Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

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I'm not talking about that though, I'm talking about this bit:



I'm just fascinated to know what xsnaggle off the football messageboard is basing his confident assertion on that a week from being overrun is not ever really too close for an ICU unit, when a critical care consultant finds it so close that he talks to the press about it?

What do you know that he doesn't, and how? Being that he's a critical care consultant at Wales's biggest hospital and all.

Are you deliberately missing the point?

The point was that the consultant said it was close to being overrun at the peak of the pandemic in April and the BBC then changed that to say that it is within a week of being overrun NOW!! If you look again my first sentence was about journalists twisting things, Not about the consultant being wrong.

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Are you deliberately missing the point?

The point was that the consultant said it was close to being overrun at the peak of the pandemic in April and the BBC then changed that to say that it is within a week of being overrun NOW!! If you look again my first sentence was about journalists twisting things, Not about the consultant being wrong.

I have lost count of the number of times my dad has been in ICU. If I had to hazard a guess, it would be 4 or 5 times. Each time, he was there for longer than a week. It was the one place where patients weren't turned around quickly.

There was also a recent story of a man emerging from ICU after 8 weeks. I think that the typical length of stay on ICU exceeds one week.

Which means that we are not missing the point. You seem to be turning the reporting into an anti-BBC thing, delmbox is pointing out that being 1 week from being over run is not a positive. In fact, it shows how close we came to getting overrun - had the stay home message been delivered a day or two later, UHW would have been in trouble.

As it is, it survived (this time), and sick people didn't need to be sent to the Principality Stadium (some people see the use of the stadium as a failure considering hardly any patients went there).

But, for some odd reason, you think that we weren't in danger of being overrun. When you are asked to clarify this, you accuse people of missing "the point" which is "to kick the BBC".