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Old 23-01-2021, 00:36   #3004
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
The claim was the flu never overwhelmed the NHS. Those links quote NHS leaders claiming the NHS was being or about to be overwhelmed by the flu.

The degree of the overwhelming or capacity of the NHS at the time of the overwhelming can be debated.

In any event the claims of the NHS being overwhelmed by the flu in those links is not a fabrication, I’m just posting the links.
As with anywhere they can reprioritise resource for a period of time. However that impacts on what we would consider 'non-critical' care.

In respect of Covid this would mean reprioritising all non-critical operations and care for months on end. The NHS doesn't have spare staff/capacity just hanging around waiting for a pandemic.

Overwhelmed is unfortunately a subjective phrase, but if we pin it down by any methodology going Covid is worse than flu, for longer than flu.
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