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Some grumblings about it did reach the good people at everyone's favourite medical journal, yes.
Even without that, it seems difficult to believe that a network of just 23 hospitals could cope with admitting 100 children a week with such a serious condition; GOSH's PICU has 17 beds (although not all would find their way there).
The weaselling around the critical figure - 'up to', 'it is believed' and attributing the figure to Doctors they will not name nor describe how the figure was arrived at is a bit of a give away as to their level of certainty, but this is the Guardian: fuck it let's chuck the scariest stuff possible stuff in the headline because we need the numbers and freak out parents nationally.
Howard
Ah, OK. Do you already have a reference for that or did you hear it from Dr C?