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These two articles puts this 'panic' in perspective - well worth a read:
https://facts4eu.org/news/2020_mar_corona_spring
https://facts4eu.org/news/2020_mar_corona_italy
We should all be very worried. Panic no. Personally government I think are handing it well except for PPE supply shortages. Hopefully it won't be as bad as Italy. The hospital I work in have actually got good planning in place.
Agree 100% goldsmith - I would give them 9out of 10. Keep up the good work and thank you.
Thanks Kalan. No doubt it will be a terrible few months. From colleagues in Italy it's truly terrifying, 14 dead doctors, of those tested positive 8% are healthcare worker. Significant proportion of
hospitilized patients are under 50. I hope government go further with restrictions this week. Dedicated segregated areas in our A and Es and we are planning for mass admissions, mass ventilation 4 fold increase, likely to be 8 fold. Medical students will be drafted in, even vets, refresh training for me in ventilation (and my wife also a medic - different hospital). Likely no leave for half a year. Hope it's not as bad and would pray I'm proven wrong. Losing a bit money not that important, more annoyed no holiday in August most important we are healthy. All the best. cj
Very best wishes cj and the value you add to the world is far far greater than I ever will ....and I'd guess perhaps many of the rest of us here too.
The Government and NHS seem to be doing extremely well in preparation towards giving our Health Service a good chance of not getting overwhelmed by this virus, so that gives great hope to me and I hope you too.
(ps Lombardy apparently had a uniquely unfortunate combined set of circumstances, starting with the virus getting there very early in a European context and spreading widely unknowns/semi unknown for a relatively long period ahead of lockdown...with a fundamental early problem tragically being infected GP's in their communities infecting on average approx. 10 plus patients - average is generally one person infecting just over two others apparently - a time, many of them old aged, when the GP's thought they were just braving a mild flu and had important work to do. Also optimal - cold - weather conditions for the virus to thrive and family structures involving the old co habiting and or socialising closely with significant numbers of wider family/friends across multi generations including a very tactile sociable orientation in large family gatherings in confined space environments. Also there are significantly more old people in Lombardy per head of population than the UK average too ( The average age of those who have tragically lost their lives in Lombardy, while coming down day by day granted - and I do of course get it's not a virus that just kills the old - is still between 78-79 years of age) Finally, the virus perhaps/hopefully seems to have peaked there over this weekend just gone too in terms of both deaths and infection rates, and Germany hopes to confirm similar on infection rates at least in the coming days and Spain within a week.