🦠Quick thread 🧵 on latest #Covid19 #Omicron situation. Summary: inequalities and learning lessons! Please read & RT @CMPHN @ADPHUK @FPH @R_S_P_H 1/15
🦠Confirmed cases of #Covid19 in #Liverpool are the highest they have ever been, lots of people are off work sick, causing disruption to key services and the wider economy, and hospitalisations have jumped in the last week. Deaths will follow… 2/15
🦠It is clear that the #Omicron wave is well and truly upon us in the north west, following the experience in London and the South East 3/15
🦠Yorks & Humber, and East of England, in similar position, and rest of the country will follow very shortly #pandemic 4/15
🦠Hopefully this wave will be over quicker than previous waves, and with a milder variant, but it would be naive to assume it still isn’t going to leave a trail of destruction in its path. This destruction will be greater in poorer communities #inequalities 5/15
🦠The impact of this wave of course is not just on people with covid, but on people needing help and support for anything / everything else… a challenge that is already bigger in some areas! #inequalities #again 6/15
🦠The optimist in me says this could be the #Covid19 final hurrah, settling into #endemicity afterwards, still with ongoing impact and loss of life, but more manageable than the big waves we have experienced so far 7/15
🦠And then the pessimist in me says we won’t truly know it’s the end until a few years afterwards. This is after all a virus that has continued to surprise us so far 8/15
🦠Lessons from history often serve us well. The 1918 flu pandemic lasted 2 years, 4 big waves, and with a likely 5th wave a year after the pandemic had finished 9/15
🦠Whatever the endgame is, a few things are clear to me. We have to get serious about addressing #inequalities both now and in the future, to address harms as a result of #Covid19 and to prevent harm from future pandemics 10/15
🦠We must take the time to learn the lessons properly from the last 2 years. What has worked, what hasn’t , what needs improving. We need to predict, prepare, prevent, respond to, and recover from pandemics of the future @ThePandemicInst 11/15
🦠We also need to get better at engaging with our #communities at both a local and national level, truly listening to and responding to marginalised groups. Local often works better in my view 12/15
🦠And we should be thankful for the brilliant #publichealth teams across the country who have consistently stepped up to the challenge of this pandemic, alongside incredible health, care, emergency services, and the amazing Voluntary/Community/Faith sector 13/15
🦠Everyone is tired, oh so tired of this. And it will end, all pandemics end… but right now we are in the eye of the storm once again, so back to work it is, trying to keep our communities safe, and our economy working 14/15
🦠It take a community to manage a pandemic. And we are all desperate to avoid harmful lockdowns, So in the meantime, #GetVaccinated, #GetTested #BeCovidWise #BeKind 🙏 END 15/15

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