The private hospitals were used last year … they were contracted to provide operating theatres and recovery beds for long awaited ‘routine’ operations. That’s where my son had his long awaited op for a huge cyst in his inner ear, just after last Christmas … on the NHS …. all Suffolk’s ENT ops were being done there to keep them away from the major hospitals where the ENT departments were full of Covid patients on respirators.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Herd immunity can never be reached for a virus that mutates so frequently.
Sadly waiting till we know how severe Omicron is before we make decisions, is likely to lead to catastrophe, if it is bad. Unless we essentially over react, we run the real risk of totally under reacting.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Can you have herd immunity anyway if you can be re-infected and still spread the disease - even if the ability to contract and spread the disease is lessened?
What I don't quite follow (again) is the state of the NHS. Back in November, down here in the South there were reports of Ambulances queueing and lack of beds that early in winter - those reports went on for a week plus. That also appeared on the national news. All pre-Omicron. How did that situation resolve itself - and irrespective of Omicron - what resources are available now (given still that we're only really just starting winter)?
What I don't quite follow (again) is the state of the NHS. Back in November, down here in the South there were reports of Ambulances queueing and lack of beds that early in winter - those reports went on for a week plus. That also appeared on the national news. All pre-Omicron. How did that situation resolve itself - and irrespective of Omicron - what resources are available now (given still that we're only really just starting winter)?
Resolved? No, it hasn't resolved. The crises have deepened.
Why has it all but vanished from the news? Surely ANY additional numbers then from Omicron (or Delta or flu or ... for that matter) will then pose a problem?
Why has it all but vanished from the news? Surely ANY additional numbers then from Omicron (or Delta or flu or ... for that matter) will then pose a problem?
That's the point .......... and I've no idea what news you're listening to/watching/reading ... but it's not disappeared from the news I read https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59682075
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For a while it was on the BBC six o'clock news every day - a bit like the fuel shortage. It seemed so dire at that point (pre Omicron), that we cancelled our family Christmas get together as it seemed iffy, even with Delta, to potentially burden the services more. I still watch the same news daily - and the current pressure hardly gets a mention - with the focus being on what the pressure may be if/when Omicron hits hospitalisations.
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Sadly waiting till we know how severe Omicron is before we make decisions, is likely to lead to catastrophe, if it is bad. Unless we essentially over react, we run the real risk of totally under reacting.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Source.. https://covid19.ssi.dk/virusvarianter/omikron (it is in Danish tho.. not unsurprisingly)
Resolved? No, it hasn't resolved. The crises have deepened.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.