• Military deployed at London hospitals due to Omicron staff shortages

    From slider@1:229/2 to All on Friday, January 07, 2022 07:42:30
    From: slider@anashram.com

    The armed forces are being deployed to help hospitals in London deal with
    a surge in Covid patients because the Omicron variant is leaving so many
    staff sick and unable to work.

    Of the 200 military personnel involved, 40 are doctors who will help NHS
    staff look after patients. The other 160 personnel, who have no medical training, will check in patients, ensure stocks are maintained and would
    also be “conducting basic checks”, the Ministry of Defence said.

    Some have already started work and they are expected to support the NHS in
    the capital until the end of the month.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/07/military-deployed-at-london-hospitals-due-to-omicron-staff-shortages

    The announcement comes two days after Boris Johnson said he hopes England
    can “ride out” the current wave of Covid-19 without further restrictions, but did acknowledge parts of the NHS would feel “temporarily overwhelmed” by Omicron.

    Health union leaders, although grateful for the help, have said this
    latest move means the government can no longer be “dismissive” of concerns about “delivering safe care”.

    Thousands of NHS staff have been off work each week in London, which last
    month became the first part of the country to see a huge wave of Covid
    cases caused by the new strain, leaving hospitals struggling to cope with unprecedented levels of staff absence.

    Chris Hopson, the chief executive of hospitals group NHS Providers,
    welcomed the assistance from personnel from what is thought to be all
    three armed forces. But he said that their arrival underlined the extent
    of NHS understaffing.

    “Trust leaders will welcome the support of colleagues from the armed
    forces during what continues to be an incredibly challenging time for the
    NHS in London.

    “The fact that we need to call upon army medics and general duty personnel
    at all underlines the sheer scale of the workforce challenges the NHS is facing.

    ### - not to mention the various OTHER essential services that are ALL now coming under very similar pressure from increasing staff shortages in
    every sector across the board!

    the question being: who's gonna step-in to support the military when THEY
    start getting sick/over-stretched too??

    plus if reinfection/breakthrough-cases becomes a thing, the military
    presence could even become a permanent feature! (there'll be martial law imposed eventually if everything breaks down enough i mean, albeit that's
    the worst case scenario)

    'unknown' numbers of daily infections currently mounting here massively
    due to a sudden LACK of flow-tests?? (but then i suppose that's ONE way of massaging the data to look lower hah!)

    anything could happen here in the next 2 weeks, we're moving into new territory...

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  • From marika@1:229/2 to slider on Saturday, January 08, 2022 19:02:17
    From: marika5000@gmail.com

    On Friday, January 7, 2022 at 1:42:37 AM UTC-6, slider wrote:
    The armed forces are being deployed to help hospitals in London deal with
    a surge in Covid patients because the Omicron variant is leaving so many staff sick and unable to work.

    Of the 200 military personnel involved, 40 are doctors who will help NHS staff look after patients. The other 160 personnel, who have no medical training, will check in patients, ensure stocks are maintained and would also be “conducting basic checks”, the Ministry of Defence said.

    Some have already started work and they are expected to support the NHS in the capital until the end of the month.

    Why not sent them all at once

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    NHS doctor tells Health Secretary he won't get jabbed https://youtu.be/hOlEYcd1nyI

    "I Do Not Want To Have A Vaccination": NHS Doctor Tells UK Health Secretary On Camera
    Sunday, Jan 09, 2022 - 09:20 AM

    Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

    An NHS doctor told Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Friday that he’s not happy with the government’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate for health workers that is due to take effect in April.
    Health Secretary Sajid Javid (R) talks to consultant Steve James during a visit to Kings College Hospital in London on Jan. 7, 2022. (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

    The vaccination mandate has already come into effect for care home staff, volunteers, and visitors from Nov. 11. Parliament approved the mandate for frontline NHS workers on Dec. 14.

    Steve James, a consultant anesthetist at the King’s College Hospital, told Javid that he doesn’t believe the science for mandating the vaccines is “strong enough” and the government should at least consider the nuance that some doctors have had
    antibodies through previous exposure to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—the virus that causes COVID-19.

    “I’m not happy about that,” James told the health secretary after he asked an intensive care unit (ICU) their thoughts about the new rule to require CCP virus vaccination for NHS staff.

    The unvaccinated doctor said he had had COVID-19 and had been working in COVID-19 ICU since the beginning of the pandemic.

    “I’ve not had a vaccination. I do not want to have a vaccination,” James said, adding that one of his colleagues was in the same situation.

    “The vaccines are reducing transmission only for eight weeks for [the] Delta [variant of the CCP virus]. With Omicron, it’s probably less. For that, I will be dismissed if I don’t have a vaccine? The science isn’t strong enough,” he told Javid.

    The health secretary said he respects James’s view, adding, “but there’re also many different views.”

    “Obviously, we have to weigh all that up—for both health and social care—and there will always be a debate about it,” Javid said.

    James suggested Javid should reconsider the mandate, considering “Omicron and the changing picture,” or at least the “nuance” that doctors who had previous infections can be exempt because the “protection I’ve got from transmission is
    probably equivalent to someone who’s vaccinated.”

    When Javid said his immunity “at some point … will wane as well,” James suggested that to maintain a high level of protection against transmission, every staff member would have to get a booster dose “every single month.”

    Javid said the ministers “take the very best advice that we can from people that are vaccine experts.”

    A new study published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that CCP virus vaccination was associated with a smaller reduction in transmission of the delta variant than of the alpha variant, and the effects of vaccination
    decreased over time.

    Analysing real-world data from England between Jan. 2 and Aug. 2, 2021, the government-funded study suggested that Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine reduced the transmission of Delta by 50 percent two weeks after the second dose, but the reduction shrunk
    to 24 percent 10 weeks later. The Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine only offered a 24 percent reduction in transmission after two weeks and 2 percent after 12 weeks.

    The government previously stated that the reasons for making CCP virus vaccination a condition of deployment in the health and wider social care sector are to “protect them and to reduce transmission within health and social care premises, contribute
    to the protection of individuals who may have a suboptimal response to their own immunisations, [and to] avoid disruption to services that provide their care.”

    However, with Omicron’s increased ability to evade immunity, the UK is experiencing a record-high number of cases despite the country’s high vaccination rate, with troops deployed to assist hospitals amid staff shortages.

    On Friday, Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said the main aim of the UK’s vaccination programme remains the prevention of severe disease and that “protection against mild or asymptomatic infection with existing vaccine products would
    require regular (perhaps as frequent as 3 monthly) booster vaccinations which is not considered a sustainable long-term strategy.”

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