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The utter rediculousness and lack of understanding around this virus and its propogation is quite frankly unbelievable. Everyone wants to draw comparisons with other countries. Simple common sense should allow you to realise that all the published figures depend on who you test, how often you test and what testing regimes are in place. Unless we are all doing exactly the same thing then the figures are proxy comparisons at best. Tanzania has about the same population as us and they only have 16 deaths - perhaps we should adopt their approach to combating the virus?
In Italy and Spain, the healthcare system became overloaded and there were not enough Critical care facilities to help those that were sick and therefore people died becouse someone had to make a decition about who gets the critical care facility and who does not.
Has this happened in the UK? has anybody that needed Critical care been denied access to it?
I thought the HSJ was meant to help promote understanding in Healthcare? perhaps it should start there