With quarantines, case changing and pre-emptive closing down of large gatherings we are trying to avoid what happened in China and what is now happening in Italy:
https://www.thelocal.it/20200311/hospitals-are-overwhelmed-italian-doctors-describe-the-struggle-of-fighting-the-coronavirus-outbreak?fbclid=IwAR0G78eRNjcsTbXm_8Hm32pYjxK-eskhcU-_hfs-v3Y-jsR4BHxAlfSb5xs
By the time this is over most of us will have been infected by COVID-19. Some of us will become very ill–and some of us will die (people from almost age groups, but more so among the elderly and among those with pre-existing medical problems). For those who experience severe pneumonia medical help for our breathing will be life-saving. The idea of all this pre-emptive closing of events is to “flatten the curve.” Here that is in graphic form:
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