our medical ellard esther reports. no one wa nts to ellard esther reports.e wants to see a huge wave of covid cases in hospital with nhs staff working round the clock and ppe. the government's key advisers on the pandemic delivered a sombre warning. other hospital cases are low 110w other hospital cases are low now compared to april, that could all change. if we don't do enough to buy this will take off and at the moment, that is the path that we are clearly on and if we do not change course then we are going to find ourselves in a very different problem. it is thought the epidemic is doubling in size in the uk every week. that was to happen for the next four weeks we could have nearly 50,000 cases per day and this was not a prediction from government scientists. it does not take into account measures to control covid like the rule of six which only came into force a week ago and it would still be half the estimated number of cases that we saw in early april. government scientists are worried that we could be just a few weeks behind spain and france where ca