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It's an organisation that has been underfunded for a decade and it isn't as attractive to come and work for if you live abroad anymore. Throw in getting rid of bursaries for Nurses and it isn't a great shock it was underprepared for this crises.

Sounds like smaller versions are being moved into the car parks of hospitals.

Must confess I thought the one organisation who are fairly blameless in all this are the NHS but that's me.

I don't actually read either unless I succumb to clicking on a link here and frankly I don't think it is holding me back in life.

I find the whole thing a bit tedious. It would seem that the government in England have got it about right this time, although no room for complacency, etc. , but instead of thinking job done some people want to spend all day discrediting the data. For one thing we don't know if the data the...

But once they are identified as having Covid they are treated differently. As said previously the fact no one anywhere near the decisions making process in England, or indeed the opposition, is suggesting a lockdown anytime soon indicates they are interpreting the numbers just fine.

That's the way the stats are collected and has been for a while now. It gives us a relative figure to, for example, what the position was this time last year. The fact that no one is seriously suggesting a further lockdown in England suggest they are interpreting the stats absolutely fine...

Again, if someone is asymptomatic and is only tested in hospital or gets Covid in hospital it is still a problem as they will have to be treated differently in hospital and can still infect other people, including hospital staff. They are still very much part of the total infected people...

The simple facts of the matter are if you are vaccinated you are less likely to get Covid and if you do get it less likely to need treatment in hospital. Anyone who can get a vaccine who hasn't is frankly riding on the back of the coat tails of people who have got it because if everyone didn't...

Certainly interesting. On the back of this post I looked up HIV rates in South Africa and apparently it is 13% amongst all South Africans and 19% amongst 15-49s. In 2017 a quarter of all deaths in South Africa were attributable to AIDS (for comparison it is 0.16% in the UK) All the more...

If people are catching it in hospital then they are still catching it and can still go on to infect others.

Premier League footballers are all young, fit and are unlikely to have any undiagnosed issues as they keep on having medicals so are at a low risk of getting a serious case of Covid. However with the fitness levels required in top flight football a case of long Covid could keep them out of a...

So not only have you not quit NSC you get right back on the horse and start getting involved in discussions about vaccines again?

Nothing like a picture of Bill Gates with a politician to try and trigger a few conspiracy theorists. We see you.

New Covid-19 vaccination centre opens in Worthing

While I personally think a lockdown is OTT - restricting large public gatherings especially indoors for a while might be in order however - it does seem to be the destination the government is slowly heading to. Devil is in the detail but in some respects doing it after Christmas is the worst...

I am not sure experts modelling the worst case scenario to inform planning is quite the gotcha people are making out. It's up to the decision makers to ask questions about the data and take it from there. I also think you might be overestimating the current government. They have on several...

I have never tested positive for it but before the first lockdown I was working in Central London and caught something that had a lot of the same symptoms as the original Covid - sore throat, temperature and aches and pains but no headache or runny nose - but it only lasted for three days and I...

Can't read that as it is behind a paywall but if we avoid a lockdown it is a victory for the vaccine programme.

Thing is I am not entirely anti a 1730 Saturday kick off a couple of times a season as in winter it can be quite a good atmosphere under the lights but you can still get home quite early (or down the pub depending on personal preference/circumstances) but it seems to be the default this season.