Things are sounding pretty bleak in the UK. Between high infection rates and a huge number of absences, it looks like the NHS is again having some pretty serious issues including:
- they've passed their January 2022 peak for hospitalizations.
- some hospitals in Yorkshire have warned people to stay away from emergency rooms unless they are in "genuine, life-threatening situations.”
- An ambulance trust serving 7M people had to begin to triage their services and were having issues handling the 999 (their 911) call volumes.
- hospitals in Hampshire and Isle of Wight have had to try to discharge infectious COVID positive patients early in order to create room for new patients.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ical-incidents
Hopefully not a preview of what we'll be dealing with soon, but it's hard to see how we won't. They have a higher vaccination/booster rate and likely have a higher level of prior infections.