To try and relieve pressure, bosses at the University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) they would be “closing the front door” of its 3 main hospitals to non-emergency patients for the first time as CV19 has stretched to ‘its limits’.
“Anyone who turns up and who has not been involved in an accident or does not have an emergency will not be treated. Instead patients will be told to see their GP, call NHS 111 or care for themselves.”
“The trust estimates this could affect up to 330 patients a day and help prevent long delays in patients stuck waiting in ambulances because the A&E departments are full. “
Across the trust there are more than 210 patients with coronavirus on Friday, including 19 in intensive care.
“Birmingham saw 314 people test positive for Covid-19 on Thursday with the city seeing a seven-day rate of infection of around 187 cases for every 100,000 people – far less than areas such as Liverpool, where the rolling average is more than 688 cases”
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ALSO the way this information was received by Trump.
Imagine being told that multiple sources, inc intercepted communications, showed that your lawyer Giuliani was interacting with people tied to Russian intelligence during a December 2019 trip to Ukraine,
That he was there to serve YOUR interests, gathering information that he thought would expose corrupt acts by former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter....so pointing the finger at you...
“(Ignoring ) the content of any deal, which has been clear for months, the UK compromises on level playing field, the EU on fish. Something so obvious really isn't the fundamental issue. Could, as some not noted for their perspicacity have said, be done in an afternoon”
The thing is. It wasn’t and just when we are right in the middle of a pandemic. The choice was there.
Flouncing and behaving like children has been the absolutely unforgivable state of play.
Meanwhile businesses are floundering for want of clarity, certainty & tested systems.
The continuing upward pressure on hospitals continues .
Remember Covid is not a condition where most people are admitted for a day. Many can be in hospital for weeks hence exponential pressure on beds.
Taking England in hospital cases today with the Scottish, NI and Welsh in hospital data from their most recent reports there are MOST likely over 6k in patients with COVID right now.
On top of the NHS usual work.
That is a massive burden and the trajectory suggests ➡️ worse.
Likely the same to be said about daily admissions. Latest data for England, NI and Wales is Thursday. Scotland Tuesday.
I will be surprised if we are not on c 1k daily admissions today.
That is really hard on doctors and nurses, let alone the poor devils admitted + families
I did not realise, when I suggested it, that pooled testing for the routine “screening” cohort -eg care homes HCW (as opposed to the symptomatic testing cohort) was already in use in Germany, USA &++ countries
It is one of the reasons why I think there is an urgent need to separate out the cohorts in testing and positivity rates.
Partly to monitor positivity rates separately and partly to provide a gold standard base line to pilot pooled testing in a resource limited environment.
Once the positivity rates in the cohort gets too high it makes pooled testing less useful.