Unvaccinated filling ICUs

Nov 21 2021 The Guardian

ICU is full of the unvaccinated – my patience with them is wearing thin

The unvaccinated are hoarding the ICUs and taking up valuable resources which should be available for the normal operations of the hospitals. A quote from the piece makes this clear:

If everyone got vaccinated, hospitals would be under much less pressure; this is beyond debate. Your wait for your clinic appointment/operation/diagnostic test/A&E department would be shorter. Your ambulance would arrive sooner. Reports of the pressure on the NHS are not exaggerated, I promise you.

And the basic message is sensible and realistic.

Fundamentally though, for me, it comes down to this. I can’t think of a single case offhand of a person who was previously fit and healthy who has ended up needing intensive care after being fully vaccinated. It may not stop you from catching Covid. But it can save your life when you do.

The writer of this piece is anonymous, and The Guardian desciption is: “The writer is an NHS respiratory consultant who works across a number of hospitals.”