Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19 report released a few minutes ago

You can read it here if you are interested.

https://assets.publishing.service.g...hment_data/file/889195/disparities_review.pdf

 

Cheers

 

The one I took particular interest in. Due to incompetence that defies belief. Was care homes. 2.3 x the expected rate of deaths. The highest but yet most obvious failing.

 

45% of deaths amongst Black people also record diabetes being present as co-morbidity.

That is strikingly high!

 

Better get them chicken shops shut then...

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...m-killer-one-size-fits-lockdown-come-end.html

The stats on Covid are really clear in if you're healthy and under 60 you would have to be very unlucky to die from it. Tens of thousands of lives have sadly been lost but the lockdown has put millions of other lives at risk through hospital appointments being cancelled.

 

How about the high number of people who contract Covid in hospital? (We all know hospitals are a perfect breeding ground for infections).
How many of those missed procedures have literally saved lives?

 

I reckon those in need of a hip/knee op, with blood in their passage, who have found a lump etc would have rather took the risk and be seen sooner instead of risking their situation getting much worse.

 

I reckon if I needed a knee replacement I’d likely have several high risk factors and I’d rather stay at home on the ibuprofen, than go into the riskiest environment possible.

if I had blood in my poo I also think I’d likely have had discussions with professionals that would have informed a sensible decision.

I believe that whilst the NHS has shifted a massive resource, it hasn’t ceased doing all other work. But what do I know?

 

8 million people are expected to be on the waiting list for hospital care. The next five years or so is going to be horrible as I can't see anything but a rise in deaths from every single vital organ. Whatever the 5 years average is for deaths due to cancer, liver issues, lung problems etc I expect in 2025 every figure will be higher than it currently is from putting off vital life saving treatment.

 

Come on though, you can’t seriously be arguing that the provision of non Covid services has been satisfactory and consequence-free - if so then we’ve been spending billions on needless services for the past few years.

 

I’m not arguing that.

I’m saying there’s 2 sides to this and the side often ignored when people are ‘making a point’ about all the growing queues is that hospital isn’t a great place for sick people to be right now.

That’s a reasonable view and I’m sorry if it doesn’t translate into the kind of binary argument the internet thrives on.

 

I’m not pretending the situation is perfect but nor is it binary - see above.

 

Wow, what a lovely individual you are.

 

It would be a great place to be if the nightingale hospitals we spend crazy money on were used.

Hospitals wouldn't be breeding grounds for covid-19 if covid-19 patients were in the hospitals built for covid-19 treatment instead of scattered around barnsley hospital.

 

Link isn't working.

 

Try this:

https://assets.publishing.service.g...hment_data/file/889861/disparities_review.pdf

 

It's hard not to read that and conclude that covid_19 absolutely does discriminate, and question why on earth the government are not doing more to target the protection of at risk groups

 

That’s great in theory; only 2 issues:
1 it relies on 100% accurate triage to keep all Covid patients out of the non Nightingale hospitals. You can’t open hospitals up to the most vulnerable patients whilst there’s any chance they’re in danger.

2 it assumes that we could feasibly staff the Nightingales, we managed to build them miraculously but inventing thousands of nurses and doctors wasn’t so easy.

 

Yes that's as I understand it that there aren't enough nurses and doctors. Makes the building of them completely pointless