Thread by @1goodtern

Do midwives know that they're now twice as likely to be off sick with a pregnancy related disorder than before the Covid pandemic started?

Do nurses?
And health visitors?

Similar trend across all staff groups, with an apparent accelerating increase more recently.

Across *all* doctors in hospitals and healthcare settings.

And, no, that's not because there are more people working for the NHS.

Those are the *rates* of sickness absence.

And, no, it's not because the workforce is aging.

Doctors in core training are young.

Foundation Year 2 Doctors are *young*.

And, no, it's not because more women are getting pregnant.

Unless you're also suggesting that people have more stomachs now.

Or more eyes.

Or more teeth.

Or more brains.

Seriously this stuff is huge.

Nervous system disorders across all staff groups.

Across all staff groups again.

These rises are just nuts.

It's exactly what we predicted would happen after repeat covid infections, and it's getting worse *now*.

The worst month for sickness absence rates for each of these has been in the last three months of data:
Anxiety/Stress/Depression (all of which made more likely by the physical damage caused by covid infection)
Muskuloskeletal problems
Headache/Migraine
Benign and malignant tumours and cancers
Blood disorders
Heart, cardiac, circulatory problems
Dental and oral problems
Eye problems
Endocrine and glandular problems
Gastrointestinal problems
Genitourinary and gynaecological disorders
Injuries and fractures
Nervous system disorders
Pregnancy related disorders
Skin disorders

All of which have been repeatedly proven to be worsened by repeat covid infections.

Most of the graphs show the conditions to be *getting worse still*, and some show signs that the *worsening is accelerating*.

This database is huge.
It's not small numbers, it's huge ones.
digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor…

It's people in every community in the country, right the way across the country.

It only represents people of *working age*.

Some of the charts only represent people *in their 20s*.

We have data from other sectors that backs up similar trends.

A sustained and possible still growing increase in sickness absence of teachers.

A sustained increase in sickness absence of pupils at school.

Here's sickness absence for Civil Servants in England.

Now up to nearly **twenty percent** above the rate pre-pandemic.

AND GROWING.

Data for that from here:
gov.uk/government/pub…

And, of course, that's not including the people who have died or been disabled and had to leave work.

Are things getting worse still?

Yes.

And I think the cause is covid infections.

I see it all the time still now, people catching covid and then experiencing a decline in health.

It's just a constant drip drip drip of deterioration.

And no one seems willing to turn off the tap.

And... it's worse for young people than old...