Number of cases admitted to hospital with flu is 3716 per day of whom 267 are in critical care beds. The number of NHS staff off with Covid was 8029 per day (up 47%). Why was the government reluctant to impose restrictions on Chinese people travelling to the UK?
It seems that Covid is still lurking in the corner! Numbers round here are creeping up slowly (and I presume that reported numbers are less than half the reported totals. It would be easy for me to predict doom and gloom, and delete this post when it does not happen – so I will not.
I think that this country is fairly well immunised so vulnerable should be OK (I hope as I am probably one!). The young should have built up some immunity so we should be able to avoid lockdown. However those in middle age with no top up injections may suffer? I am thinking and hoping not hospitalisation, but serious enough to cause absence from work. The NHS is already on its knees due to government mismanagement, serious absenteeism could be devastating (and NO I do not want NHS staff to report for duty if Covid positive.