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Originally Posted by jfman
I don’t follow your logic. How bad the second wave is depends on the effectiveness of the response by Government and compliance from public in respect of distancing etc. This is not known at this stage.
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The logic is simple. During the onset of corona virus the Government set up 5 "Nightingale" units to look after the overflow from NHS hopitals during the epidemic, there were also 2 others set up slightly later.
The only unit to be used was the London one which had 200 full time staff for an eventual 51 patients during the time it was in operation. It then like the other 6 sites were mothballed but not decommissioned just in case.
So, following logic, if the Birmingham Nightingale unit is to be brought out of mothballing and staffed then it follows that it is considered the number of cases will be larger then when the covid epidemic began.
ERGO the alleged second wave will be larger than the first.