Verity Bowman – The Daily Telegraph.co.uk April 29, 2020
Looking like a scene from a dystopian science fiction movie – complete with “safe spacing” and wall mounted video – staff listen to an address at the opening of the NHS Nightingale in Birmingham. Click to enlarge
Nightingale hospitals are opening across the UK, but as reports emerge of thousands of empty beds questions are being raised about the facilities.
When the Government ordered the construction of the hospitals on March 13, it seemed highly likely that the UK could be overwhelmed by the coronavirus crisis.
Scenes from northern Italy caused officials to worry the NHS would run out of intensive care beds and ventilators, or even that doctors could be forced to leave some patients to die.
Now some officials believe their Nightingale hospital may never have to treat a Covid-19 patient – but where are these facilities? And why is the number of patients they are treating so low?
Where are the hospitals located?
The NHS Nightingale Hospital based at the ExCeL conference centre, in east London, is now open, having been built in nine days.
Eight other NHS Nightingale Hospitals have been announced so far – in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Harrogate, Cardiff, Glasgow, Belfast and Bristol.
The new facility at Manchester Conference Centre is expected to run on a significantly different model to that in London, comprising mainly “step-down” beds for Covid-19 patients on their way to being discharged from hospital.
The Telegraph now understands that the military has drawn up plans to build 17 new coronavirus field hospitals.
How many patients can they treat?
The NHS Nightingale hospital in east London has 4,000 beds, and it is understood that around 60 are currently being used. Last week, it was revealed that only 19 patients were admitted over the Easter weekend.
Initially the facilities in Birmingham and Manchester will each have 500 beds, but the Manchester site will eventually have potential for 1,000 beds, with Birmingham housing twice that number.
The Bristol facility will be furnished with 300 beds at first, but could grow to 850 if required. The Harrogate hospital will have 500 beds in total.
Why are so many reportedly empty?
The West Midlands’ Nightingale Hospital has yet to admit any patients more than a fortnight after becoming operational – with the region’s mayor saying: “I hope it stays that way.”
This sentiment has been echoed across the board, with the boss of NHS Nightingale in the North East saying the facility will not be needed if people maintain social distancing rules. The 460-bed facility in Washington, Tyne and Wear, will only open to patients if hospitals in the North East are unable to cope with the influx of coronavirus patients.
Meanwhile, the NHS has also roughly doubled its ICU capacity on its pre-existing locations to 1,555 beds. This increased capacity means many hospitals have not had to send their patients to a Nightingale facility.
The low numbers of admissions to Nightingales could also be related to a strict entry criteria, which excludes the most frail patients. The hospitals usually cater towards younger and fitter patients suffering from the coronavirus, rather than those with severe cases.
I realise the Editor has an affinity (maybe contacts) with the Telegraph, but why is this article worthy?
@Carl Jones
Pointing out the empty hospitals highlights the plague of BS we are all suffering from.
That’s newsworthy when it comes from any mainstream source… it opens a crack for truth to seep through.
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The guy the right looks like Prince Henry.
@Carl Jones
It can be useful to know how the narrtive is being shaped in the general public. I think that might be the reason.
The military has done well to build the hospitals. The problem is staffing these facilities. They unfortunately don’t grow on trees.
We were unprepared, even after being warned last year and ignoring the findings of Exercise Cygnus of 2016.
Carl Jones April 30, 2020 at 7:42 am:
“I realise the Editor has an affinity (maybe contacts) with the Telegraph, but why is this article worthy?”
Why indeed?!
Because it completely contradicts the editor’s assertion that “To be sure Covid-19 is real enough, and deadly enough too…”
How can this editor be so informed and so uninformed at the same time?
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I suspect the “empty hospital beds” and “empty extra facilities” are for ROUND 2, the predictively programmed (already) SECOND WAVE, coming to uppity countries and uppity jurisdictions when needed — should any substantial pushback from the oppressed begin to evolve, threatening to emerge and upset the apple carts of the NWO. A little dab’ll do you in, matey! The next time the lethality of the bioweaponry will be — intentionally — much greater, to my thinking.
In the meantime, such conditions serve the immediate purpose of creating a powerfully confusing dialectic or three: virus real or not; virus actually dangerous to one’s life or not; precautions OK because NEXT TIME……Sort of like prepping, isn’t it? I didn’t eat all my Spam this time, still have some for NEXT TIME.
My 2 cents’ worth.
The reason these places are empty is because the whole thing is a scam to gain MORE control!! It is nothing more than the FLU. In the past people with a heavy cold ‘claim’ they they the flu when they don’t the ‘REAL’ FLU knocks you off you feet and this is what the Zionists are using IGNORANCE from the SHEEPLE to control them. As for Me? I HAVE had the REAL flu and survived decades ago before the Snowflake lobotomized at birth and indoctrinated from birth with an iphone surgically sewn into their hands. THEY will not survive this scam I along with a lot of others from OUR generation WILL!”!
I don’t see much hospital equipment, just a warehouse full of empty beds.
Perhaps it isn’t all for show though. People have reported seeing 5G being installed in schools while most people, and especially kids, are locked in their homes.
The (illegitimate) occupation government says two things. One, it says there’ll be a “second wave” of the kung flu. Two, it says the first people allowed out with be the schoolkids.
The devil’s vermin ALWAYS attack the young because they represent the weak link in the reproductive chain. Kill, sterilise or otherwise incapacitate the kids and there won’t be any more births. That’s why they’ve been trying to destroy people’s lives with all the queer and “tranny” propaganda in schools and elsewhere. If the young don’t grow up healthy and normal and have children of their own, that’s the end. The jews will have won.
Once the kids go back to school and the 5G murder weapon is switched on, those warehouses full of beds will very quickly fill up with dead and dying children. No need for “hospital” facilities. The kids will die and nobody will be allowed to visit because this will be the government’s “second wave” of the imaginary killer plague.
No more freedom for anyone after that, unless WE decide to DO something we should have done long ago.
To all the above, we’ve known the NHs have been empty for weeks. Just because some muppet at the Telegraph has been given instructions…