| Comment | I was talking to an A&E doc today.
She saying it's worst now, because in say March 2020, you had this drop-off where they saw very few strokes, angina etc. (which is actually bad news; you want them to appear), but also very little in the way of basically 'daily daft shit' like falling off a ladder, rolling down a hill etc. So to some extent they were, relatively speaking, twiddling their thumbs just a touch.
Whereas now that the cases are back to that level, people are presenting with heart attacks as per pre-COVID, but folk don't have that 'stay at home, protect the NHS' thing and so A&E is back to seeing stupid accidents, car crashes etc. Plus the staff are fucking knackered, which she says has a real, measurable effect. Folk can say it's a scare story all they want, she's seen folk wait 24+ hours for an ICU bed in the last month, with her own eyes.
I mind in lockdown #1, our baby was born in early/mid-April so literally the peak. The roads were dead as a doornail, and the hospital car-park was apparently relatively empty. Good luck with that tomorrow. |
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