Source - two weeks ago, and he said (devil in detail Leon) I
don’t think we are anywhere close to that kind of scenario
at the moment. Which is interesting because ICU beds run hot all the time anyway - as I'll demonstrate in a moment.
This link has some interesting numbers in it though:
London - 850?
Midlands - 425?
North West - 300?
South East - 300?
North East and Yorkshire - 300?
East of England - 250
Scotland - 200
South West - 125
Wales - 125
Northern Ireland - 50
So that's ~3000 beds as at 8th April just to Covid19.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistic...2020-auY71.pdf
In January 2020 there were 4123 beds at 83% occupancy rate. That leaves 700 beds free for all the Covid19 cases. Admittedly I think that link provides details of England alone but since it's where the problem is (the NI, Wales and Scotland numbers are low) that's a significant issue, which suggests we were not close to running out of beds.... we RAN OUT of beds.
It's odd to note hospitals are empty where you are.
Good job we went on that lockdown then, I guess?