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ONS figures showed one in 50 people were estimated to have Covid-19 between December 27 and January 2.
The new data suggest a key reason hospitals are struggling is this lack of capacity. The NHS is meant to keep a tenth of its beds free to create flexibility to admit patients and cope with sudden surges in demand – usually seen in winter. Over the years this spare capacity has been used each winter and the NHS has been forced to treat patients in trolleys and in ambulances as ward beds have filled. This year hospitals have been significantly reconfigured to allow for social distancing and infection control. The FOI data gleaned by the Covid Data Dashboard reveals there are 10,000 fewer hosp...
© Peter Byrne/PAPA Media HOSPITALS had almost fifteen percent fewer patients this December compared with 2019A freedom of information request to NHS England revealed that on December 22, three days after Boris Johnson introduced tier four for millions, more than 13,000 fewer beds were occupied than the same date in 2019. The new data suggests a key reason hospitals are struggling is this lack of capacity. The NHS is meant to keep a tenth of its beds free to create flexibility to admit patients and cope with sudden surges in demand - usually seen in winter. Over the years this spare capacity...
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, If Israel was a rational country and Bibi a serious politician, it should end all lockdowns and all antidemocratic measures due to Covid-19 right now. Why? Firstly: The entire crisis is based on a controversial and hardly scholarly PCR test, and not on a threat to the entire society. Secondly:...
Though the cases appear to be in Oxford, the geographic location is only approximate. Places the new Covid strain has been found. Picture: COG-UK The variant has also been found in the South West, Midlands and North of England. Jeffrey Barrett, lead Covid-19 statistical geneticist at COG-UK,at a scientific breifing yesterday, warned there was a lag in the sequence data being sampled, so the most recent data was from the first week of December when England came out of the second national lockdown. The new variant led to London and parts of southern and eastern England being rushed into...