Hospitals likened to war zones as doctors prepare to make grim decisions

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Senior staff at a London hospital also tell the Guardian they expect beds in intensive care unit to be full by 30 March

NHS hospitals are in urgent need of ventilators and are approaching full capacity because of the Covid-19 outbreak, which will increasingly force doctors to make tough decisions about which patients to treat, the British Medical Association has warned.

 

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Well this is hardly surprising. We should all know the condition the NHS is in. Covid19 has been left to spread on its own, now the NHS needs to pick up the slack. It is shameful that the government keeps insisting staff have everything they need when we all know they don’t!

The result of 'doing nothing' for too long.

You mean scare zoned, fear zoned, no go zoned. Surely most people do not need scaremongering to to realize the risk to life scenario.

I’m wondering about the UK Worldometer figures today...it gives the impression that ALL the serious cases in hospital are just dying, and allegedly only 20 live serious cases...🤔

War zones Really that's quite a stretch if your talking about the USA. What do you hope to gain by creating this hysteria besides scaring people?

So how in the world will Samoa ever cope? WashYourHands selfisolate

Doctors and nurses around the world are the greatest fighters ever

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