If you would like John’s text books, (free to download the PDFs)
Link to free download of my 2 textbooks
http://159.69.48.3/
Physiology book in hard copy
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154770452796?mkevt=1&mkcid=16&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
Pathophysiology book in hard copy
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154770451780?mkevt=1&mkcid=16&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
United States, I believe you may be misinterpreting the cause for the multitude of hospitalizations in the US.
There is an economic incentive, as hospitals are reimbursed for covid patients and not so for other illnesses.
Co-morbidity? – sure, but the incentive is to hospitalize and pray for covid to be present, or to hospitalize when marginally necessary to rake in the covid bounty.
400 million nonsurgical N95 masks
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/19/world/omicron-covid-vaccine-tests?campaign_id=185&emc=edit_yct_20220119&instance_id=50682&nl=coronavirus-tracker®i_id=110300449&segment_id=80092&te=1&user_id=0b87b8c1eea981ec0514047bbfa553ca#covid-biden-free-masks
Free of charge
Community health centers and pharmacies
N95 respirators, filter out 95 percent of airborne particles
Strategic National Stockpile, protecting against bioterror attacks, anthrax vaccine
Stockpile now 737 million N95 masks, domestic manufacturers
Free at home tests
https://www.covidtests.gov
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/us/politics/covid-tests-free-biden.html
Four test kits per household
Usually shipped in 7 to 12 days
The tests available for order
Are rapid antigen at-home tests, not PCR
Can be taken anywhere
Give results within 30 minutes (no lab drop-off required)
Work whether or not you have COVID-19 symptoms
Work whether or not you are up to date on your COVID-19 vaccines
Are also referred to as self-tests or over-the-counter (OTC) tests
Zoe data
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicron-falling-fast-but-new-uptick-detected-in-children
UK, R = 0.9
One in 27 people in the UK currently have symptomatic COVID
Symptoms (omicron times)
Back pain
GI symptoms, sickness, abdominal pain
Could be GI positive but respiratory negative?
Duration
Delta
7 days to recover
Omicron
5 days to recover
In just two weeks, the number of new cases per day has fallen around 31%
from its peak of over 211,000 to under 145,000
Uptick in symptomatic cases in children due to the back to school effect.
PM
Return to plan A, lifting plan B
As Covid becomes endemic, we will need to replace legal requirements with advice and guidance urging people with the virus to be careful and considerate of others
LFTs
400 million LFTs this month
Free tests planned to end in July
(Currently £30 per pack of 7)
Up to November 2021
691 million lateral flow tests distributed
96 million (14%) registered result with NHS
Today
Ending guidance on working from home
No masks in classrooms
Next Thursday
Mandatory certifications will end
Face masks not legally mandated
March 24th (if not before)
End legal requirement to self-isolate
PM
soon come a time when we can remove the legal requirement to self-isolate altogether
Mr. Javid
Omicron is in retreat
We have not reached the finish line
Milestone, not an end
But it’s not the end of the road and we shouldn’t see this as the finish line
because we cannot eradicate this virus and its future variants
Instead we must learn to live with Covid in the same way we have to live with flu
Help keep the virus at bay, isolate if positive
Gat Jabbed
Dr Richard Cree, an intensive care consultant, Middlesbrough
I am confident that the worst will soon be behind us
Far fewer patients are unwell like they were back then (April, 2020)
The Covid wards are no longer full of people struggling to breathe
The hospital is still finding it a challenge to cope with such a large number of patients
Social care staff shortages, clogged hospitals
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