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Message: <blockquote data-quote="briggart" data-source="post: 7939533" data-attributes="member: 6805135">Living in Northern Italy, we moved our game to Skype even before the region wide lockdown was initiated. This seemed to me something that could go out of control very quickly, so I didn't want to take chances.In our group we are mostly in our 30's and 40's and in relatively good health, so we should be reasonably safe. The main concern is contributing to the spread of the virus. This virus results in a high number of serious pneumonia, requiring various levels of hospitalization, ranging from oxygen breathing to artificial ventilation in ICU.Italy has slightly more than 1 ICU every 10,000 inhabitants, slightly more than EU average. Business as usual, about 20% of these (a bit more than 1000) are available. What's happening now is that in just a few weeks we have almost completely saturated the ICUs, especially in Lombardy where the outbreak hit the hardest. New ICUs are being made available, and there are still available spots in the less affected areas, but we are now starting to have cases where there are no free ICU locally and people in no condition to be moved to another hospital are, basically, just left to die. To be clear, the ICU shortage affects everyone who needs it, regardless of whether they need it for COVID-19, a stroke, or they were in a car accident, etc.So yes, it's probably true that the majority of those that will get this will experience just a mild illness, but if it is allowed to spread it will significantly stress the healthcare system causing all sorts of rippling effects.So please do not panic, but also do not underestimate this!</blockquote>

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