Chris Whitty

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... I just think he is amazing and so straight talking. He knows his stuff and seems down to earth. I love the way he handles the questions from the press and concentrates on the task in hand.

Except Chris whitty is still stood at side of Boris,

Yes that's his job - where you prefer him to stand?

Chris whitty has presented out of date data

Evidence for this? Don't believe it's true.

hospitals have never been full.

Hahahah, great joke. You're either blind or stupid if you don't know hospitals have had zero beds available many times over.

So pleased he and JVT have been knighted. What an awful couple of years they've had at work. I would have jacked it in long ago!

Certain sections of hospitals have been full not the whole of them.

And yes whitty and Vallance used out of date data, here you go
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54831334

Fabulous news!

That's Sir Chris Whitty.

A true hero

For once a really well deserved knighthood.

(Can't believe Tony Blair!)

He's a brilliant man. I respect him so much. Why, though, do they not give him a clicker so that he can move his own slides through the PowerPoint?

[quote Againstmachine]Certain sections of hospitals have been full not the whole of them.

And yes whitty and Vallance used out of date data, here you go
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54831334[/quote]
Oh dear
Seems your opinion is irrelevant
Goodnight

[quote Againstmachine]Certain sections of hospitals have been full not the whole of them.

And yes whitty and Vallance used out of date data, here you go
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54831334[/quote]
Really just shows you have no clue how the healthcare system works.,,,lor probably anything

*Oh dear
Seems your opinion is irrelevant
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Oh dear So is yours.

Brilliant to see good people getting recognition in times like these

yes fantastic

I'm pleased about Sir Chris Witty's honour and I'm not even British..What dedication and fortitude he has shown throughout this ordeal... he is working down in the trenches..not just talking about it on the TV.
Not to derail, but I'm also pleased with Dame Joanna Lumley!

I was really pleased to hear about Chris Whitty (& Jonathan Van Tam's!) receiving honours.

Recognition where it's due!

How many of us would even a) be qualified enough to do the jobs they do and b) be able to put up with Boris and his cronies!

Is this a sponsored post?
I honestly don’t know anyone in real life who has a good thing to say about Chris Whitty, a man who looks like he’s never had a days fun in his life and who most certainly has had a “ good pandemic” which has left him very comfortably off.

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Is this a sponsored post? I honestly don’t know anyone in real life who has a good thing to say about Chris Whitty, a man who looks like he’s never had a days fun in his life and who most certainly has had a “ good pandemic” which has left him very comfortably off.

I would say exactly the opposite - everyone I know think he's drawn the short straw throughout the pandemic, and carried a massive amount of stress.

How has it left him 'comfortably off'? As the nation's CMO, I wouldn't have expected him to be on the breadline.

I like him, he seems like a decent and kind man of the sort it would be nice to have running the country rather than the narcissistic philandering oaf we actually have. But I slightly wish he had more overtly stood up to Boris and called out some of the absolute nonsense decisions. However I will forgive him for that because he might have risked losing the job for challenging the PM and being replaced with a complete yes-man. So I like to think it was a calculated decision to go for the lesser fo two evils so at least the British public have had someone talking some degree of sense in the public eye.

And I feel he’s had a way of making his true feelings clear on eg the parties at Downing St.

"Certain sections of hospitals have been full not the whole of them."

This is true but not in the way you think. When patients have serious Covid they need to be treated in ITU departments ("Intensive Treatment Units"). Staffing requirements for ITU wards are MUCH heavier than for general wards. In order to get the staff, other wards and outpatient departments need to be shut down in order to get the staff.

I work in the NHS, we have 8 clinicians in our department, 7 of them were transferred into the ITU wards during both Covid "spikes"....

So yes, that meant my department was "not full"... in fact it was very nearly shut down and we still have a huge backlog.

The fact that parts of hospitals are quiet when there is a spike in Covid does not mean that the hospital is not inundated with Covid patients, it's the exact opposite.