Coronavirus outbreak

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classic33

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Who's have thought it? Wednesday evening there were approx 1 Covid ICU patient per UK hospital...............

Manchester Evening News
"This Monday*, there were 2,881 Covid patients in hospital and 528 were in beds with ventilators (not necessarily actually hooked up to ventilators)."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/20/dont-believe-scare-stories-hospitals-running-icu-beds/

*19th October

Critical Care Units are a seperate unit and wouldn't be included in ICU figures.
 

mjr

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tom73

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Admissions now are mostly from week's a ago case numbers now point to future admissions. As long they go up admissions will follow.
Ones not on ventilators but in ICU is one to watch are they not on ventilators as they are recovering but have no stop down beds are free?
Or are they in ICU because CCU is full? It's totally pointless to talk about ICU beds it's not the sharp end and not the be all and end all of picture come winter. What ever some wish to think a bed only tells a tiny bit of story some are clearly frustrated bed mangers.
How many are currently at home with covid and being closely watched by primary care ? Simple truth is we don't know we don't collect numbers.
We may well have enough ICU beds and less may end up in one with covid. But the primary care would have broken down long before ICU if cases just keep rising as winter takes hold.
 
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mjr

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classic33

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roubaixtuesday

self serving virtue signaller
Allowed drug is Veklury.

Originally developed to treat Ebola, and what a certain Mr D. Trump was treated with.
"It is thought to prevent SARS CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) from multiplying in the body, with some patients recovering faster after using it."

Though to! They don't know in other words.

A 5x larger trial has just been published, showing no effect

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4057
 
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