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English NHS, government and BBC proudly announced that London's ExCel centre has been revamped into NHS Nightingale Hospital London. 4000 ICU beds, one gigantic floor, hundreds of staff. https://www.bbc.co.u...ws/uk-52150598#

 

Personally I would hate to visit this place, and I feel sorry for NHS staff, nurses and doctors who will be working there. What will be the concentration of SARS-Cov-2, other viruses and bacteria in the air? Ignaz Semmelweis's lesson to wash hands is now the most repeated lesson around the world. Why to wash hands? To prevent spreading viruses and bacteria. How does NHS plan to prevent spreading airborne viruses and bacteria inside the gargantuan open floor NHS Nightingale Hospital?

 

It looks to me as if NHS Nightingale Hospital London is a biohazard bomb. Did I miss something? I hope someone can show that I'm very much mistaken.

 

 

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Why do you think this particular setup would be any worse that a regular hospital?

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Why do you think this particular setup would be any worse that a regular hospital?

 

There is ~500 beds in one OPEN floor setup. (It seems advertised 4000 is possible after further expansion). Fresh air will be pushed from the top and sides and all the biohazard particles will be swept at low level (where staff and patients reside) all across the giant floor.

In the setup of small rooms, it's at least technically possible to build higher pressure in the corridor / entry side, keep rooms sealed and each room can have a separate exhaust. In the NHS Nightingale Hospital London it is difficult to say how long the same volume of air will be breathed multiple times by different people.

Thus it worries me people will bath in the soup of dirty air, much more than in the typical hospital setup.


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All the patients will have coronavirus anyway, so there's no issue there. Hopefully the doctors and nurses will be given sufficiently good protective equipment; but if not, then sadly there may be further cases of medics catching coronavirus and dying. I think there have been 5 deaths among UK medics treating coronavirus patients so far. 

 

The UK government and senior NHS management screwed up badly with not planning in advance to manufacture more protective equipment.