> If the healthcare system has spare capacity, which seems to be the case pretty much everywhere, This has been achieved by: 1) Reducing quality of care. For

> If the healthcare system has spare capacity, which seems to be the case pretty much everywhere, This has been achieved by: 1) Reducing quality of care. For one example, ICUs have a one to one nurse to patient ratio, but during covid-19 some ICUs dropped that to one nurse per six patients 2) Building field hospitals 3) Putting a lot of people onto palliative pathways, and not taking them into hospitals 4) Imposing lockdown Healthcare professionals would argue this isn't spare capacity, it's rationing. Now we have to look at ways to balance the harms caused by lockdown against the real risk of a second wave of covid-19 infection, and that's not easy to do.