COVID-19 & US healthcare system

[robkelk]

If we use the same learning curve we used for the "Spanish flu" (current name "H1N1 influenza"), it should only take us three years to get a handle on this.

Let's hope we've become smarter than that in the last century. Particular politicians in many countries will have to be worked around.

EDIT:
I became curious as to how good a job we're actually doing, and found some numbers at Wikipedia: 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. I copied the reported cases and fatality numbers for the G7 countries at 13:00 Eastern Time March 28, and did the basic math to determine the fatality rate by reported cases by country.

Sorted by fatalities per reported cases:

Germany: 55,570 reported cases, 420 deaths - 0.756% fatality rate
Canada: 4,326 reported cases, 55 deaths - 1.271% fatality rate
USA: 105,006 reported cases, 1,715 deaths - 1.633% fatality rate
Japan: 1,499 reported cases, 49 deaths - 3.269% fatality rate
UK: 17,089 reported cases, 1,028 deaths - 6.016% fatality rate
France: 32,964 reported cases, 1,995 deaths - 6.052% fatality rate
Italy: 86,498 reported cases, 9,134 deaths - 10.56% fatality rate

Whatever Germany is doing, we should take a serious look at doing the same thing everywhere else. They're keeping people alive.