According to an article in today’s Guardian, by a respiratory doctor who prefers to remain anonymous, “in hospital Covid-19 has largely become a disease of the unvaccinated”. He (or she) cites people who reckoned they were too healthy to catch covid, or who wanted more evidence of the vaccine’s efficacy, or who hadn’t yet got round to making an appointment, plus one or two who believed the more outrageous conspiracy theories. These are the people who are now in the intensive care units.
The doctor admits to feeling frustrated. “I am now beaten back, exhausted, worn down by the continuous stream of people that we battle to treat when they have consciously passed up the opportunity to save themselves”. The best way for the rest of us to help ourselves, the people around us, and the over-burdened NHS, is just to get the jab.
Licenced today: a detail of the Anglo-Saxon cross in Ruthwell Kirk, Dumfries & Galloway…
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