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Why would anyone be surprised? A decade of grotesque misgovernment has left the NHS sickenly unprepared for what is fast becoming the biggest crisis in its history. It didn’t have to be like this. Germany has 25,000 intensive care beds, with full respiratory equipment, and is doubling capacity, France has 7,000 IC beds and Italy 5,000, with many more on the way.
And the UK? We have barely 4,000 IC beds, 17,000 fewer standard beds than a decade ago, none of the 5,000 additional GPs promised by Cameron in 2015 and a chronic shortage of nurses.
Result: UK Corvid mortality rate has shot up from nowhere a couple of weeks ago to fourth highest (4.6%) in Europe.
When this is over some very very hard questions are going to have to be answered by the gang of mendacious chancers masquerading as a government.