Posted on 03/15/2020 5:49:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Exclusive: Public Health England document seen by Guardian says four in five ‘expected’ to contract virus
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 another 12 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.
Prof Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, has previously described that figure as the worst-case scenario and suggested that the real number would turn out to be less than that. However, the briefing makes clear that four in five of the population “are expected” to contract the virus.
The document says that: “As many as 80% of the population are expected to be infected with Covid-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15% (7.9 million people) may require hospitalisation.”
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It’s not 15% that need to be hospitalized, just 15% of elderly, it’s why the death rate in Germany is 0.2% and Italy is so high (ignoring Italy’s strained medical system). Buckle up folks, between this virus and the economic damage what we’re doing right now will cause, time to tighten expenses.
Scare headline:
“UK Coronavirus Crisis ‘to Last Until Spring 2021 and Could See 7.9M Hospitalised’”
Clarifying info:
“Prof Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, has previously described that figure as the worst-case scenario and suggested that the real number would turn out to be less than that.”
Guardian cashes that clickbait check.
You mean that in Italy the elderly are a higher percentage of the population?
Right!
And anyone who doubts these experts must be a complete idiot. We must believe every expert has no agenda, no ulterior motive, pure as Grand Tetons new snow. Remember,these experts were warning us 24/7 during all Obama administration viruses.
This is a horrible virus, and extremely dangerous, but it will mutate and become less virulent. More specifically, less virulent mutants will have a selective advantage, because they don’t kill their hosts - and thus these viral strains will replicate more and persist longer). There less virulent forms will outcompete the more virulent strains, and we will concomitantly develop herd immunity. Hard to say how long this will take, but it very well could be as long as next spring.
The Guardian is a communist rag sheet that spits out left wing propaganda on a daily basis. Then they have the laughable nerve to call out others for “fake news”. They are as bad as the New York Slimes.
this is bull.
The moment I saw “The Guardian”, I did an eye roll...
And Coronavirus has only killed 6,500 people worldwide! If the the fatality rate for this is one percent, why haven’t more people died? We keep hearing: “just wait...this is going to kill millions!” Again, why aren’t more people dying of this? The number of COVID-19 deaths is NOT increasing exponentially as some like to try and tell us is happening.
Why does the Fake News ignore:
*Actual number of Coronavirus deaths
*Majority of those who’ve died have been elderly and/or had suppressed immune systems for various reasons
*Most people recover from COVID-19
Most of what the Fake News reports is conjecture.
Let’s just stretch it to 2024 and we’ll hold the election then.
This is getting almost hilarious. Everyday, they try to out-scare the scare-issue of the day before.
Google Ms. Sylvia Browne, good read. Ms. Brown, a psychic prophesied the Coronavirus in 2008 in her book. She described the virus very closely. She also said that the virus will end very abruptly when summertime temps rise to their normal levels worldwide.
Boris Johnson will end up killing more Britons through inaction than Hitler did.
The wuhan virus will end when the globalists get their people back in power in the U.S and U.K.
“Buckle up folks, between this virus and the economic damage what we’re doing right now will cause, time to tighten expenses.”
I just show my wife the article. We are discussing expenses now.
The question is how much will the economy shrink when we all start tighten down.
We will be using our camper for vacation in remote area if the virus does hang around. I have a feeling the US is holding back because Dr Fauci has hinted at it. They do not want to scare the public until it happens.
It still might not happen we might get lucky and the virus mutates into some less dangerous. I know wishful thinking.
“This is a horrible virus, and extremely dangerous”
Calm down. I’m reading daily emails from medical groups and they are predicting a 1% or less fatality rate.
I think if anything, this really highlights the failure of socialized medicine and that Orange Man knows how to handle a crisis. We are in good hands.
The statistic you cite is in the context of ~169,000 total cases. So the mortality rate of all comers is ~3.8%, as it now stands. To take this lightly is a profound mistake.
We don’t know the denominator yet!!
Could be a couple million infected and didn’t get tested. That would change the numbers big time.
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