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Megycal said :
The point is to prevent hospitals being overwhelmed by covid patients. Are they overwhelmed though?

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In Q1 2020/21, the bed occupancy rate decreased sharply to 64%, after trusts were asked to discharge all inpatients who were medically fit to leave to free up capacity during the Covid-19 pandemic.
That's around 76,000 occupied beds, out of almost 120,000 available beds.

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/hospital-bed-occupancy#background

There are roughly 20,000 covid patients occupying beds at this point. That still leaves around 25,000 empty beds. That's roughly 80% capacity, which is still 10% lower than the normal average.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/

I can't find records for anything previous to August, but it would be interesting to see how they compare.


Leaks reveal two-thirds of private hospital capacity went unused by NHS

https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/leaks-reveal-two-thirds-of-private-hospital-capacity-went-unused-by-nhs/7029000.article

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Two-thirds of the private sector capacity that was block-purchased by the NHS — costing hundreds of millions of pounds — went unused by the service over the summer, despite rocketing long waits for operations, according to internal documents leaked to HSJ.
It seems like there has been more than enough hospital beds to accommodate the influx.

It also seems like some patients were pushed out to make room for patients that never materialized:
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The data obtained by HSJ also suggested that only around a third of chemotherapy capacity was utilised, despite huge concern about delays for some cancer patients and their safety going to NHS facilities while covid is still spreading. I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great!

30-Dec-2020 12:02:31

Those numbers don't seem suspicious at all. >_> I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great!

30-Dec-2020 12:13:45

Megycal said :
... But no matter what the regulations say there are people who have no sense of social responsibility. They don't care that even if they're OK they might be an asymptomatic carrier. They don't care or even give a thought to the fact they might pass the infection on to someone who will become very ill and could die. With attitudes like theirs its an uphill struggle to bring the infection rate under control. You are flat-out saying that every individual that is not affected by covid-19 is 'an asymptomatic carrier' or 'super-spreader' making the rest of the population sick and ill.
That's quite something as you have no medical proof available nor the right research to back up your claims. The only thing is that you behave aggressive to people whom have proof themselves of not being sick, getting sick nor their environment they live in.
Or do you like to say that if someone else 15 kilometers further away is getting sick then we are the potential spreaders that made this person sick?

30-Dec-2020 12:25:42

Tuffty said :
Lockdowns do work.

The people who take no notice of them are idiots.

Right now some parts of the UK are in T4 meaning stay home and don't go anywhere. Did they listen. No they did not. 100's of cars full of people from T4 locations traveling to Wales to see the beauty spots were turned away and told to get back home by the Police. Total idiots who should be fined £10,000 each.

If people keep ignoring all the advice to stay at home we will not get rid of this bugger for years. It's these idiots who are spreading it all over the World.

Stay home and save lives including your own and your family. Selfish pratts. Should I listen to a group of people who have the power but all act like a bunch parrots and whom will claim that money makes better sense then living a healthy life?
A lot of scientists/medical scientists right now use a lot of 'backwards-engineering' to make up a story rather than actually offer proof to prove about what you say 'could' be a vaild point.

If they wanna make a valid point the police had to test them on the spot, where they broke the rules, and after a while in the future test them again to see if you claim is really a valid claim.

30-Dec-2020 12:34:07

Covid-19 or different forms of this virus are already 40-50 years on this planet which makes you wonder, do you really think that 'lockdowns' really do work?
LOL, life is what it is, life isn't affected/effected by time, life does what it does,

'it gives and when the moment is there, it takes'

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30-Dec-2020 12:40:36

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