Drareg
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Posting this here because it’s potentially relevant.
Businesses were shut because they are the biggest spreaders of covid 19, the below story tells use we should have shut hospitals!
"Almost two thirds of people who died or became severely ill from Covid in December may have caught the disease in hospital, a major study has found".
Over the entire study period, 30 per cent of coronavirus cases in which patients died, or spent time in critical care, were linked to a recent hospital visit, the study showed.
In the first wave it peaked at 46 per cent in May, however by December, it had risen to 64 per cent of cases as seen in the chart below. (Data from June 1 to Sep 30 are omitted because the numbers are small).
Professor Helen Colhoun, the lead author of the study, said it was crucial for government scientists to factor hospital acquired infections into modelling if they wanted to get a true picture of the pandemic.
“There’s this relentless focus on schools but if the models for the future ignore an important setting for transmission, that seems exceedingly odd to me,” she said.
“There’s been very little detailed discussion of hospital transmission by Sage (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies). And this route of transmission doesn’t even seem to be put in as a component of those models. Which I think is a testament to a lack of recognition of how important it is.
“Unless we have a really full appreciation of how much infection has occurred within hospital settings we will not be prepared for next winter or prepared properly for the future.
“Although hospital transmission may account for a fairly small number of overall cases, it accounts for a substantial number of cases in the vulnerable that lead to serious consequences. That’s what needs to be fully appreciated at a policy level.”
Businesses were shut because they are the biggest spreaders of covid 19, the below story tells use we should have shut hospitals!
"Almost two thirds of people who died or became severely ill from Covid in December may have caught the disease in hospital, a major study has found".
Over the entire study period, 30 per cent of coronavirus cases in which patients died, or spent time in critical care, were linked to a recent hospital visit, the study showed.
In the first wave it peaked at 46 per cent in May, however by December, it had risen to 64 per cent of cases as seen in the chart below. (Data from June 1 to Sep 30 are omitted because the numbers are small).
Professor Helen Colhoun, the lead author of the study, said it was crucial for government scientists to factor hospital acquired infections into modelling if they wanted to get a true picture of the pandemic.
“There’s this relentless focus on schools but if the models for the future ignore an important setting for transmission, that seems exceedingly odd to me,” she said.
“There’s been very little detailed discussion of hospital transmission by Sage (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies). And this route of transmission doesn’t even seem to be put in as a component of those models. Which I think is a testament to a lack of recognition of how important it is.
“Unless we have a really full appreciation of how much infection has occurred within hospital settings we will not be prepared for next winter or prepared properly for the future.
“Although hospital transmission may account for a fairly small number of overall cases, it accounts for a substantial number of cases in the vulnerable that lead to serious consequences. That’s what needs to be fully appreciated at a policy level.”
