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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 7951494" data-attributes="member: 6688277">I'd put South Africa on that list too. We have seen a huge increase in infections in just a few days - despite early measures taken by the president we did not have the necessary testing kits. A sizeable part of our population is uneducated, has poor housing facilities and is lacking in many basic amenities due to our past.  Now couple that with ignorance and you have a recipe for disaster.We don't have nearly the financial stability that Italy or Spain have so we are bleeped.A voice note from the head of the Virology at one of the hospitals here who have been in constant communication with Italy and Switzerland said we are likely to see our peak by end April beginning May with the full force hitting up to August.She also said that once people will require ventilators (i.e. develop respertory symptoms) they wont be able to be taken off as it creates irreversible lung damage which means they cannot be taken off them - they technically need lung transplants to recover. So they will be refusing people over the age of 65 as it just won't be worth it. There's just not enough ventilators.The really ill some 15% will not be able to be catered to - which will rise the mortality rate particularly if this spreads to the entire population.Italy has had around 50 doctors die and over 6,000 medical staff infected.</blockquote>