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Fox

Matt Hancock has just said the army have got 7.5 million pieces of PPE out to NHS workers over the last 24 hours. I guess if you want something done, get the army in.

And a temporary 4,000-bed hospital will be opened at the ExCel centre. Really hope I have already had it because I don't fancy that much.

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mespilus in reply to @Fox

I have very faded memories of visiting my maternal grandmother in her declining days at the old Central Middlesex Hospital. To an 8yo, the ward seemed to be never ending, but I'm guessing only 40 or 50 patients on either side.
4000 sounds like something from the Crimean War, so it is, at least well named.

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Acliff in reply to @mespilus

Excel centre is absolutely enormous, and also has excellent delivery/loading facilities, as well multiple entrance points, which may come in handy for minimising viral spread.

Remember being extremely impressed with how it was set up during London 2012 (was a volunteer at the time)

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