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Depends what's the greatest threat to their life but, and I stand by it, using the nightingales for covid only is also safest for those treating them.
What do you think a nightingale should be for then?
Doesn't work like greatest threat - therer are immediate effects which you need to balance against long term effects.
I mentioned dialysis and 28% of covid patients require dialysis. So now you would need to build up this facility and consultants to manage this if you offloaded all the Covid patients. As many covid patients have co-morbidities then you would need to have cover for all the illnesses - so you are arguing rebuilding the same facilities in a building not suited for that just to say you can keep all the patients in one place. Would you then also build an AnE dept as well? But then how would this work? How would you know they have covid without testing? Where would you keep them in the interim?
Your argument keeping all the covid patients in the Nightingale as a veneer of simplicity to it but no real practicality.
Well the Nightingales throughout the country will only be used for step down now - some sense has prevailed.