Rumour suggests 2% of patients with the corona virus would require intensive care. The UK has around 6000 intensive care beds, of which 30% are for children. It would only require 1/2% of the population to suffer from the virus to swamp the intensive care facilities. The great flu pandemic of 1918 is thought to have infected 25% of the UK population. If not contained the implications are profound.
The critical ingrdeients for most antibiotics are now made in India and China. Most of the world's face masks are made in China and Taiwan.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-02/12/c_138777213.htm

Perhaps going forward the subject of what constitutes "strategic supplies" may need to be revisited.

As an aside:(New York Post)
"China’s only Level 4 microbiology lab that is equipped to handle deadly coronaviruses, called the National Biosafety Laboratory, is part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
"The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology recently released a new directive entitled: “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”

Does 2+2=5 in this case?
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-officials-discuss-novel-coronavirus-recently-emerged-china
A lot of jumping going on around the place. The fickle finger of fate or a helping hand?
With places like the Wuhan institute of virology, Fort Detrick and Porton Down can anyone be trusted?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-the-british-government-subjected-thousands-of-people-to-chemical-and-biologic