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Introduction – Jan 19, 2021

Waiting for patients. One of the Florence Nightingale hospitals that were set up in Britain to deal with an expected throng of coronavirus patients but which have remained almost empty. Click to enlarge

If you were to believe the mainstream media you would think that Britain faced a health crisis of unprecedented proportions.

A few recent headlines illustrate this:

Covid-19 patients admitted to hospitals in England ‘every 30 seconds’

The UK now has the highest Covid death rate in the world

COVID-19: UK records 1,610 more coronavirus deaths – highest on single day since outbreak began

These grim headlines follow warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson that tougher measures may be required to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Boris Johnson warns tougher lockdown measures may be needed ‘if rules are not properly observed

At first glance the situation looks dire and you would think that any measures to contain the “pandemic” would be justified. But things may not be as grim as the politicians and their media quislings would have us believe. For amid all the doom and gloom it transpires London’s Nightingale Hospital, which was established specifically to deal with Covid-19, has seen hardly any patients.

The hospital originally opened its doors in April last year with 500 beds and a capacity for 4,000. However, because there was so little demand it began to wind down last month.

Then with the emergence of a new strain of Covid-19 the hospital did a turn around and re-opened its doors. Nonetheless, in the past few weeks the hospital has still seen only a handful of patients. Indeed, so few patients have been admitted that the hospital is now ready to admit patients from an area outside of Greater London.

Nor is London’s Nightingale Hospital alone in tending to so few patients. More than a dozen such facilities were set up throughout Britain at the start of the pandemic and none has been overwhelmed with patients. In fact the reverse has been true:

Britain’s deserted Nightingale hospitals

 

NEC’s giant Nightingale hospital ‘scaled down’ after never being used

 

Why do so many NHS Nightingale hospitals remain empty?

So why are these hospital having problems filling their beds if the UK is in the grip of a Covid-19 “pandemic”?

Could it be that the “Covid-19 crisis” is not nearly as dire as the media and the government would have us believe? Are the politicians and their lackey’s in the media trying to foment fear and panic so that we all rush off for Covid-19 vaccinations?

Something isn’t right here and as with 9/11, governments the world over and the corporate media are working in tandem to sell us a suspect story.

London’s Nightingale hospital relaxes admission rules as it treats just 12 patients

Shaun Lintern – The Independent Jan 19, 2021

London’s Nightingale hospital has been forced to relax its rules for admitting patients after NHS trusts sent only a handful of patients there.

The field hospital, at the ExCel centre, reopened its doors on Monday last week, with 64 beds ready for patients.

But it faced a backlash from hospitals, with many sources warning the criteria to discharge a patient to the site were so restrictive it would not help NHS trusts to free up beds.

By Friday, the lack of patients at the Nightingale, which was rebuilt at a cost of millions after being dismantled following the summer, led the North East London Foundation Trust and NHS England to agree changes to the admissions criteria to allow it to take on more complex patients

Despite the changes, the hospital still had only 12 patients as of Monday, up from eight at the weekend. Some NHS hospital insiders told The Independent the new criteria still did not go far enough.

The Nightingale hospital has now agreed to take patients whose conditions are more complex than previously and who may need a care home bed.

It has also told hospitals that patients no longer need to have an identified discharge plan in place, and it will take patients who may stay up to 14 days.

Other changes including accepting patients who only have 14 days’ worth of medication as opposed to 28 days, as well as people considered obese or severely overweight.

Hospital bosses have also said they are prepared to take in homeless patients and those from outside London.

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