That graph is useful and a lot of people use it but it has its disdvantages. The US testing got a very late start so that graph line was bound to be weird. A lot of the US implemented the shutdown procedures earlier than Italy.
Italy's main problem is their hospitals got overrun. Remember, when your hospitals get overrun, the mortality rate goes way up, the US and any other country can fall victim to this. It is why the US governors started shutting things down. Italy issued the shutdown proclamation for Lombardi on 3/8, for comparison Michigan shut down the school systems just 5 days later. Any change in what you do has a two to three week lag time.
Italy's main problem is their hospitals got overrun. Remember, when your hospitals get overrun, the mortality rate goes way up, the US and any other country can fall victim to this. It is why the US governors started shutting things down. Italy issued the shutdown proclamation for Lombardi on 3/8, for comparison Michigan shut down the school systems just 5 days later. Any change in what you do has a two to three week lag time.
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