Coronavirus: Why Dutch lockdown may be a high-risk strategy
"We can delay the spread of the virus and at the same time build up population immunity in a controlled manner," he said.The bigger the group that acquires immunity, the smaller the chance that the virus can make the leap to vulnerable older people or people with underlying health issues"We have to realise that it can take months or even longer to build up group immunity and during that time we need to shield people at greater risk as much as possible.
She stressed they were still doing all they could to slow the pace of transmission of Covid-19 to"flatten that curve".The problem is that the number of deaths in the Netherlands seems relatively high for a population of 17.2 million. There are plans to quadruple the number of tests and healthcare workers not directly involved in treating coronavirus patients will also be screened.When a million masks shipped in from China were deemed faulty, the government had to order an urgent recall.Artist Laurie Schram at Space Fantastic is running a team of volunteers sewing masks
Both countries pay more into the EU than they get out, but this"scroogy", arrogant Dutch approach was destined to backfire, says global health lecturer Remco van de Pas of Maastricht University."If the whole south collapses, the rich north ceases to exist," as Dutch National Bank ex-president Nout Wellink put it bluntly."We have a shared interest bouncing out of it in economic terms in a way that keeps the union and the euro in a strong place.
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