https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/fed-anti-vaxxers-taking-hospital-beds/
From the link :
Hugh Montgomery, professor of intensive care at University College London, has just finished a 24-hour shift. He looks knackered and beaten, but not by the hours, nor the cumulative effect of battling a pandemic for 18 months. What gets him, he says, is that many of the patients he is treating shouldn’t be there. ICU beds, which could be used for cancer patients, or elderly people needing hip replacements, are being taken up by anti-vaxxers and Covid-deniers.
“We are running three beds to one nurse. It’s supposed to be 1:1,” says Montgomery. The numbers being admitted to hospital are predicted to rise six or seven-fold this winter. The problem is exacerbated by the burden of keeping Covid patients isolated. “We cannot put a Covid patient next to a cancer or hip-replacement patient, so we are running two health services. It’s not fair. We have got a disease we now understand, a safe vaccine that works, but the wards are full of people who don’t believe that to be true.”