Eight Nightingale hospital surge hubs were built by the Government this winter for an undisclosed amount of money that now stand empty in anticipation of a wave that never came. MailOnline has more.
This is the first look inside one of the NHS‘ new Nightingale surge hubs – which officials concede might never be used as the Omicron wave continues to recede.
The temporary site on the grounds of Royal Preston Hospital is one of eight commissioned across England last month, when the fourth wave looked as if it could threaten the health service.
It has been assembled in the car park at the city’s biggest hospital in less than four weeks and can house roughly 100 Covid patients – but it is currently empty.
Local NHS bosses have indicated that the new hub might never be used and medical unions have warned it could swallow up staff and pull resources away from other parts of the health service.
Other make-shift structures are being built in London, Leeds, Solihull, Leicester, Stevenage, Ashford and Bristol for an undisclosed amount of money.
England’s original Nightingale hospitals, built in 2020, cost a total of £500million, which included running costs, stand-by costs and decommissioning costs. But they saw only light use before being mothballed.
The new, smaller sites will remain on standby to look after Covid sufferers who are not well enough to go home but need minimal supervision during their recovery.
Kevin McGee, chief executive of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust which looks after the Royal Preston, previously said: “My hope is that we never have to use it. We’re planning for it, and that’s quite right because we need to make sure that we put the appropriate capacity in place should we need it, but I’m hopeful we can manage within our core bed base.”
However, Dr Brian McGregor, of the British Medical Association (BMA), said staffing more beds would mean “falling further behind” on routine work.
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Jumping around and hugging each other at football stadiums, pubs or in the streets for the Euros did not make a difference either.
The virus does what a virus does.
The experts do what experts do: get it wrong.
The government does what the government does: lies.
Viruses have had a billion or more years to evolve to do the right thing; ideally infect hosts with sufficient onward spread but not to be so lethal as to stop that spread. The experts have had a few decades at most.
Virus: 1, Exports 0.
And the sheep and collaborators believe and do what they are told.
Don’t forget, this virus was manipulated.
We knew they were fatally flawed from the start.
There are some, okay a lot, of people that really seem to love having power over everybody. I guess everyone’s inner authoritarian comes out in times like these.
… and don’t forget the drive for personal significance and collecting establishment gongs etc.
There is also the possibility that more unvaccinated people (like me, my wife and a good number of friends and acquaintances) have actually caught the virus, but being sensible folk, have not added to the dictatorship’s statistics, but have simply put up with a mild flu like illness, recovered and are now carrying on as normal. These so called experts are desperate to justify their positions and will make up any bullshit to do so. What they clearly fail to (still) understand is that this is not and never has been a disease worthy of such attention.
I would not be surprised if there weren’t massive underreporting of infections because there is a clear disincentive to taking a public PCR test—you might be put under house arrest. COVID-19 just went through my children’s school and many parents chose not to test their children using the drive-in centres. They used home lateral flow tests and kept the results to themselves.
I would bet that the actual number of infections would be 3-5 times higher than whats reported.
Totally agree. And remember, hundreds of thousands would get no financial support if they had to isolate. So why on earth would they report it?
They are rarely f.ing SARS ‘infections’!!!! – more a stray bit of RNA – possibly related to a summer cold.
Why did they test their children at all though? There’s no nobility in not reporting the results if you’re subjecting your children to this unpleasant and unnecessary test that they don’t need.
When you say “infections” I’m assuming you mean FALSE positive tests?
How many people had Covid 18,17,16,15,etc?
Well said! I am envious though apart from my “new found friends” at Stand in the Park all my friends and family have been jabbed unfortunately, sad but true
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With thanks to the original poster:
‘Audience: Individuals Performing COVID-19 Testing
Level: Laboratory Alert
After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only. CDC is providing this advance notice for clinical laboratories to have adequate time to select and implement one of the many FDA-authorized alternatives.
Visit the FDA website for a list of authorized COVID-19 diagnostic methods.’
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
‘Infections’ are plummeting, the government’s poll ratings are taking a long overdue damn good thrashing and now ‘Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ are binning the PCR test.
The next President of the United States will be a lockdown sceptic.
Not even three wheels left on the lockdown fanatic wagon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vLhcg_FU9g
‘CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season.’
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
Finally a testing regime that will distinguish between influenza and a common cold.
This is important:
‘Unexpectedly Higher Morbidity and Mortality of Hospitalized Elderly Patients Associated with Rhinovirus Compared with Influenza Virus Respiratory Tract Infection’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343795/
“CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season.’
Isn’t it interesting that Bill and The Slug have millions invested in a facility that designs and manufactures tests? Won’t theirs be the next shiny bauble held up for suitable fawning and worship by the “test ‘em to oblivion” brigade? Call me a sceptic, I don’t care, but “Test, Track and Trace” is a phenomenon on steroids here to stay and it’s not about checking if you have the sniffles.
Oliver Johnson : did I read ‘Professor’ or was it ‘Cupid Stunt’?
I think it must be the latter. It’s always associated with imagining ‘waves’ and ‘peaks’ everywhere, as well as an overblown sense of competence after serial failure to predict anything.
The same people who “predicted” that “restrictions will have to be reintroduced to control cases in the first week of August” have now seamlessly switched to “might be over for sommer“, IOW, they’re now “predicting” that “…. in Autumn”.
Scientists would admit their errors. But these polit-o-clowns wrongly claiming to be scientists never.
Pop Quiz! You can only pick one!
There are 4 people in a room; a rapist, a pedophile, a murderer, and one law abiding citizen below the age of 50 who has a 99.98% chance of surviving COVID-19 according to the CDC so he refuses to take an unsafe, ineffective, experimental mRNA vaccine.
Which person does the global government and corporate media want to systematically segregate with “medical apartheid passports” restricting access to commerce, travel, and employment
The rapist, pedophile, murderer, or law abiding citizen
Credit (via Telegram) @KanekoaTheGreat
the other 3 are qualified for the global gov.
Tough one, that.
NOT!!!
Copying that if you don’t mind.
Page 3 Girls were models with Silicon Tits
The Sage cabal are tits with silicon models.
I have not had the opportunity to fondle a Page 3 Girls’ tits, but I think they would be *silicone* and not sand.
I have, and you are correct.
Who cares if “cases” are rising or falling, it is a cold.
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“Then there is Professor Johnson’s inconsistency in claiming that the school holidays, which began on July 21st-23rd in England”
They began on the 16th around here.
Just cancelled my Spectator subscription. Fed up with their confused narrative. Will miss a few of the journalists, but not the editorials and the confusing narrative.
“I don’t think anyone can be certain if and when Covid might begin going up again …..”
Well, since it’s a seasonal, respiratory illness, there’s a pretty good chance that it will be in the autumn. And there’s nothing we can do about that. Another lockdown won’t “save lives” although it may briefly delay a few imminent deaths ….. at the expense of other deaths from preventable causes (strokes, cancer etc); it will also trigger even more mental health illnesses and will do further damage to the economy.
It must be so disappointing for the Lockdown Extremists that their predictions of overwhelmed hospitals if we dare remove our masks hasn’t come to pass.
Once the WHO and Governments made the decision that Sars-Cov-2 was a lethal Pandemic, the numbers became irrelevant; to them at least.
The plans to cope with such an event were made at the beginning of this century by both the U.S. and British Governments in response to the fears brought on by 9/11.
They were worried that the next terrorist attack might be biological or even that the early Mers, Sars and Avian viruses would morph into a Spanish flu type event.
Sars -Cov-2 was never a lethal Pandemic as the death rates clearly show.
Government agencies, like the builder of a sailing yacht, will always want to sail it whether there as any wind or not.
“His team predicted “an enormous final wave” in which the virus “would quickly seek out the one-in-three Britons who are still susceptible: mainly the not-yet-vaccinated””
Come on, this is fantasy island stuff, sheer nonsense! It’s making the virus out to be a sentient being, and totally disregards the immune shielding effect of herd immunity, which we know is already there because the ONS and the fact checker’s bible Wikipedia says so.
Could the fall in cases mean that people are waking up and not getting tested? My local testing centre in Cornwall is deserted.
The one in Burnley has been deserted for months, apart from about 20 staff cars, and our local one, in Rawtenstall was closed down over 4 months ago.
All these articles are irrelevant now. It’s clear that there is an agenda here and it will end in a social credit system like China. Daily Skeptic needs to recognise this threat.and stop pretending that it’s all a big mistake,or was that its purpose from the begining?