To my knowledge they were set up to house people who would otherwise have been hospitalised- obviously there wasn’t enough capacity in our existing hospitals so they were the alternative- like an overflow car park Ultimately they were only used to administer the Covid vaccines- got both of mine at the Washington one
There was a huge staff shortage before they were built …
… but Boris just wanted to boast about building hospitals in a fortnight.
It was obviously ridiculous from the start.