I bet Americans would volunteer if given the opportunity. I suspect a lot of volunteers were going stir crazy.
By the way, our experts now believe the NHS will be able to cope with the scale of the problem facing us. Just.
They were projecting 250,000 deaths. Not sure what the current figure is, but it's presumably much lower and explains the far stricter isolation policies.
"The NHS should be able to cope with the coronavirus outbreak now the country is in lockdown, according to infectious diseases expert Prof Neil Ferguson.
Keeping people inside and increasing NHS staff and beds would prevent intensive care units (ICUs) from being overwhelmed nationally, he said.
There could still be some difficulties at a local level, he told MPs.
But there was now a "reasonable degree of certainty" the government measures would put the epidemic into decline.
'Extremely stressed'
"This current strategy being adopted now - we think that in some areas of the country ICUs will get very close to capacity but it won't be breached at a national level," Prof Ferguson told the science and technology MPs' committee on Wednesday.
"There will be areas of the country which are extremely stressed, but we are reasonably confident - which is all we can be at the current time - that, at the national level, we will be in capacity," he said.
Prof Ferguson, a key government adviser on the country's response to the crisis, was responsible for the Imperial College modelling that changed the government's approach.
It found that only the most draconian social-distancing measures would be enough to prevent the health service being overwhelmed and as many as a quarter of a million people dying.
These measures are aimed at completely suppressing the spread of the virus."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52035615
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