Hospitals may have fewer Covid-19 patients now but the statistics point to worrying times ahead for the NHS
Despite the Omicron coronavirus variant reaching the UK, with its threats of accelerated transmissibility and vaccine evasion, there remains a certain complacency about its potential impact on the NHS.
The argument being put forward can be boiled down to: “The NHS was treating far more Covid patients at points in the pandemic than it is now, so what’s the problem?”