People don’t realize young and health will also die

[Firespider]

Hi, I am Chinese and have been in the UK for 10 years. I have read through lots of the threads here and been surprised that people think only old and vulnerable will die from Covid-19. Truth is 15% will need oxygen, 5% will need ventilation. Many of them are young. If no treatment is provided large part of these patient will die. That’s what happened in Wuhan and is happening in Italy. The reason we only see death of old patients I the UK now is because the average course from symptoms onsite to death is 17 days. Young patient will stick longer. Mild cases range from slightly cough to pneumonia! The word pneumonia itself is serious enough. I am very worried about the government’s action.

@Firespider so agree. It's also very worrying considering how few critical care beds we have here in the UK .

Firespiders post is important I think because it shows how dangerous boris’ “herd immunity” plus multi-month isolation of over 70s is. If 60% of the population must get it, then that leaves a lot of deaths even if the over 70s managed to isolate themselves.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2762130

This is a report on the first 72314 cases in China. Its states the rates for each age category.

The young Chinese medic who warned of and worked with those who developed Covid 19, died. He was in his 30’s, I believe.

More than half of the 50 patients in intensive care in the Netherlands are under 40, and they include a 16 year old.

www.ad.nl/binnenland/40-a-50-nederlandse-coronapatienten-op-intensive-cares-meer-dan-de-helft-is-onder-de-vijftig~a058aad2/

Sorry that should be “under 50” not 40.