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The facts about Coronavirus according to the man who runs the NHS
here“The health service has been working incredibly hard to prepare and to catch up on the care that was disrupted during the first wave.”Sir Simon told the conference that at the beginning of September under 500 patients were in hospital with coronavirus.By October this was up to 2,000 and now, in November, it is over 11,000.He says that is the equivalent of 22 of our hospitals in England being full of coronavirus patients.“Those are facts, not projections,” he said.He explained that the reason action is needed is because the infections that are happening now, are part of what will produce that increase in hospitalisations.The 11,000 patients in hospital with coronavirus is compared to the 3,000 they’d usually have in hospital at any one