Reply to post: Re: They'll see the worst of it

US prez Donald Trump declares America closed to those flying in from Schengen zone over coronavirus woes

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Re: They'll see the worst of it

I keep seeing these graphs showing how if we work together (well, apart) then we can shift the peak of the outbreak and keep it under the dotted line of the capability of our health care system to cope.

Every time I can't help thinking that the dotted line of 'healthcare system capacity' is much higher than it really is in the real world, and no amount of mitigation is going to let us limbo out way underneath it.

Not that we shouldn't try of course, but the NHS runs out of capacity when there's a bad cold going about, and this is going to be worse.

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