Hospitals are filling up with people from many other ailments.
You think when they say hospitals are at capacity its just people with Covid?
They only have a small percentage of beds for covid patients.
When was the last time you went to a hospital?
I went everyday from December 2nd 2020 until January 8th 2021 seeing an elderly lady I had been looking after, the hospitals were empty, they closed most of the wards to segregate people who had covid.
THe NHS in the UK has never been overwhelmed, they just shut the majority of the hospital down.
THe nurses on the wards were making fucking TicTock dancing videos they had so little to do.
So does this mean in Great Britain more than the usual number of folks are becoming ill enough to need hospitalization. If that's so, something more is going on then just the COVID pandemic.
To be honest, I've never been in a hospital in England and probably won't ever be. So, you could say anything and it would be impossible for me to dispute it from the standpoint of personal experience. The last time I was in a hospital in this part of the world, I was a patient in ICU and then a private room and it was before the pandemic...so it is irrelevant.
Care to comment on this report?
https://www.bbc.com/news/55560714Omicron is less likely to cause illness serious enough to require hospitalization. So, there's a good chance the predictions of overcrowding were premature.
There is no telling what the next variant will bring. Each has had differing features. Omicron seems to be more contagious, which may end up being a good thing if it provides natural immunity, depending on how long that immunity lasts and if it makes people immune to future variants.
The point is that at this time there are many unknowns when it comes to COVID. People on both sides of the issue are jumping to conclusions and grasping at straws. Seems fairly normal to me.