Originally Posted by
Asturias56
As I understand it Coronavirus cases are not time critical - you suffer for a couple of weeks (according to a friend who has it right now) - emergency evacuation by helicopter is very unlikely to be needed
And why would you risk infecting a helicopter that costs millions and its highly trained crew when a £20k ambulance will do the job just as well?
I don't expect these are intending to be used for what your thinking, more likely its to facilitate quicker evacuation of those that are to be moved to the large temp facilities being setup around the country for the short time they have left to free up local NHS ICU's for those that are deemed to have a greater chance of recovery.