Also gathering sex disaggregated data in the UK would be a good idea. The number of countries that seem to think that this data is unimportant is surprising given that it does appear to affect men and women differently.
You can diagnose a respiratory infection without having to identify the specific pathogen involved.
Could be people had died, hadn't been tested, deaths have been attributed to respiratory diseases
It isn't known at all. In fact WHO very early on went into Wuhan - and found no evidence of a large number of undetected infections. Admiittley the sample was very small.
Stand corrected
According to the people on the front line at several large hospitals the morgues and ICUs aren’t “overflowing” ( quite the opposite is true ) , in fact they are reporting that there’s no real need for the ‘Nightingale hospitals’ as things stand, as the flow of patients is not that severe at present ( which was the original primary idea of the lockdown measures) that is just about the worst bit of unjustified rubbish that’s been spouted on here so far. You have to remember that the ICU system is not a closed system, people go in, they recover ( or die ) they then come out of the unit, and that place is vacant again. It’s all about managing the flow / throughput ( or was until the handwringers managed to change the agenda).
Indeed that was how it was discovered - that Dr in China noticed a surge in otherwise healthy people dying of Pneumonia.
Really because here in the west Midlands they are predicting to be out of capacity by this weekend.
Interestingly enough the difference here early on was 57% male to 43% female. Since then it has evened out, and the position at midnight last night was a somewhat familiar figure of 52% male and 48% female.
It is then quite different from other countries, where proportions are close to 70/30
