There are c. 100,000 general and acute beds in the English NHS. An average of 765 admissions per day over the past week or so has led to 6,400 beds with covid patients. Doubling the intake would lead… (View Post)

32% unvaccinated. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=GBR~SWE 56% fully vaxxed, 12% one-dosed, 32% unvaxxed. So 68% (concentrated in the more vulnerable) account for 8% of admission… (View Post)

Given that when you are in hospital, your freedoms are drastically curtailed (you can’t even up and leave whenever desired, or pop out for a restaurant meal, or whatever), and that when you are in ho… (View Post)

In the world the rest of us inhabit, 5000 hospitalised per million is a considerably larger number than 60-70 hospitalised per million. For clarity, the comparison looks kind of like this: And 15-20 … (View Post)

My guess is that it's already been made; it's just the announcement they're holding back on. Woolf wants Bottas to be able to be certain of a soft landing elsewhere (probably at Alfa R… (View Post)