Thank you so much Christina for another really clear and to the point presentation. Given the low cost, ease of intervention, and effectiveness, I struggle to understand why there is such a block on wearing FFP2/3 masks and air filtration. The payback in terms of prevented absences and ill health would be immense. Could someone please analyse why there is the resistance and what could be done to address it.
Thank you so much for this. Sadly I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel. Many are so fearful of becoming ill and needing medical attention. Appointments to see specialists are hard to come by and if you get an appointment and treatment, any follow up to check on the progress or even to check that treatment is working as intended there is a further wait of many months for a follow up. The NHS is in such a poor state that I don’t see adequate improvements for years to come. When I look back to 2010 things were so much better then but I don’t see us getting back to those levels of care any time soon. Such a sad state the previous Govt has left our healthcare system in. Little wonder public health is in such a poor state!
My hubbys hospital has made everyone wear masks again due to these spikes. Why they are not mandatory all year round in hospitals is beyond me given how many are critically affected by colds, flus and covid.
As ever, thank you Christina for your helpful data presented in such invariably clear fashion.
It’s great to see Covid so low, but why? I think I saw something recently suggesting that in order to evade the immunity that we have all (more or less) now acquired, the virus is mutating into a form that causes milder symptoms.
Is that a possibility, or just wishful thinking? Would be great if you or one of your i-Sage colleagues could give an update at some point on what might be happening.
But Covid hospital admissions are low, so it's unlikely these are being underestimated, hence cases of severe Covid seem to have been few for many months.
Thanks again to you and Bob Hawkins and Paul Mainwood for keeping us up to date on swiftly moving data.
Hospitals however are the top indicators of a great sea of underlying dysfunctions, misapprehensions and concepts of 'solutions'? Britain retains something of the most 'efficient' cost/benefit universal health care system for mass urban societies, but is failing to deal with the tide of ill health. Concepts of public health, for example, are not what they were. Modernity is not what it says in the shop window? How and why? And we are not alone it seems.
I'm so glad to see you say that the flu has peaked and when I looked at the chart I can see Covid is low in comparison. I admit to having a big wobbly moment last night due to the news about Warwick Hospital going into critical incident status earlier in the week. I'm under Oxford, but from end October to Christmas I had need of A&E 5 times! All the same thing and sadly even though I was told otherwise, the only way into the ENT department was via A&E. One night the wait was very long and cold. I'm waiting for a small surgery now to hopefully stop the problem recurring, but I'm very nervous about the wait. Scared a bit witless by the thought of needing to go to A&E again now. Hopefully that's not going to happen. I wish there was light at the end of the tunnel for the NHS.
Thank you so much Christina for another really clear and to the point presentation. Given the low cost, ease of intervention, and effectiveness, I struggle to understand why there is such a block on wearing FFP2/3 masks and air filtration. The payback in terms of prevented absences and ill health would be immense. Could someone please analyse why there is the resistance and what could be done to address it.
Thank you so much for this. Sadly I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel. Many are so fearful of becoming ill and needing medical attention. Appointments to see specialists are hard to come by and if you get an appointment and treatment, any follow up to check on the progress or even to check that treatment is working as intended there is a further wait of many months for a follow up. The NHS is in such a poor state that I don’t see adequate improvements for years to come. When I look back to 2010 things were so much better then but I don’t see us getting back to those levels of care any time soon. Such a sad state the previous Govt has left our healthcare system in. Little wonder public health is in such a poor state!
My hubbys hospital has made everyone wear masks again due to these spikes. Why they are not mandatory all year round in hospitals is beyond me given how many are critically affected by colds, flus and covid.
As ever, thank you Christina for your helpful data presented in such invariably clear fashion.
It’s great to see Covid so low, but why? I think I saw something recently suggesting that in order to evade the immunity that we have all (more or less) now acquired, the virus is mutating into a form that causes milder symptoms.
Is that a possibility, or just wishful thinking? Would be great if you or one of your i-Sage colleagues could give an update at some point on what might be happening.
Hardly anyone tests for covid now hence why so low I imagine. If we tested I dread to think of the real numbers.
But Covid hospital admissions are low, so it's unlikely these are being underestimated, hence cases of severe Covid seem to have been few for many months.
Why?
Thanks again to you and Bob Hawkins and Paul Mainwood for keeping us up to date on swiftly moving data.
Hospitals however are the top indicators of a great sea of underlying dysfunctions, misapprehensions and concepts of 'solutions'? Britain retains something of the most 'efficient' cost/benefit universal health care system for mass urban societies, but is failing to deal with the tide of ill health. Concepts of public health, for example, are not what they were. Modernity is not what it says in the shop window? How and why? And we are not alone it seems.
I'm so glad to see you say that the flu has peaked and when I looked at the chart I can see Covid is low in comparison. I admit to having a big wobbly moment last night due to the news about Warwick Hospital going into critical incident status earlier in the week. I'm under Oxford, but from end October to Christmas I had need of A&E 5 times! All the same thing and sadly even though I was told otherwise, the only way into the ENT department was via A&E. One night the wait was very long and cold. I'm waiting for a small surgery now to hopefully stop the problem recurring, but I'm very nervous about the wait. Scared a bit witless by the thought of needing to go to A&E again now. Hopefully that's not going to happen. I wish there was light at the end of the tunnel for the NHS.
Thanks for playing the broken records. They need to be heard! Fingers crossed that the return to school doesn’t push the numbers up yet again.