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[rocketeer357]

I don't. Small sample size?

[o]

210144 (and counting) tests were performed in South Korea

[jbog]

Patients with hypertension appear to be at a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus, said a top Chinese intensive care doctor who’s been treating critically ill patients since mid-January.

While there’s been no published research yet explaining why, Chinese doctors working in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the virus first emerged, have noticed that infected patients with that underlying illness are more likely to slip into severe distress and die.

Of a group of 170 patients who died in January in Wuhan -- the first wave of casualties caused by a pathogen that’s now raced around the world -- nearly half had hypertension.

“That’s a very high ratio,” said Du Bin, director of the intensive care unit at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, in an interview with Bloomberg over the phone from Wuhan. He was among a team of top doctors sent to the devastated city two months ago to help treat patients there.

“From what I was told by other doctors and the data I can see myself, among all the underlying diseases, hypertension is a key dangerous factor,” said Du, one of the most respected critical care experts in China. “Though there is no research published on that yet, we believe hypertension could be an important factor in causing patients to deteriorate, leading to a bad prognosis.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/top-virus-doctor-says-high-blood-pressure-is-major-death-risk

[BioCocktail]

That's retorical, right?

When primarily hospitalized 'bad' cases are tested, due to lack of testing kits and probably lack of will, chance you get deaths from those cases is of course higher.

I live in Belgium: 267 confirmed cases (including 28 cases added the last 24h). No deaths.

Why not? Probably because all cases until some days ago came back from holiday (primarily skying) in Italie, as did a lot of the cases in Europe by the way. People aged 80+ don't go skying...
Since a week or so we have some local spreading without a link to Italy.

Hundreds were tested each day, now less, and when positive quarantined.
Testing occured firstly only when syptoms where quite indicative of Covid but then testing was more wide. Quarantined people are informed and followed up closely (by phone).

(Actually the biggest issue here is the lack of qualitative mond masks for medical personnel because the pharmacies were 'plundered' when the outbreak in China took such a drastic form. Chinese peoplee (and others) bought all masks to send them to relatives in China...)

When in the US you have a high death/positive case ratio I guess it could mean you are in an Iran scenario. Death to positive case ratio there was almost 10% in the early days of Corona. Negationism? Protectionism? Just a lack of testing? Healthcare system not up to par? After some weeks the Iran ratio started to stabilize: it's now 267 deaths on 7161 positives.

[bladerunner1717]

Does anyone know why South Korea has ten times the amount of confirmed cases as the United States but only twice as many deaths?

I know no one took this question seriously at the time, but a doctor gives an explanation why. This is really interesting, although the science is a bit over my head.

Bladerunner