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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
71 last Monday where my wife works which was almost double the week before. I think, at the moment, it's the increasing levels of staff of ill with it that should be worrying us.
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Yes, and as they are in contact (and testing) with people who have the virus that is potentially going to go up, even if they wear masks.
I appreciate training to be a nurse or a doctor takes several years, and that importing them isn't really the answer either, but surely the NHS has had years to plan for a solution to their recruitment issues, and that for whatever reason the NHS not adequately being able to crisis manage or plan contingency for staff shortages etc (which are likely, though I'm sure you have better inside info than I do, to be the main reasons something like this puts the NHS under "pressure" aside from the obvious one) isn't really a valid reason to put the general population under restrictions. It's like saying let's close everything in a town because the school is closed as all the teachers and some of the kids have norovirus.
The other thing which concerns me is how the virus can spread in hospitals. Yes, I know it's contagious and I know people can have it before they get ill or test positive, but what precautions are they taking to isolate those with covid so they don't spread it? Are patients with covid being kept apart from those who don't? Are the staff changing PPE enough?