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Outside of conspiracy theories, the only explanation I can guess about the brutal response to the virus in many countries/regions is that medical authorities are facing an unknown newcomer, not some virus they've been studying for months or years. They know the basics of how long the virus can incubate when it finds a host, and what parts of the population are the weakest to it. But what happens to it in the following weeks or months... nobody knows. It's happening nearly in real time, with China acting as the (problematic) guinea pig for developed Western countries, with only a few weeks of delay.

As far as we know... the virus has low fatality rate. Yet in Italy it has reached about 7%.

We're still far from insane virii like Ebola or smallpox that can kill a vast portion of the population while turning them into monstrosities.