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Message Subject Why hasn't the UK been locked down yet?
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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Look at the maths.

Say the UK population is 66,000,000

Current confirmed cases in UK today stand at 5,748

Not all these cases need treatment, most are told to self isolate and recover.

5,748 people is 0.01% of our population, if only 1% (i.e. 574 people) of that number require ICU beds and specialist care (usually for a minimum of 12 days) then that's a lot of extra ICU (remember accidents and illness is still occurring as well)

So to extrapolate, if the number of infected were to increase to say 1% of our population (at the same time, this is the important part, coping with the numbers) the figures become more than critical.

If 1% of population infected = 660,000

If only 1% of that number required critical care the beds required would be 6600

The system wouldn't cope, this is why they NEED to level the curve in the spike.

There is also a disparity in where the ICU beds are located throughout the country.
 
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