of diseases to overwhelm a metropolitan healthcare system seems far greater in China.