I follow Maajid Nawaz on Twitter and he shares a lot of interesting information on this, some might call it propaganda and others might say he is providing a public service. The latest is Facebook fact-checking a consultant cardiologist, the 8 minute clip of a conversation between him & Nawaz on LBC is well worth a listen.

Phild I agree with your point on capacity, as you say every single year there are headlines around winter pressures so by now the system should be more resilient to that.

Govt. is right to be cautious until we know if the new variant is susceptible to the vaccines and more is known as to the severity of symptoms.