slats11 - thanks for that - interesting.
If I was china I'd be selling my "Build a 1,000 bed hospital in a week" model around the world right now.....
Given the number of bed blockers in UK hospitals (no local care places) I can't believe we can't bulk purchase hotels (as per the heathrow quarantine location a few weeks back), shift a load of "low nursing requirement" folks out to these "hospitels" and use final year student nurses and medics to keep an eye on them to free up beds in proper hospitals for the surge to come. Mind you - given the volumes expected this probably buys 1-2 weeks capacity at best...... Enough time for china to build us a few 1,000 bed units?