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To: MAGAthon

Tweet: Nigel Farage
If this is the case, then why do the NHS Nightingale Hospitals stand completely empty?

Nigel was replying to Sky (COMCAST) News Breaking tweet:
Figures released by NHS England show there are now more COVID-19 patients in NHS hospitals in England than there were during the April peak of the first wave
29 Dec 2020

reply to Nigel:
sky_trees: Nigel, you’ve got to get back in the game ASAP. People like me have no voice; both mainstream parties are in thrall to lockdown. You’ve got to help change the course as a matter of urgency, just like you did with Brexit...
For more on this and other news visit http://news.sky.com
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1343668640583798784

following is full of covid porn, but at least it’s exposing the Nightingale scandal:

30 Dec: Daily Mail: Only 28 Covid patients are currently being treated in No10’s £220million Nightingale hospitals while top doctor begs ministers to use ALL of the mothballed facilities - as make-shift units get dismantled ‘because there aren’t enough staff to run them’
Three Nightingales - Bristol, Manchester and Harrogate - never received a Covid-19 patient, figures reveal
A Covid adviser has called on the NHS to use the mothballed facilities to treat spiralling numbers of patients
London’s Nightingale hospital has been stripped of most of its 4,000 beds, ventilators and even signs
£220million was splashed on seven Nightingales which were hailed as a solution for overwhelmed hospitals
But only one started treating Covid-19 patients, with three still standing empty during the second wave
Comes as virus hospitalisations in England surged past the levels seen during the first wave of the pandemic
By LUKE ANDREWS
NHS hospitals are said to be bursting at the seams with more than 20,000 Covid patients that they are desperately trying to cram into socially-distanced wards, but the seven £220million Nightingales stand empty despite having a combined capacity of more than 10,000 beds between them...

Just 249 Covid patients have been admitted to the Nightingales over the eight months since April, official figures reveal — the equivalent of roughly £883,000 to the public purse each...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9095087/Londons-Nightingale-hospital-quietly-broken-arent-medics.html


8 posted on 12/29/2020 7:08:00 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

Glad we don’t have the NHS here in the States.


9 posted on 12/29/2020 7:11:36 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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