“He said flu and other winter conditions usually brought in 3,000 extra people to hospitals but there were already more than 10,000 coronavirus patients in England even before winter pressures had arrived.”
Considering there are high numbers of asymptomatic (or pre-symptomatic) doesn’t that become much much harder as the virus spreads. You still need to have some semblance of control over the virus in the broader population, no?
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Sure, it’s mostly old people who die (my parents age group actually) but I’m not sure how you tackle the problem of overflowing hospitals.