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The reason the corona virus is so much worse than the flu is: if you get the flu and are old and sick, you enter the hospital and die within 1-3 days. Young people don’t die of the flu except rarely (<.1%). With the corona virus you get very sick, enter the hospital, and stay in the ICU for 2-3 weeks, on a ventilator, requiring constant attention. And after 2-3 weeks, you may still die anyway. In a hospital with 15 ICU beds, all filled with corona virus patients already there for a week, what do you do with a new young patient who needs a ventilator? Which patient do you disconnect?
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