Coronavirus

[Mike T]

You are limiting to UK.

There are more profound differences also abroad: Why is the disease not rampant in sub Saharan Africa, India or Pakistan?Where health services are minimal and distancing/ cleanliness almost impossible.
OH thinks it is an autoimmune response, which happen in clean western societies.
The so called cytokine storm an example.

Whilst EU features generally it is interesting to note that Germany has much lower asthma than other European countries. Not all countries are identical
Belgium which tests as many people prorata as Germany has had the worst time of all.

It is time the critics and nay sayers recognised, there is a lot medicine does not know, so all these “ government should have dones “ are 2020 hindisghtthe
The chief Swedish epidemiologist is very critical of the imperial model on which our response is based Most of these models are a guess no more.

One which interests me. 2 percent of population work in nhs. Of 20000 deaths , that is 400 expected deaths of current or ex nhs employees. To date there are only 30 current staff fatalities. Could it be that by the time people reach hospital they are no longer infectious? Contrast 15 percent of Ebola medical personnel died. It is simply not true of this. I await proof that NHS front line staff are at massive increased risk. The numbers don’t appear to say so.

Covid has barely started in Africa/India/Pakistan - the numbers will rise exponentially soon enough, unfortunately. Being clean - or not - is almost certainly irrelevant. It does not help them when it comes to TB, Malaria, HIV, pneumonia, diarrhoea ...
A lot of what the UK should have done has nothing to do with the wisdom of hindsight - other countries were showing the way, but "We" knew better.
It is my understanding that over 60 NHS and Social Care workers have died so far, hardly a trivial number, given that they are of working age with good access to health care. And this is only the beginning. Ebola, whilst much more fatal - roughly 50% - is much harder to catch. If, when caring for Ebola patients, you catch it, you made a mistake with your PPE, or were extremely unlucky. This does not apply to Covid 19 - it is much more infectious, and unlike Ebola, it is infectious before symptoms develop, and sometimes in the absence of any symptoms. So that chap who came off his motorbike and broke his leg could be carrying it, thus exposing NHS staff who are not necessarily fully PPE protected.