Funnelling all “available” NHS staff to vaccinate is a poor strategy.
Appropriate response is to:
1. Mitigate properly
2. Redeploy to frontline to treat the sick.
3. Then boost when able.
To avoid a few weeks of sharp restrictions a lot of people will suffer unnecessarily.
Appropriate response is to:
1. Mitigate properly
2. Redeploy to frontline to treat the sick.
3. Then boost when able.
To avoid a few weeks of sharp restrictions a lot of people will suffer unnecessarily.
1. Letting #Omicron spread without capacity to treat the sick is not a sound public health strategy. Nor is it sound clinical prioritisation or appropriate critical incident triaging. It may temporarily appease those who have little idea of the consequences.
2. Our first duty is to treat the sick. It is pandemic management 101. Find them, isolate them, treat them. Do it well and the threat lessens.
No doubt vaccines lessen the threat, but mortality still depends heavily on access to treatment, as the UK and US have shown previously.
No doubt vaccines lessen the threat, but mortality still depends heavily on access to treatment, as the UK and US have shown previously.
3. And with a 2-week lag in vaccine protection and a 25% immune escape rate, and unknown duration of action, vaccine alone will not prevent many preventable deaths - Covid, non-Covid, old and young. And will not get us off this traumatic merry-go-round.
4. The right move now (with the state of the UK’s infrastructure) is to have short, sharp restrictions. Use the time to strengthen the healthcare service and make offices, schools, venues, etc…less hospitable to airborne viruses.
And yes, buy time to boost.
And yes, buy time to boost.
5. With the NHS 9% over safe capacity levels, people dying in ambulances, longest 12-hour A&E wait ever, longest waiting lists, GPs depleted, staff sickness only worsening,…and now more Covid, staff should be deployed where patient risk is greater: front door and primary care
6. We need an increased basic care capacity. We need to triage effectively and protect staff. This can permit other essential care to continue and society to tolerate surges in infections better.
Putting all staff to vaccinate does not provide the protection the public now needs
Putting all staff to vaccinate does not provide the protection the public now needs
Better use of healthcare staff…
@NicolaSturgeon @sajidjavid @HelenRSalisbury @ChrisCEOHopson @chrischirp @DrGregorSmith @trishgreenhalgh @dgurdasani1 @ReicherStephen @CNagpaul @DrSelvarajah @DrNeenaJha @theAliceRoberts @DRTomlinsonEP @EricTopol @DrEricDing @SGriffin_Lab
@NicolaSturgeon @sajidjavid @HelenRSalisbury @ChrisCEOHopson @chrischirp @DrGregorSmith @trishgreenhalgh @dgurdasani1 @ReicherStephen @CNagpaul @DrSelvarajah @DrNeenaJha @theAliceRoberts @DRTomlinsonEP @EricTopol @DrEricDing @SGriffin_Lab
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
