The irish hospital system will not cope with a major outbreak. We have a limited number of ICU/HDU beds and from published literature from China around 15% of those infected are seriously ill and need intensive management including ventilatory support and or dialysis. ECMO has also been utilised for the most seriously ill and im not sure how many ECMO machines are in Ireland ?. There should be travel bans to/ from affected regions in place by now. Why are they waiting ? I see the UK public health has said this morning they may quarantine people in certain geographical areas, like what has happened in China. If you dont contain this virus then there will be much higher transmission rates. If hospitals are overwhelmed and do not have facilities for ventilation then the death rate will be higher.