C_J Our intensive care normally has up to 19 patients on it. We were pushing 40. We were running at 200% capacity. I really cannot emphasise how hard people worked in hospitals.
It’s not just beds. It the phyios / occupational therapists / catering etc. You cannot simply set that up in the excel centre. If you want to use it for rehab, where are the stairs / OT kitchen / physio asessments going to be done.
Its easy to think of this as a respiratory disease, but people in hospital now have multi-system problems and are generally frail. This was not like polio which was much easier.
Many people had renal problems and needed temporary dialysis or needed repeated imaging (CT scans). NONE of that could be done in the excel centre. Sure, had this been a disease where you stick someone on a ventilator for 5 days and they get better pr they die, and needed little else apart from sedation, it might have worked. But that is way too simplistic.
