[factsonly]

Seems the hospitals are still less busy than last year https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9043583/NHS-data-su...

[thebruce87m]

I don’t think you can infer how busy hospital staff are from this article even though hospitals may have fewer patients in them.

Not all hospital beds are equal. Can you put a covid patient in a bed next to a covid-free patient? Probably not.

How many staff are off ill or self isolating?

Can the covid staff treat non-covid patients? If so, is there a PPE robing/disrobing overhead to this?