Johns Hopkins Medical Centre - World Coronavirus infection Map by Country.

[Tim]

Probably the only place in the world capable of doing this.

[Gazjam]

Had pleurisy as well. Bloody painful it was..
Also had a pandemic too in swine flu, which nearly killed me.. But not quite

He takes a lickin’...but keeps on tickin’.

[Gazjam]

Probably the only place in the world capable of doing this.

Tim,
that’s extremely impressive.

Sadly..I don’t think our Govm’t is capable of even 10% of that in a crisis.
Could always host a Cobra meeting, sounds good and it’s good for PR.

we’re in a similar situation as the US, the fish rots from the head and, well..Boris Johnston mumbling out of breath at the Podium, doesn't inspire much confidence.

[mikeyb]

Govt announcement later today regarding movement, schools, working from home etc

[Macca]

The NHS and Government are now saying there is the potential for 80% of the UK to become infected, now with a flu fatality rate of 0.1 to 0.5% that maybe doesn't sound too scary, but do the maths on a fatality rate of 3%.

80% of 64 million = 51.2 million
3% of 51.2 million = 1.5 million

That would completely overwhelm pretty much every public service we have, let alone the financial cost and I dread to think what panic it might cause..

1.5 million over what period of time though and how many of those people would die anyway over that period of time even without this virus? 56706 people died in the UK in January 2020, that's before CV got here. So approx 600,000 die annually anyway and that does not overwhelm anything. It's serious, yes, but no point in losing perspective.

[walpurgis]

Funny how figures change . I'm sure I recall the the UK population quoted as 78 million a few years back.

[struth]

67 mil i think.. too high really but not silly high. might be higher with the illegals tho

[struth]

3 nurses at my local hospital have been isolated while they are tested after a patient coughed on them after waking from an op....

[walpurgis]

There were about fifteen diagnosed cases within a five mile radius here last night according to the ITV News interactive map. No doubt as yet undiagnosed cases will be many times that.

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-11/...teractive-map/

I have three hospital appointments in the next month. A hospital is the last place I want to visit at the moment!

[struth]

big popu;ation in a relatively small area london, so no doubt will have the highest amount of cases. my region which is not the biggest has most cases tho up here...typical... expecting a big increase today