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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I think Damien was referring to the potency of the illness now rather than the rate of transmission.
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Yes, OB and I think you'll find that exactly the point I addressed in my post. Such analysis is at an individual level, not a population one.
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Originally Posted by nffc
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?
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The Secretary of State for Health has been clear about there being no need for extra mitigations in hospitals. To fingerpoint at staff is absolutely laughable.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...g-covid-rules/
Indeed the Department for Health and Social Care is now threatening people off with Covid with disciplinary action under pre-Covid rules.
https://inews.co.uk/news/health/paid...s-soar-1719806
It doesn't sound very "learning to live with the virus" to not adapt HR policies to account for a virus that individuals will statistically catch two or three times a year. There's no evidence of learning at all.