The World Health Organization recentlydeclared COVID-19 a pandemic . The SARS - CoV-2 computer virus will go through the population and many of us will get it before a vaccine is developed . This does n’t mean that there will be X of millions stagnant . For most age groups , the virus has a abject mortality rate .
By making modest personal sacrifices , however , we can make certain the number of people succumbing to the disease is as low as possible . This includes make certain the feast is as dumb we can make it . It would be easier on our collective brain to get it over and done with , but a obtuse transmission is cardinal to not overmaster the health system of rules .
This iswhat happenedin Lombardy , the Italian region where Milan is . Despite an splendid health organisation in the region , the exponential addition in case was too much and the Italian government prefer for a total lockdown of the body politic . The goal is to “ Flatten The Curve " , a shibboleth that has become popular online , making sure the visor of the disease is within manageable bounds for the health care scheme .
So why should we exploit to flatten the curve ball ? The bender stand for the number of new case over meter . The higher the figure of cases on any given Clarence Day , the sharper the curve will seem . Not all of the Modern case will require aesculapian intervention , but if the scatter is speedy ( or the bender is astute ) , the number of case that demand hospitalization can outperform the number of uncommitted beds in medical facilities .
TheJohns Hopkins University Center for Health Securityreports there are 46,500 intensive charge building block beds available in the United States , given that the people presently in ICU can be safely relocate . There are about 160,000 ventilators available in hospitals and political science stockpiles . A moderate irruption would see 200,000 Americans need those bed at any one meter . A severe outbreak would instead see around 2.9 million citizenry needing charge .
The spread of the disease involve to be as gradual as potential to save the greatest number of lives . The current advice is to take hygiene in earnest ( wash your hands ) , to forfend unnecessary trips and large gather , work from home , ego - quarantine of mad , avoiding crowds , etc . Not everyone will be capable to do all of these measures , peculiarly those who ca n’t work remotely or do n’t have access code to sick pay , so the current advice is to do as much as you could on a personal level to mitigate the spread of the computer virus .
