I'm not arguing for one second that building capacity was a bad move, but that it's vitally important that any idea of future lockdowns realise that the broader cost is potentially much higher than the covid benefit.
Let's hope so.
This report is frightening in terms of numbers suggested could die of lockdown related causes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8785415/Just-1-800-110-000-occupied-hospital-beds-currently-taken-Covid-19-patients.html
In the UK we didn’t even get close to using the covid dedicated hospital capacity during our peak and all other parts of our hospitals were widely acknowledged as being deserted.
I still don’t see what’s that hopeful for the 8600 undiagnosed women when it is widely known that the earlier the cancer is detected the higher the survival rate in the above two statements.
At the end of the day I thought this was a Covid forum and I’ve posted a factual story of a negative...
Breast Cancer Now have said it has grave concerns that so many women are in diagnosed. I’m not sure I see the hopeful side of the story.
The purpose of the posts are to evidence that there are significant downsides (health and social) coming from the measures that have been in place that will...
What a shocking statistic. It is estimated that around 8,600 women are living with undetected breast cancer in the UK after screening services were paused. Sobering to start to see the potential death debt of cancers and other illnesses that are coming our way in future because of the Covid...