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Britain's coronavirus crisis could last until Spring 2021 with up to 8MILLION people - or 15% of the population - hospitalised, secret NHS briefing reveals - as death toll leaps 14 in a day to 35
Daily Mail ^ | 03-15-2020 | Joe Middleton

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.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: chickenlittle; covid19; hysterialvl99; oritmightendinapril; skyisfalling
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To: Travis McGee

Your propaganda is nonstop.
What are you trying to accomplish here.
Are you advocating economic collapse. If you are then this “virus” better kill tens of millions. Because the economic pain many will bear will be catastrophic. You have no care for anyone’s business or livelihood.
Take your fear elsewhere.
Life is a death sentence nobody gets our alive.


41 posted on 03/15/2020 9:07:11 PM PDT by richardthelionheart
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To: T. P. Pole

50 million aren’t dead. Even the Chinese communist party couldn’t keep that number hidden. Don’t spread rumours


42 posted on 03/15/2020 9:08:32 PM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Travis McGee
It's not going to diminish when warmer weather arrives? You're spreading panic and BS.

The average age of death in Italy is 81. That is relevant.

How much do you want to beat Corona want kill as many as the seasonal flu did this year (22,000)?

43 posted on 03/15/2020 9:08:34 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Travis McGee

Its funny your massive level of projection.

You are worse than a libtard idiot. You could work for Goebbels. You are a liar and a scammer. I never said one thing in that illustration you post as a response to me.


44 posted on 03/15/2020 9:09:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sicon
Hmmm, that didn’t work. I’ll try again:

Stunning - average age of Italians who have died from coronavirus is 81

If this one doesn’t work, I give up!

45 posted on 03/15/2020 9:09:33 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Because the death rate for young people is 20 times higher. For over 80s it is 100 times higher


46 posted on 03/15/2020 9:09:42 PM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

Driving is inherently more dangerous then this “virus”.
Why don’t you start dynamiting highways as a means to limit loss of life.


47 posted on 03/15/2020 9:09:46 PM PDT by richardthelionheart
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To: Kazan

Gateway Pundit, my “go to” for top cred info.

Coronavirus: More young patients being admitted to hospital, Italian doctor warns
Over 17,600 people are infected by Covid-19 in Europe’s worst-hit country

Italians admitted to hospital for coronavirus are getting younger, a health official has claimed.

“The type of patient is changing,” Luca Lorini, the head of anaesthesia and intensive care at a northern Italian hospital, has said.

“They are a bit younger, between 40 to 45 years old and the cases are more complicated.”

Dr Lorini, who works at a hospital in Bergamo, told radio programme RaiNews24: ”People are arriving who got ill six or seven days ago and treated themselves at home – and then their conditions became more and more critical.”

Twelve per cent of those who have been treated in intensive care are aged between 19 and 50, according to official figures released last week. Around 52 per cent are between 51 and 70 years old, with the rest all over 70.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-update-young-people-hospital-luca-lorini-bergamo-a9402531.html

Younger people with lots of social contact are more at risk of contracting the disease if they do not stick to social distancing rules

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/more-young-people-are-being-admitted-to-hospital-in-italy-with-coronavirus-as-the-outbreak-continues-2451319


48 posted on 03/15/2020 9:10:04 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Are you for the military enforcing quarantine, Travis?


49 posted on 03/15/2020 9:10:05 PM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Its funny your massive level of projection. You are worse than a libtard idiot. You could work for Goebbels. You are a liar and a scammer. I never said one thing in that illustration you post as a response to me.”

Every hour I’m called a lying anti-Trump panic and hysteria spreader for trying to warn folks what’s coming.

I compare you to an Ostrich, and you go weepy.

Grow a pair.


50 posted on 03/15/2020 9:12:00 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: richardthelionheart
>>Driving is inherently more dangerous then this “virus”. Why don’t you start dynamiting highways as a means to limit loss of life.<<

You really don't understand exponents, do you?


51 posted on 03/15/2020 9:14:03 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RedMominBlueState
I'm just an observer. The govt will do what it will do. I'm already all prepped up, myself.

But this is what China did to get CV under some kind of control.

If it took the military and police to keep this from happening (the bottom) what would YOU advise?


52 posted on 03/15/2020 9:18:08 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I called you a liar because you lied about me.

And you’re still a liar.


53 posted on 03/15/2020 9:19:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kickaha

It’s a combination of infectiousness and case fatality rate.

Covid-19: European Leaders Finally Acknowledge Scale Of Crisis
[DOUBLING EVERY 72 HOURS!!!!]
Sat, 03/14/2020
The disease is spreading fast: more than 28,000 coronavirus cases (93% of all cases) in Europe were confirmed during just the first twelve days of March. The number of new cases has been doubling, on average, every 72 hours.

“The threat is very significant... There are many epidemiologists who talk about the potential of the virus in terms of attack rates globally that could be between 50% and 70% of the global population.

“It is important to recognize that the virus is here and that it has tremendous potential to be disruptive, to cause high rates of illness and even high rates of death....

“I don’t think we are dealing with the flu here... this is a virus that is now circulating in a population that has absolutely no immunity to it.... You might have an attack rate that is three times higher than seasonal flu with a mortality rate that is ten times higher.

“The most concerning thing about this virus is the combination of infectiousness and the ability to cause severe disease or death. We have not since 1918 — since the Spanish flu — seen a virus that combined those two qualities in the same way. We have seen very lethal viruses — Ebola’s mortality rate in some cases is greater than 80% — but they don’t have the infectiousness that this virus has. They don’t have the potential to explode and spread globally....

“I think that what we are seeing is a virus that is many, many times more lethal than the flu, and a population that is completely vulnerable to it, and we are seeing its ability to explode. It has increased in some countries over the last two weeks by one thousand-fold and many countries are seeing ten-fold or one hundred-fold increases in cases. There is nothing to stop that expansion from continuing unless those societies move aggressively, engage their publics, implement multiple public health interventions, including introducing social distancing....

“We need to modify our behavior. We need to start practicing that now. We have to modify our behavior in ways that reduces the risk of transmitting the virus.... One challenge that we face is that people who are young and are generally healthy won’t perceive personal risk and they will govern their behavior based on what they perceive their personal risk to be. I think we need to start thinking in terms of the social risk. If I have a cold and I go to work and shake hands with my older colleague who has a chronic medical condition, I could be responsible for that colleague’s death. We all need to think about our responsibility to each other as we govern our behavior. We can’t view the epidemic in terms of our personal risk, we need to act collectively in a cooperative manner....

“I don’t think it’s a crazy analogy to compare this to World War 2... I think this is an appropriate analogy and the mindset that people need to get into....

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15729/coronavirus-europe-crisis


54 posted on 03/15/2020 9:21:08 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Can’t make an assessment without all the numbers but they might be triaging the younger patients to the ICU beds (better chance of survival). Rumor is that this is the practice in Italy.


55 posted on 03/15/2020 9:22:01 PM PDT by rmichaelj (Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum.)
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To: richardthelionheart

Read the entire story at the link at 54 and get back to me.

Or, bask in your invincible ignorance.


56 posted on 03/15/2020 9:22:37 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Grow a pair, “Secret Agent Man.”

MAN UP, DUDE.


57 posted on 03/15/2020 9:23:23 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

You’re a fuching liar. i don’t suffer liars.

You fuchong man up and stop being a liar.


58 posted on 03/15/2020 9:25:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NRx
When they tell people to stay indoors and post armed troops and police with orders to “enforce” the quarantine... people tend to pay attention.

And there are people on FR who are fine with this approach.

59 posted on 03/15/2020 9:26:12 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Q = Quidam = Fraud.)
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To: rmichaelj

It took nearly a century for the best minds to come to conclusions about the 1918-1929 Spanish Flu. And the numbers of deaths and the fatality rate still vary pretty widely.

About Coronavirus, we do the best with the information we can glean in real time.

Watch this.

Dr. John Campbell: Sunday 15th March, Covid-19 International aspects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMXekRVnHo


60 posted on 03/15/2020 9:26:28 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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