Death toll from virus in Italy is almost 800 deaths in one day. 19.6% increase in one day

[bronxiteforever]

RTÉ News
March 21, 2020
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has leapt by 793 to 4,825, officials have said.
The 19.6% increase is by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged a month ago.
Of those originally infected nationwide, 6,072 had fully recovered today compared to 5,129 the day before.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0321/1124574-italy-covid-19/

[Polybius]

1. Why Italy?

Why do they have so many more cases and deaths than everyone else?

[Calculating]

2. really old population in poor health

A lot of them smoked and stuff

[Sugarcoated]

4. The family in NJ that lost the mom and her two grown children

three other family members in critical condition - big Italian family. Could there be a genetic reason?

[BusyBeingBest]

9. I have begun to think that way. There has to be

a genetic-susceptibility reason why so many members of one family are wiped out.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I am wondering that too, but haven't seen anything yet why. I speculate, that perhaps...

because they are more community centered, such as coffee places, cafes, etc., all within small geographic areas, so the neighborhood all gather together to talk, chat, etc.. I did read that there is a lot of families in Italy that have multiple generations living under the same roof, perhaps this too, is a cause of the spread of CV.

In the US, we are fairly well spread out for the most part (large suburbs), and in a lot of cities such as KCMO, STLMO, etc., a lot of the older infrastructure, a lot of older homes, etc. were torn down, and spacing actually was created in a lot of these cities due to the flight to the suburbs.

So there is more spacing in these cities too. However, this probably isn't true for a lot of immigrant communities within these same cities (immigrant families still live together), so I suspect we'll see more CV cases here in these areas. My guess here.

In some larger cities, like NYC, LA, etc.,and others, where urban areas are still pretty concentrated, there have more concentrations of populations thus more outbreaks. A guess here too.

Be safe.

[obamanut2012]

10. Oldest population in the world, and many are heavy smokers

Then, Japan, and then the US.

[shanti]

3. That will be US

in a week or so.

[bronxiteforever]

7. +1 I keep waiting for the tide to turn in Italy.

It just keeps getting worse.

[Owl]

6. Who really believes all will be fine after this 15 day period that Pence talked about?

My folks do from watching Fox News.

[bronxiteforever]

8. Italy is our future.When does Italy turn the tide?