Posted on 03/15/2020 8:05:08 PM PDT by NRx
Britain's coronavirus crisis could last until Spring 2021 and see 7.9million people hospitalised, a secret briefing for senior NHS figures has revealed.
The document, seen by The Guardian newspaper, shows that health chiefs expect the virus to last for another 12 months, and details how it will impact key staff in the NHS, police and fire brigade.
It says: '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.'
It is understood the document was drawn up in recent days by Public Health England's preparedness and response team.
Dr Susan Hopkins, Deputy Director of PHE’s National Infection Service said: 'PHE used reasonable worse-case scenario figures, to restate the importance for people with symptoms to stay at home, including health care workers in order to reduce the spread of the virus.'
Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, and expert in epidemiology said: 'For the public to hear that it could last for 12 months, people are going to be really upset about that and pretty worried about that'
'A year is entirely plausible. But that figure isn't well appreciated or understood.'
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That frightens me. We have relatives there. One in a nursing home with advanced Parkinson’s.
What’s your take on that proposal?
AMEN brother AMEN!
The "doom and gloomers" all seem to fail to realize that ANYTHING ALIVE here has an impending END.
I keep wondering WHY we do NOT see lots of interviews with those that have recovered from the Coronavirus?
I think I already KNOW the answer to that.
It wasn’t. It was sending them back to Libyan “prisons”
Shall we shut down the entire world until January 20th 2021 then?
A lot of people will be homeless because of no job or investments or rent money by that point
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