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Greater Manchester’s mayor, Andy Burnham, along with other leaders from the local council, had opposed the government’s push to implement more restrictive measures without also providing the requested financial support for the lowest paid members of society and businesses Last week, while talks were ongoing between the government and Manchester’s local leaders, a document leaked to the Guardian showed that Greater Manchester could soon run out of critical care beds owing to covid-19 and that some hospitals in the region were already full 1 In a letter to Johnson,2 Burnham suggested that the government had attempted to “raise public concern about the NHS in Greater Manchester with selective statistics ” A spokesperson for the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership told The BMJ, “This is a dynamic, changing situation, and our hospitals will vary their overall bed capacity, including intensive care units, to cope with demand, as well as working collaboratively to take care of patients [ ]the overall numbers and capacity in the system and in individual hospitals varies from day to day ”
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