‘I was an infectious disease nurse, I’ve never seen a crisis like the quad-demic’
‘I was an infectious disease nurse, I’ve never seen a crisis like the quad-emic’
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‘I was an infectious disease nurse, I’ve never seen a crisis like the quad-demic’
‘I was an infectious disease nurse, I’ve never seen a crisis like the quad-emic’
by pppppppppppppppppd
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Four for one? Sounds like a bargin to me.
Is this Starmer’s fault too?
Would never have happened under the Tories… oh no.
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How strange. Covid last peaked in October and has fallen ever since, now at lowest levels since at least 2023. Influenza peaked over Xmas and is now down to pre-Xmas levels. RSV peaked in late November and has fallen rapidly since then.
The weird emphasis on airborne norovirus adds to the impression of scaremongering. It can be contracted from aerosolised vomit but the standard advice is that this is far from being the main transmission route, and hand washing is the most important preventative measure, in contrast to what the nurse quoted says
> Four winter bugs are circulating in the UK in what has been dubbed the “quad-demic” with escalating cases of flu, Covid, norovirus and the cold-like respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) battering NHS hospitals.
Dr Curran added: “When you have so many infections coming in through hospital doors, what you would normally do to contain infections is to shut that bay and shut that ward.
“But when you have got 12 ambulances lined up outside A&E and are desperate to place patients in beds, you are going to use beds wherever you can and put patients anywhere.
Sounds serious to me. Bad flu years, not good. COVID explains itself. Norovirus, chucking and diarrhoea together, bad. Then let’s add RSV, mainly children.
Not at all good to see all four.
Give two of them to an elderly or immunocompromised patient and they’re going to die.
Chiming in to say that I still have PTSD from the norovirus I got years ago. It was truly awful!
Please dear God
save the NHS from profiteering assholes
I work in the NHS, and my staff are constantly going off sick with noro 🙁 it’s a v v bad year for it.
What’s interesting though, is we never really tested adults for RSV until recently, so that may account for cases looking higher. Definitely more flu around this year too.
If the pandemic taught me anything it’s that there’s no level of the NHS collapsing that justifies not living your life and there’s no point on earth that the NHS won’t be complaining. Ignore, move on.
What is with all the links to paywalled sources lately?!
Well let’s hope that we don’t get two more winter bugs, otherwise we’d end up with a sex-demic..
Looks like this nurse doesn’t have much experience or missed COVID somehow… Or it’s not a nurse at all, just some AI mumbo jumbo.
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