The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalised, a secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials reveals.
The document, seen by the Guardian, is the first time health chiefs tackling the virus have admitted that they expect it to circulate for 12 more months and lead to huge extra strain on an already overstretched NHS.
It also suggests that health chiefs are braced for as many as 80% of Britons becoming infected with the coronavirus over that time.
I find this type of reporting offensive and unscientific. This is the same sort of action that causes huge numbers of people to die in a burning theater. The statistics generated thus far are not valid because the number of deaths in the USofA are clustered on ONE Nursing home in Seattle. The “death rate” cannot be calculated because there is NO Baseline of the “Non-death” numbers due to insufficient testing and unknown numbers of infected but no morbidity of significance to compare. !)Clean your hands, 2) Stay away from sick people. 3) Do not send your kids to the Grand parents for care because these are the people that seem to be at most risk. 4) Wash your hands (I know I have already said that). Remember that large crowds are found in Walmart, Target and all other grocery and dry goods stores, unless someone can explain how they are now “Sterile”! Creating “Panic” does NOT help. Comparison to the Spanish Flu during WWI is making a comparison to the “Perfect Storm”.
So the President said today that the virus will last through July or maybe August. And that is the best case as Trump prepares the country for the reality of this pandemic. Anyone who understands the molecular biology of this single stranded, positive sense RNA coronavirus would not be panicking, they would be preparing. Or rather would have already prepared. When did I understand the consequences of a new virus with no herd immunity and exponential growth? January 15th. So for those armchair quarterbacks who do not want to face reality, I have a question: does it make you feel better to attack the messenger?