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    Posted: December 30 2022 at 10:35am







Well it's all broken. There's nowhere to go. Hospitals at capacity, Primary Care (GP) at capacity, NHS 111 at capacity. Where are our leaders? Where is the communication to the public about what they can expect? Where are the mitigations? Nowhere. They're leaving us to die.

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With strikes exposing this govt’s wilful destruction of workers rights; the health crisis exposing their ruthless plans to kill the NHS; coal mines and sewage exposing their disregard for the country, I can only conclude they have resigned their party to defeat.

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My 92 yr old mother is lying on the floor at Warwick Hospital in agony. No trolleys. My brother, a doctor, is with her & said it is an absolute #ShitShow. Is this what we've let happen???? #NHSisBroken #GTTO

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This is what ICS's are reduced to. One area asking another area that's already collapsed to try and help them not collapse in turn. Patient harm is happening. Where are the Govt? Where is  leadership?

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🚨NHS screenshots🚨 We are sharing these screenshots of messages which were sent by a leader of an Integrated Care System, because we are desperately concerned for patient and staff well-being. We considered taking them to a journalist, but we are fed up of seeing reporting..

DJ,,,embedded, billionairse owned "free press" rather blame China lifting Zero CoViD...UK "conservatives" (or are they just neo-fascists in disguise ?) rather import HCW-ers then raise their income...

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Govt blatant misinformation: - £28bn - £1k per household - for public sector pay to rise with inflation: LIE - £700m for each 1% rise for nurse: LIE - Nurses had an 9% pay rise last year: LIE A bunch of lying crooks!


DJ, the UK "conservatives" want to "privatize everything" out of blind ideology...


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The problem is that people have become so used to the lies and lack of any sort of accountability that they no longer ask questions. 'All politicians lie' they say. Well no, not all politicians lie and apathy is dangerous.

DJ, since "new labour" is not any better then the "conservatives"...(In the US democrats fail to make enough of a difference compared to republicans...In most western countries "politics" became "for sale") maybe trade unions can make a difference ? National strikes to get politics to work for the people not just for profit....
• Firefighters don’t get subsidised food • Nurses don’t get free parking • Doctors don’t get free energy • Teachers don’t free travel • Tory MPs refusing to talk public sector pay get the lot- free parking; free travel; free energy and subsidised food. And £2,200 pay rises.

DJ, at a certain moment one could claim "genocide (of the poor) by pandemic". Risks of death/severe/long term illness is very unequal. 








It is still so weird to me that in the UK people can buy a seat in the legislature. πŸ€―

DJ [url]https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/29/one-in-10-tory-peers-have-given-more-than-100000-to-party?CMP=share_btn_tw[/url] or https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/29/one-in-10-tory-peers-have-given-more-than-100000-to-party?CMP=share_btn_twExclusive: 27 members of House of Lords have donated almost £50m in total to Conservatives

the [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords ;

The House of Lords,[a] also known as the House of Peers,[3] is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[4] Membership is by appointmentheredity or official function. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England.[5][6]

The House of Lords scrutinises bills that have been approved by the House of Commons.[7] It regularly reviews and amends bills from the Commons.[8] While it is unable to prevent bills passing into law, except in certain limited circumstances,[9] it can delay bills and force the Commons to reconsider their decisions.[10] In this capacity, the House of Lords acts as a check on the more powerful House of Commons that is independent of the electoral process.[11][12][13] While members of the Lords may also take on roles as government ministers, high-ranking officials such as cabinet ministers are usually drawn from the Commons. The House of Lords does not control the term of the prime minister or of the government.[14] Only the lower house may force the prime minister to resign or call elections.[15]

While the House of Commons has a defined number of members, the number of members in the House of Lords is not fixed. Currently, it has 786 sitting members. The House of Lords is the only upper house of any bicameral parliament in the world to be larger than its lower house,[16] and is the second-largest legislative chamber in the world behind the Chinese National People's Congress.

DJ reforms are needed...both in US, UK, NL...


Dear MPs As an a&e dr, I’m asking for your help Please do a shift at your local A&E and see the reality of what’s happening to our NHS. Not a photoshopped PR stunt but a chance to witness reality of our crumbling NHS Then demand change. Pls Retweet to help make this happen

DJ reality is brutal;

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My mum waited for an ambulance for 11 hours.  It never arrived.  Then we had to cancel it because she had died and no longer needed it.

and "politics";


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Dr Kieran Mullan (cons) is my local MP. Apparently he worked clinically during the pandemic, but it wasn’t at the hospital in his Crewe & Nantwich constituency, but he did have some photo shoots when a new A&E was built & opened. Not seen him visit since then. Unlikely to now.

Politics is about PR...staying in control of a flow of lots of money...It has become the main reason why we are in this worsening pandemic...not the answer...

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[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-while-the-world-is-concerned-about-china-s-covid-19-situation,-no-media-is-reporting-about-uk-s-covid-crisis-and-the-collapse-of-the-nhs[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-while-the-world-is-concerned-about-china-s-covid-19-situation,-no-media-is-reporting-about-uk-s-covid-crisis-and-the-collapse-of-the-nhs 

DJ; [url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/lack-of-good-analyses-contributes-to-the-decline-of-the-west.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/lack-of-good-analyses-contributes-to-the-decline-of-the-west.html ;

My feel this year was that political, economical and military issues discussed in the main stream media have parted from the objective reality more than they have done at any previous time in my life. I sometimes look into a mirror and think 'well, maybe its just you.' But it is not just me. Other analysts have come to similar conclusion. But, like me, neither of them gets quoted in main stream media and neither is paid in a traditional sense to publish on these issues.

Which, thinking of it, may well be the root of this theme.

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Russia no longer had a low level economy. Yes, its GDP in dollar terms was much lower than those of most European states. But its GDP per capita measured at purchase power of the ruble was quite high. Russia's GDP also includes a much higher percentage of real production and a lower percentage of dubious 'services'. Its health care sector is 5.6% of its GDP. In the U.S. it is 16.7%, without creating a much better outcome. 

(giving room for extreme incomes, profits on healthcare does not give better healthcare...) DJ, others described the US and UK as ; 

NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia https://ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945 Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people.


bad politics...tax a dirty word....simply ignoring basic lessons from history...repeating 19th century mistakes...

QUICK ENGLAND VARIANT UPDATE: Latest dominant variant BQ.1.1 is losing its dominance already - instead CH.1.1 (~16% of cases) and v new XBB.1.5 (~2%) are on the march. CH.1.1 is growing faster than BQ.1.1 did and (so far - small numbers!) XBB.1.5 is faster than CH.1.1. 

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XBB.1.5 has come to prominence this week as it surges in New York. 

 has summarised the evidence on it here https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-new-variant-alert I've seen less on CH.1.1 but apparently it has recently acquired a new mutation  n:t135i  which might accelerate its growth. 2/3

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Unclear what it means for UK in January/February, but certainly the virus isn't sitting still. Also, we have plenty of emerging variants and could be trying to reduce transmission without invoking what is currently happening in China!. 3/3

DJ, with very limited testing/reporting end of december we may be in for "surprises"....

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[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-covid-19-news-uk-s-covid-19-crisis-is-now-worse-than-china-no-hospital-beds-and-no-oxygen-and-no-death-reporting-who-should-intervene[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-covid-19-news-uk-s-covid-19-crisis-is-now-worse-than-china-no-hospital-beds-and-no-oxygen-and-no-death-reporting-who-should-intervene TMN can not stop being cynical, UK media reporting on the China-crisis while ignoring the UK one....






Politics UK πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

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One NHS worker from the South West: "We are now at the stage where there is not enough oxygen in cylinders to treat patients in corridors, ambulances and in our walk-in area in A&E. "Combined with flu, Covid and other respiratory conditions this is beyond Third World medicine."

DJ, another wave of coViD will be blamed on China..."there were only a limited number of cases in most western countries"...of course because the west stopped testing hardly any sequencing left...Most "Chinese" variants may be western variants now returning from China...

BREAKING: Number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 rises to 45,279, the highest since February

Also in the US HCW-ers may go on strike to demand better pay, lower risks...








The NHS on New Year’s Day is literally running out of oxygen. We have so many patients in corridors we don’t have enough portable oxygen cylinders. Drs are being asked to conserve OXYGEN. On your watch,   . Shameful.

link [url]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-e-delays-killing-up-to-500-people-a-week-g5kpxdpd6[/url] or https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-e-delays-killing-up-to-500-people-a-week-g5kpxdpd6 (public info - you already paid for it via tax- again behind paywall...). 








The NHS is overwhelmed. The reasons for this are multi-factorial. One of the major factors is because we are in an ongoing pandemic of a novel coronavirus that causes significant acute illness and sequelae. We need to start being honest and acknowledging this.

DJ, every time the cases decrease we see "idiots" screaming "the pandemic is over" while pandemics come in waves...

No doubt lots of countries may face a worsening healthcrisis later this january...healthcare may be beyond breaking point by now...the pandemic-based on earliest virus-findings- started in 2019 in several places-not only Wuhan-China...

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[url]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/06/patients-dying-nhs-hospital-corridors-avoidable-deaths?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other[/url] or https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/06/patients-dying-nhs-hospital-corridors-avoidable-deaths?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other ;

Be under no illusion: the hundreds of avoidable deaths in the NHS every week are the result of political decisions

  • Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor

DJ, why not call UK conservatives responsible for this murderers ? 

My colleague told me how his mum suddenly deteriorated over xmas (after living independently). After ambulance & handover delay, she then spent 28 hrs in hospital wheelchair in a corridor, confused, cold & sick. Couldn't walk to use loo. Thank god her family were with her. 1/3

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The NHS and social care are - right now - broken. Not breaking, broken. Tens of thousands of people who are experiencing this first hand will not forget. Nor will their family, friends or friends of friends. It's horrific. Govt & NHSE are foolsto pretend it's not happening. 3/3

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But I don't think this decline in cases will last that long. New subvariants CH.1.1 (now almost 25% of sequenced cases) is growing and XBB.1.5 (4%) is growing even faster. ONS sequence data consistent with COG. Will like accelerate infections again later this month. 9/9

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EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak is poised to announce minimum strike legislation as soon as tomorrow It will enable employers to sue unions and sack employees if they refuse to accept Hearing six sectors covered - NHS, schools, rail, borders, fire, nuclear https://thetimes.co.uk/article/69f2c02c-8c77-11ed-b24e-c1aaebfbdb8d?shareToken=da488f5271005a8f26a56fd1fa36dcb6

DJ...Why do people accept this ? Also here in NL we are moving towards a crisis ...politics stop reporting statistics as an answer...

[url]https://www.independentsage.org/statement-on-covid-19-management-in-light-of-pandemic-increase-in-china/[/url] or https://www.independentsage.org/statement-on-covid-19-management-in-light-of-pandemic-increase-in-china/ ;

The UK Government introduced two precautionary measures in early January 2023, in response to the step-change observed in the Chinese epidemic. First, people travelling directly from China will be required to show a negative test result before boarding their flight. Second, a sample of travellers from China will be tested on entry to the UK and any SARS-CoV-2 lineages will be genetically sequenced to identify new variants. However, passengers arriving and testing positive will not be obliged to self-isolate.

Independent SAGE has the following comments on this approach:

  1. Requiring negative COVID-19 tests on direct entry from China is unlikely to make any material difference to the number of cases in the UK. This is because the UK is doing little to control transmission internally, and large numbers of infections presumably arrive from other countries (and equally, spread from the UK to other countries). When attempted in the past, even with a much wider range of countries, this policy has not been effective in keeping prevalence low – this has only worked when implemented as part of a comprehensive quarantine policy.
  2. Testing and genetic sequencing of a proportion of international arrivals makes sense, but only if carried out regardless of the origin of travellers and not just China. Genetic surveillance and the sharing of SARS-CoV2 sequence data varies considerably between countries, with China currently being one providing the least data. Variants can arise anywhere, including the UK.
  3. Surveillance and identification of new variants is helpful only to the extent that action is taken to reduce ensuing transmission within countries where they are introduced.

From the UK perspective, the NHS is already under unprecedented systemic pressure, exacerbated by both COVID and other winter viruses including resurgent influenza virus.  XBB.1.5 is one of the most immune-evasive SARS-CoV-2 variants to date. It also appears to be more transmissible. These features help explain why XBB.1.5 is currently outcompeting other variants such as the BQ lineages in the US, and may also be why it appears to be associated with higher hospitalisation rates.

Thus, we urgently need the multi-layered approach (a.k.a. “Vaccines Plus”) as called for by the Scientific Advisory Group in Emergences (SAGE) in their paper published in 2021: “Sustaining behaviours to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission” and the associated journal article “Staying ‘COVID-safe’: Proposals for embedding behaviours that protect against COVID-19 transmission in the UK” 

Immediate steps, as called for by Independent SAGE in its final report of 2022, are:

  1. If you haven’t done so already, get vaccinated and/or get a booster without delay. If eligible for the Flu vaccine, ensure you and/or your children have this as well. This vaccine is also available to purchase (anyone over the age of 12) for those able to afford to do so.
  2. If you feel unwell, or have been in close contact with someone who is (or has tested positive for COVID), don’t go out and risk infecting others – whether with SARS-CoV2, influenza or anything else.
  3. Before visiting others, especially anyone elderly or otherwise vulnerable, take a COVID test if you can.
  4. When you meet others, make sure the setting is as well-ventilated as possible.
  5. Where possible, wear a mask in crowded indoor situations, especially where air quality may be poor (e.g. public transport)

These immediate measures need to be combined in the longer term with Government investment to make public spaces (social, educational and workplace) safe through ventilation and air filtration, providing free tests and masks for those unable to afford them, and an effective public communication campaign about the symptoms associated with current variants. These are critical steps needed to reduce the likelihood of people transmitting SARS-CoV2, becoming seriously ill and/or dying from COVID-19. Finally, many, even without severe infections, may suffer long-term health problems due to long COVID.

DJ Excess deaths numbers may be extreme...Genocide-by-pandemic conservative politics...Criminals in power "best prepared for pandemics"US-UK-NL" does get a different meaning...

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DJ, You have to be blind-like "dr.john campbell' to NOT see the healthcrisis (dr.j.c. mis interpreting statistics... ONS end of december cases increase... ZOE symptomatic cases go down...well they are...early january...they went up end of december...etc). 








Read this report on the UK crisis situation given by an Accident and Emergency (A&E) consultant

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Views from doctors working in the #NHSOnLifeSupport πŸ©Ί  Patients being cared for on floors. The elderly dying with the best dignity staff can provide them.. whilst waiting in the back of an ambulance for a hospital bed. Tears flow freely from staff. Shared w/ permission

link [url]https://twitter.com/EmergencyMedDr/status/1610161423833001985/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/EmergencyMedDr/status/1610161423833001985/photo/1 


Views from doctors working in the #NHSOnLifeSupport πŸ©Ί  Imagine arriving breathless to A&E via a GP’s car due to their fear that waiting for an overrun ambulance service may cost your life & there’s no cubicle or portable oxygen? And imagine the helplessness the A&E dr feels..

link [url]https://twitter.com/EmergencyMedDr/status/1609979130749255681/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/EmergencyMedDr/status/1609979130749255681/photo/1 

HCW-ers trying to arrange patients do not have to die in corridors...GP's trying to bring patients in to learn hospitals out of oxygen....








XBB.1.5% in the UK at 10%..

and increasing....








ONS deaths data has been released for week ending 30 Dec. 1,563 more deaths were recorded in-week compared to the 2015-19 average. That’s 20% more. Bank holidays make this week harder to interpret. Year-to-date there have been 576,896 deaths recorded, 8% more than 2015-19 avg.

Here in NL [url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/10/inflation-netherlands-10-2022[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/10/inflation-netherlands-10-2022

The cost of living in the Netherlands was, on average, 10 percent higher in 2022 than a year earlier. In 2021, inflation was still 2.7 percent. The price increases last year were the highest since 1975, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported. In that year, consumer products were, on average, 10.2 percent more expensive than the year before.

most Health Care Workers get more poor by the day...Average statistics are misleading. Low income groups-most public sector workers-spent more on food, energy, housing...

Prem Sikka

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Health Secretary Steve Barclay says NHS staff have to work harder to ‘justify’ more pay. Tories clapped NHS staff during the pandemic, now accuses them of not working hard enough. Has he visited a hospital lately? Forgot .... Tories don't use/like the NHS. https://independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-strikes-pay-steve-barclay-b2258719.html

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wow- there's no incentive at all for HCWs to stay in this broken system, and the Tories are doing nothing to retain staff who are already stretched and exhausted. The result will be an exodus of staff to countries where they're valued, early retirement & further burnout.

DJ "privatize everything" insanity goes on....

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Don't really know what to say. Category 2 ambulance calls include those for suspected heart attacks and strokes. The mean response time in December was 1 hour 32 minutes across England; 2 hours 39 in the South West. The target is 18 minutes.

link [url]https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1613463576034906112/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1613463576034906112/photo/1 








Are A&E pressures really leading to hundreds of additional deaths each week?  and colleagues  crunch the numbers and conclude that a significant number of patients could be dying because of long delays accessing emergency care.

link [url]https://covidactuaries.org/2023/01/11/are-nhs-waiting-timescontributing-to-excess-deaths/[/url] or https://covidactuaries.org/2023/01/11/are-nhs-waiting-timescontributing-to-excess-deaths/

Conclusion 

Our analysis suggests that a significant number of patients could be dying because of long delays accessing emergency care. We estimate this number at over 400 deaths each week between September and November, though it might be higher. The measure we have used is 30-day mortality, so not all of these deaths occur within A&E, or even within the hospital setting.  

There have always been some long delays in A&E departments, particularly during the winter months. However, delays have grown considerably longer since the summer of 2021. This suggests that more additional deaths from long delays might be occurring than was the case pre-pandemic. So this issue is likely to be contributing to observed excess deaths. Depending on the reference period used for comparison, additional delays in A&E may be associated with between 200 and 340 excess deaths each week. Further research that provides estimates at regional and more local level would provide further insights.

This blog has been republished with permission from LCP Viewpoint.

You can hear Stuart discuss this work with Tim Harford on BBC More or Less.

Update

December data has now been published and, as anticipated, shows longer waiting times than in September to November. Using the “trolley waits” approach above results in approximately 2,200 additional deaths in December, or 500 each week. Again, no account has been taken of the waiting time before the decision to admit and we have not allowed for extra harm arising when dates are more than twelve hours.

DJ...."genocide by pandemic-policy"......

A UKHSA scientist unaware of the risk-benefit analysis of vaccines in under 12s misinforming the public. She's also unaware that COVID is the *leading infectious cause of death* in children- e.g. COVID caused more deaths in the US annually than even measles did before vaccination

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My children are on school council. Yesterday, one of the ideas the teacher raised with the student leaders is using "positive peer pressure" to encourage sick children to attend school. The entire health and social care system in our area has declared a "critical incident"

DJ...one can have some questions on safety/effectiveness of vaccines without "promoting natural immunity"....








I find it odd that those calling for vaccines to be ‘pulled’ rarely talk about the harm from COVID infection, long covid, the high rate of vascular events post covid (proven from a time before vaccines were available) and the fact infection has killed millions across the world.

DJ...COrona VIral Disease (COVID) is the bigger danger...those discussing vaccines often also oppose masks, NPI...

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DJ, 

Again-I disagree with the words TMN uses [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-more-brits-dying-in-ongoing-silent-uk-covid-19-crisis,-mortuaries-now-overflowing-with-carcasses-while-hospitals-are-collapsing[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-more-brits-dying-in-ongoing-silent-uk-covid-19-crisis,-mortuaries-now-overflowing-with-carcasses-while-hospitals-are-collapsing 

and [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-excess-deaths-rising-exponentially-in-the-united-kingdom-with-covid-19-being-a-major-contributing-factor[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-excess-deaths-rising-exponentially-in-the-united-kingdom-with-covid-19-being-a-major-contributing-factor 

But it is beyond bizarre the US "is warning the world on China" while very likely in a much crisis in the UK itself.....TMN has lots of links to other articles....a.o. [url]https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21014603/dead-bodies-make-shift-morgues/[/url] or https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21014603/dead-bodies-make-shift-morgues/ ;

Hospital vehicles were seen delivering and collecting the dead from the nearest hospital, which is a 15-minute drive away in Salisbury, Wilts.

Two other units have been set up at Royal Liverpool Hospital.

Temporary morgues — typically inside 40ft shipping containers and each holding about 35 bodies — were last seen during the height of the pandemic, when there were at least 1,000 deaths a day.

Although not at that rate, bleak figures showed Christmas week was the deadliest in England and Wales for almost two years.

There were more than 1,600 deaths above the norm as the cold weathersurging flu infections and long waits for ambulances and in A&E combined to raise mortality rates by a fifth.

It was the third week running when there were more than 1,000 excess deaths in England and Wales.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine claimed the spike in deaths was undoubtedly linked to record delays for urgent care.

It said: “If you can’t get an ambulance to someone who’s having a heart attack or a stroke, then some of those patients may die as a result.”

UK: Dead bodies being stored in makeshift morgues at UK gritting yards

link [url]https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bodies-being-stored-makeshift-morgues-28939174[/url] or https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bodies-being-stored-makeshift-morgues-28939174 

Another UK news item [url]https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21024779/strep-a-england-update-total-deaths/[/url] or https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21024779/strep-a-england-update-total-deaths/

ANOTHER child has been killed by Strep A in England as the country's total number of deaths reaches 35.

Fresh figures released today by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) showed the tragic toll had climbed by one.

DJ...Is the UK doing that much worse then other countries ? Maybe in spending on public health it is. UK conservatives "hate everything public"-want to privatize everything out of an insane ideology....








A new parliamentary report shows that the amount of tax owed but that went unpaid last year was £42 BILLION A pay rise in line with inflation for all public sector workers would cost about £12bn. Remember that when the Tories claim we can't afford a proper pay rise for workers.

UK "conservative criminals" rather decrease tax for the rich then invest in basic public healthcare...genocide by pandemic may not be the UK.gov "active choice" however it is the outcome of a choice not to tax the rich....








Tonight's report from Bolton by Hugh l (plus  on pay/staff) is an utter political disaster for the govt. Feels like the NHS in England is going to have to go into emergency mode, cancelling elective treatment to cope with this winter's Covid/flu.

DJ...the UK.gov claim is "the CoViD pandemic is over" even with record excess deaths, hospitals beyond breaking point....I am NOT an expert; most European countries seem to do better then the UK because they have better public healthcare...not less flu/CoViD etc....

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein
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