Scientists announce an open letter jointly from Italy, where infection of the new coronavirus is exploding, `` If the action is early 10 days ''


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About the explosion of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), scientists belonging to an Italian university and research organization that shut down the whole country on March 9, 2020, led the report. As a member, he has filed an appeal letter calling for the government to take immediate action to aggressively stop the virus. '

Open letter to the scientific community
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E5AOOKQrFrhNtl5au1N5FCBqKmJiRtwwUjXIBT2vMSc/


Covid_19: Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community | Left
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Italy is one of the most serious countries in Europe with the expansion of COVID-19, and announced on March 15, 2020 that there were 24,747 people infected with COVID-19 and 1809 people died. did. The media reported that 42% of deaths were in their 80s and 35% were in their 70s, and that including the 60s and 90s, 94% of deaths were elderly. You.

Why the death toll rate is as high as 7.3% in Italy over 1800 deaths | NHK News
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The open letter predicts that the number of infected people will double in the next few days, with the spread of COVID-19 at its highest rate not only in Italy but also throughout Europe, saying, 'In other European countries, Countries are just a few days behind Italy, 'scientists point out.

The following two graphs both show the number of infected people in each country for every one million people, and the right graph replaces the left graph with a semilog graph .



In addition, scientists pointed out in an open letter that `` China quickly and powerfully blocked the entire Hubei Province, including Wuhan, which became the center of the outbreak, reducing the number of infected and total deaths '' `` It is difficult for nonscientists to intuitively understand from data that infectious and deceased exponentially increase and eventually become uncontrollable, '' COVID-19 said It's very difficult to figure out what tragic consequences of functionally expanding it. '

In addition, scientists said in an open letter, `` If Italy had acted hard just 10 days ago, the number of deaths and economic turmoil would have been much less than now, '' scientists said, and South Korea and China have spread the infection. Argued that it should be set as an example to stave off.


by John Pasden

Scientists say at the end of the open letter, 'The government is doing its best to act now. Time is our common enemy because the virus is very fast and deadly. Every minute is also very important in the sense of saving you. Don't waste it. Be careful. '

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