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2% is the number of death when you have Intensive Care Unit beds to provide oxygen, fluids, anti viral drugs to serious case.

15% is the number of serious cases on average.

So once you have filled all your ICU, you cannot take any serious case anymore, so I would say the most apocalyptic case is that all hospitals are overwhelmed, and you cannot address any serious case, so 15% is still possible in the most horrific case. (But not the more likely if you quarantine everyone)

However in poor countries without any healthcare infrastructure we could have quite a number of serious case dying.




So we can stop this right now if everyone goes home and stays there




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