I know perfectly well Do you knkw they go on placements? So helping on wards etc Scrapping paying for a degree that benefits the whole country would see an increase in enrolment
I agree but you still can only have so many on a placement at once as they need mentoring. You can’t put too many unqualified nurses on a stretched ward. This is an obvious long term goal but won’t help this winter.
Since when did the burden fall on citizens to ‘protect the NHS’? We do our part by paying NI contributions. The government is responsible for funding it and managing it properly. If there’s not enough nurses because the wages are ****e, then that’s number 10’s problem, not ours. The shifting of blame onto ordinary citizens and this cringey ‘clap for the NHS’ bollocks makes me sick. Pay them a decent ****ing salary for the hard graft they do.
I'm a great supporter of vaccination and would strongly encourage anyone to make full use of the Covid vaccinations and boosters. However, there have to be some niggling concerns that may not be resolved for many years. Quite naturally we're all pleased that our chances of suffering very unpleasant infections requiring hospitalisation are reduced. However, the long term effects of even very mild or asymptomatic disease can be dire. For example, Human Papilloma Virus infections are often asymptomatic and were long considered to be insignificant. Then we discovered that certain strains of the virus (initially HPV 16 and HPV 18) were found to trigger squamous cell cancers 15 to 20 years after infection. As for the reliable prediction of long term abnormalities following the introduction of new drugs, genetic modelling has improved things. However, some disastrous conditions have taken even longer than thalidomide (recently still in use as the best treatment for leprosy) to turn up. In the 40s and 50s many American women were treated with Diethyl Stilboestrol (DES) - I think it was to limit morning sickness at the time. No obvious short term problems but then, 20 years later, their daughters started to present with particularly nasty vaginal cancers The moral of this is that we shouldn't ignore the potential long term effects of any mild or apparently insignificant infection and that adverse effects of new therapies can take a very long time to arise and may be difficult to link to historic treatments. All that said though, the low possibility of long term problems should generally be outweighed by the immediate benefits.
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TBF, I think it's sort of like a joint responsibility in situations like this. And it's not as simple as just throwing more money and people resources at it. As you say, it needs 'managing properly', something that clearly hasn't been happening for at least a coupe or more decades now. But I 100% agree with your comment about salary, and that of care workers and many others who look after us.
Yes it is .... as it will reduce absence, reduce transmission, help protect them and others. No, it's not 100% but it's far better than no vaccine. https://www.newscientist.com/articl...e-you-to-spread-covid-19-if-youre-vaccinated/
Omicron coronavirus cases have surged by as much as 400% in some parts of South Africa - although the country's health ministry has said there is mounting evidence the variant causes milder infection. South Africa reported more than 22,000 new infections on Thursday, a record during the fourth wave but still below the more than 26,000 daily cases seen during the peak of the Delta variant. Health Minister Joe Phaahla said Gauteng Province had seen a "very significant" increase in COVID-19 cases of "more than 400%" in the week of 4 December 2021 compared to the previous seven days - with hospital admissions up by 200%. He added the Omicron strain had fuelled the surge and said: "While there is an increasing rate of hospitalisations, it may be due to overall big numbers of infections. "It looks like it is purely because of the numbers rather than as a result of any severity of the variant itself." Of those admitted to hospital, 70% were unvaccinated - however, it is worth noting South Africa has a relatively low rate of vaccination, with just over 25% of the population fully jabbed. By comparison in the UK, 81% of adults have had both doses of a vaccine. Glenda Gray, president of the South African Medical Research Council, said: "We are seeing this vaccine is maintaining effectiveness. "It may be slightly reduced, but we are seeing effectiveness being maintained for hospital admissions and that is very encouraging." Young people in South Africa aged 18 to 35 have the lowest rate of vaccination in the country - with less than 30% having had jabs. "The young adults are not coming up in good numbers and we want to urge them to not listen to what they read on social media, all the anti-vax stories," said Mr Phaahla. He said figures showed that "those who are vaccinated are much better protected".
