Comments by "Roger Bennett" (@rogerbennett9641) on "W.H.O declares coronavirus 'pandemic' - as UK sees highest daily rise in cases" video.

Queen Cascade & Lioness Of God Apparently 80% of people suffer flu like symptoms and will be ok, of the other 20% I gather 10% may need hospital care if they catch it. Surely what should have happened is the attempted identification of the 10% and then isolate them and keep them free of infection to greatly reduce the load on the NHS.
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@ericohm9474 Admittedly there was a concern to the economic impact of global trade and travel instruction, but if reports are correct that 2 or 3% of people are at risk of needing hospitalisation surely the best cause of action would have been for the NHS to have attempted to get these people to isolate themselves where possible or provide isolation if needed to reduce the load on the NHS.
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@ericohm9474 Can't argue with you over what you've said the only question I have is how serious is the virus to what percentage of people and couldn't the people at risk of death be identified and isolated.
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@ericohm9474 I've heard a few comments from Italian medics who have mentioned a certain percentage of patients requiring I C and or ventilators, the NHS must surely have info on vunerable people and anyone over 70 should know they are at risk. Such people should have the choice of self isolation or be offered isolation by the government, we must have the ways and means. I don't know but it seems the majority of people with the virus don't need hospital care and if they restricted their movement to essential trips only and made themselves identifiable as infected in some way so people could act appropriately I think problems would be minimised. The only other big problem I can see would be managing international and inter European travel which would need to be banned from unreliable or uncooperative countries which would I imagine be few given every countries need to trade.
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