In the UK, they have massively ramped up hospital capacity. Expanding staffing is a slow process if you are talking about trained doctors and nurses though. Regardless, it would seem ill-advised to have infected staff tending to patients in hospitals, so if the omicron variant is tearing through the population at a rate of 1m+ per week -- regardless of the severity of symptoms -- it has the potential to mess up whether hospitals can run properly or not. This then has a knock-on for healthcare of every variety.
It may well be that this all comes to a head very quickly and passes, but simply ignoring it and hoping the health system copes seems more than a little reckless. Any government not making plans to protect the effectiveness of the healthcare system is likely to be judged negligent in the future by arbiters of such things (the media, voters, the judiciary, historians, etc).
It may well be that this all comes to a head very quickly and passes, but simply ignoring it and hoping the health system copes seems more than a little reckless. Any government not making plans to protect the effectiveness of the healthcare system is likely to be judged negligent in the future by arbiters of such things (the media, voters, the judiciary, historians, etc).
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