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Coronavirus - the new strain XXIV

NHS privatisation drive linked to rise in avoidable deaths, study suggests
Outsourcing accelerated by Lansley’s shakeup in 2012 linked to drop in care quality in landmark review

The privatisation of NHS care accelerated by Tory policies a decade ago has corresponded with a decline in quality and “significantly increased” rates of death from treatable causes, the first study of its kind says.

Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash has since been handed to private companies to treat NHS patients, according to the landmark review.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...ed-to-rise-in-avoidable-deaths-study-suggests
 
The rate of people testing positive for Covid-19 has continued to increase across the UK, the Office for National Statistics says. Cases rose by more than 30% in the past week.

In both England and Wales about one in 30 people would have had coronavirus in the week ending 24 June, data just released says. [A week behind]

In Northern Ireland it was about 1 in 25 and in Scotland the rate was about 1 in 18.

What's the probability that at least one person in the space you're in has covid? How does it depend on the population prevalence? How does it depend on the number of people in the room? [For multiple occasions across the day then the probability of infection will be additive.]

https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1542767039814713346/photo/1
 
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When you drive into work and see more ambulances outside A/E than you’ve ever seen in 35 years you know it will be a bad shift! Later, you hear there are 38 ambulances stuck outside the Hospital (probably 80% of Ambulances available at night in Norfolk) you know we’re up completely up shit creek. To be clear, this is only marginally Covid related. It is mainly to do with the Cuts in social care over the Tory/Lib Dem austerity years. We have had approximately 170 ‘medically fit’ patients stuck in hospital for months.
If the NHS only had to deal with actually Ill people we’d be ok!
 
From hearing about friends who too had avoided Covid thus far, it seems we’re being mopped up by the current variants because:

1) they are very transmissible
2) there are virtually no restraining measures or testing in place

The plan to “live with Covid” appears to mean let the nation be sick in the summer and hope this brings some form of herd resilience. I do wonder how many will be sick through July. If fairness there has to be a way to run life as normally as possible but we’ve gone much too far. Some mask wearing wouldn’t be a massive imposition.
Still wearing my FPP2 mask in public indoor spaces, usually the only one though!
 
Where’s the herd immunity? Our research shows why Covid is still wreaking havoc
Danny Altmann
‘Living with the virus’ is proving much harder than the early vaccine success suggested: this fight is far from over
  • Danny Altmann is a professor of immunology at Imperial College London
"Rather than a wall of immunity arising from vaccinations and previous infections, we are seeing wave after wave of new cases and a rapidly growing burden of long-term disease. What’s going on? The latest scientific research has some answers."

Contrary to the myth that we are sliding into a comfortable evolutionary relationship with a common-cold-like, friendly virus, this is more like being trapped on a rollercoaster in a horror film.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/01/herd-immunity-covid-virus-vaccine
 
Got first symptoms 2 weeks ago, Mrs followed about 3 days later. Flu like symptoms followed by squirts then complete loss of taste and smell for about 3 or 4 days. General recovery but the last 5 days pretty lousy with a chest infection, probably weakness from asthma. On antibiotics so fingers crossed. Thankfully Mrs is doing fine.
 
Got first symptoms 2 weeks ago, Mrs followed about 3 days later. Flu like symptoms followed by squirts then complete loss of taste and smell for about 3 or 4 days. General recovery but the last 5 days pretty lousy with a chest infection, probably weakness from asthma. On antibiotics so fingers crossed. Thankfully Mrs is doing fine.
Sorry to hear you got a heavy case, EB. Hope it passes soon and completely.
 


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