Italy has peaked-Relax People

The rate of new infections in Italy slows for a fourth day

It certainly hasn't peaked yet in the UK or the US. It's really just getting started there.

Italian gov says they also had run out of kits to test people. Getting more Friday

One thing you have to understand about Italy is that it is basically like two separate countries.  North and south.  North is what we've been seeing.  The south looks like it might be just taking off.  The governor of Campania said that everything is on the brink of collapse and they need help.

This is from somebody that was working in the health care system in Lombardy, and he told me that not five minutes ago.  And he told me about how the bodies were being stored in the churches because the crematoriums were completely full.  And how they lost I think he said two ems drivers to it with several others out sick.  

In the next 10 days the south could explode and be just like what we saw in the north.  

I got all this straight from the source.  

Oh and to top it all off, the south's health care is far far worse than the north's.

[url]https://www.severe-weather.eu/mcd/rex-block-upper-low-flooding-south-italy-mk/[/url] This will make things worse;

A potentially dangerous setup is unfolding across the southern Mediterranean today and tonight. In response to a deepening upper low, a pronounced surface low and frontal system is spreading across southern Italy, resulting in excessive rainfall and flooding threat across Calabria and Sicily region – locally 150-200 mm seems possible until Friday, increasing dangerous flash floods and landslides!

The system is greatly visible on the satellite images, with a pronounced dry intrusion from Tunisia and Libya towards southern Italy this afternoon. Central pressure is around 995 mbar, near Malta and it continues falling.

It might peak soon in the North of Italy, but what happens if it gets going in the South of the country?   

This virus seems to like creating clusters, and not spreading evenly around the place!  The first cluster was in the north.

Over 900 deaths in Italy IN THE LAST 24 HOURS ALONE!

Source BBC.

Take care JD

Wishful thinking..... 

It's not over till 

WU says it is.......

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Not being mean, but did nobody read the post I made 2 days ago in this very thread?  

We knew it was going to start getting worse.  

DeepThinker wrote: I stand by what I said.   New cases are STILL down.   We always knew that deaths lag new infections by a couple weeks.   Yes the daily deaths are up.... these people got sick awhile ago.   I would bet money that deaths will start falling soon.    I doubt they get to 20k deaths.   Yes that sounds like a very bad number but not nearly as bad as projections just a week or two ago.  At most we are looking at an illness that is 2x or 3x as bad as flu, not 10x or 20x as bad. I would also bet that most of  the USA will peak in 2 weeks, 3 weeks tops.

There is a huge difference between Italy and the US and that is that Italy is in strict lockdown. The US isn't. It'll be interesting to see where the US is in 3 weeks time, particularly since Trump wants all Americans back to work by Easter.

KiwiMum wrote: The US isn't. It'll be interesting to see where the US is in 3 weeks time, particularly since Trump wants all Americans back to work by Easter.

I heard that although Trump hasn't retracted the "back to work by Easter", I did see he changed his messaging by saying "People before the Economy" in yesterday's news briefing.  Time will tell if that messaging gets mixed in future press briefings.