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Originally Posted by Vanessa

In Italy it looks like it's improving. So maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.

It's improving because Italy is now a week or more into lockdown so infection rates are reduced, which will massively take the pressure off of services.

We can't stay on lockdown forever though, so it's just about "managing" the spread so that hospitals can cope, and to give as much time as possible for discovering and developing treatments. A vaccine is at least a year away but advances in the treatment of severe cases will save lives and are already happening fairly frequently.