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the problem is not with the virus effects on an individual, the problem is because it is new and we do not have decades of immunity from it. That means that if everyone gets it at the same time, our hospitals can't cope and so people who would normally survive die.

The number of deaths being reported across the globe now has little relation to the actual fatality rate of the virus, they reflect the particular country's capability to treat vast numbers of infected people at the same time. Italy and Spain's health services have been swamped, so people can't be treated and they die