"We are now hitting the same number of deaths today as we did in the first wave. That's a thousand a day. But what's really concerning is that the number of people in beds in the United Kingdom has far surpassed that of the first wave. And we're in the middle of all our winter pressures. "

"This new transmissible strain, it's a horror. It's between 50 and 70 percent more transmissible. More of our health care staff are getting sick this time. We lost over six hundred and fifty in the whole, in the last wave. Everybody is very concerned. "

"There's a real fear that within two weeks London will run out of beds. It's deeply worrying that this is what's happening and everybody is terrified of that. We've stopped elective surgery, we've closed Outpatients. We are using every available bed. And in fact, my husband's hospital last night, it declared it was one hundred and seventy three percent full in Kent. And there wasn't a single unoccupied bed in the hospital. All doctors, all staff, all nurses are being mobilized. Whatever their job, they're being deployed into roles and everything's changed so that we can try and save as many lives as possible."

"We were the first medical organization to call for an early lockdown when representing actually front line staff. But what we can't forget here is the effect of this on the population. So many people losing their jobs, having mental health problems, being locked in, you know, in lockdown, school kids not being able to go to school.Now, there is obviously a lot of problems when you do that, but you have to balance that against the fact that people are dying. This is a catastrophe. We have to get on top of this virus."

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