Hospitals may be forced to move Covid patients elsewhere

Oct 31, 2020

If hospitals begin to transfer patients it will be the first time since the principle of mutual aid was invoked during the peak of the pandemic, when a small number of people were moved to other intensive care units. By Saturday there were 10,918 people in hospital...

Traumatised intensive care nurses ‘sectioned’ in wake of first wave

Oct 31, 2020

In April, three front line staff were pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads and feet due to a shortage of PPE, with others reportedly forced to share or buy their own. “They were concerned that they were going to pass the virus on to their...

The anti-lockdown arguments have failed. Where next for its opponents?

Oct 31, 2020

There are two possible answers. The less convincing is the one used to justify the first lockdown, namely flattening the curve. If hospital capacity is still our chief concern, we need to ask hard questions about SAGE and its strategy. How did it make sense to push...

Test and Trace app’s ‘delete my data’ button undermines its effectiveness, claim top scientists

Oct 31, 2020

Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in health protection at the University of East Anglia who has previously advised the World Health Organisation, said the app could be an effective tool in keeping down infection rates if people followed the self-isolate advice....