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For what it is worth, in the UK there were similar concerns. They set up "Nightingale Hospitals" (reference to Florence Nightingale) - basically convention cen
by mattlondon 5y ago
For what it is worth, in the UK there were similar concerns.
They set up "Nightingale Hospitals" (reference to Florence Nightingale) - basically convention centres were converted into field hospitals with ventilators. One in London had 4000 beds, and there were others elsewhere in the country. It took 9 days to build the London one (I was impressed!)
After all that, the 4000 bed one in London treated 20 patients during the first wave: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56327214 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56327214 Most are now shutdown or being used as vaccination centres from what I know.
If the UK can pull this off in 9 days, I am sure other more sophisticated countries can do the same if they need to.
- switch007 5y agoThose hospitals were a joke. Ask anybody who worked in the NHS and they would have told you no way in hell could they have found sufficient numbers of staff to actually run them. A publicity stunt. The country went crazy thinking people were dying in the street and we needed emergency hospitals/morgues
- m4rtink 5y agoWe had similar ones here in Czech Republic and it was the same - if we had to use them, there would really not be enough people to run them. :P
- PestoDiRucola 5y agoSame thing happened here in Italy especially during the first wave. They started building these temporary hospitals that hosted very few patients and some of them even finished during the end of the wave when there was no need for extra beds anymore.