sat on the pavement next to a&e. and one of the challenges with that is the number of people waiting in hospital to be discharged. there are a number of reasons for that, one of them is social care. the government said they will give £8 billion and more recently, another 500 million that should deliver 200,000 more care packages. as i understand it there are 12,000 people waiting for those at the moment. that should theoretically help to ease that backlog. changes in pharmacy, you have heard of the virtual votes, we have heard of the virtual votes, we have done this in paediatrics where i work, but making sure it can be used to its full capacity everywhere and people needing daily antibiotics can go home and come back for the dose or receive them from community nurses. the monitoring that may have been done in hospital doesn t really need to be, gets done at home to
this is a three act play. in the early days, the first few weeks of march 2020, there was real panic inside the hospital and there were no tests. in the first week of march, only 30 people in all of new york had been tested. one doctor who is one of america s greatest experts on bacteria and epidemiology went on the squawk box and said, i ve just come from the emergency room at my hospital and we have no tests. it was like a call to action. that afternoon he was shut down by the hospital and threatened with having one of his titles taken away. of course, the doctors are working on the medical school side and the hospital doesn t really have power over them, but there was constant dissonance between what the doctors would be allowed to say to alert the public and what the hospital felt could either harm the brand or as the classic trump
looked more carefully at the evidence and thinks more carefully about evidence and thinks more carefully about where will this end? if the vaccines about where will this end? if the vaccines are not working, and there is no vaccines are not working, and there is no indication that the vaccines aren t is no indication that the vaccines aren t protecting against serious illness aren t protecting against serious illness and death, you may still catch it illness and death, you may still catch it. many people will be asymptomatically stop but so far, the evidence is your vaccination doesn t the evidence is your vaccination doesn t stop you going in the hospital doesn t stop you going in the hospital or from dying. again, that s hospital or from dying. again, that s borne out so far. it s early days, that s borne out so far. it s early days, but that s borne out so far. it s early days, but there is a fundamental point days, but there is a fundamental point of days, but th
health care workers getting vaccinated also. we ve learned something here. just because you work in the hospital doesn t mean your not susceptible to misinformation or disinformation and being vaccine hesitant. you have a 33-member federal disaster medical assistance team on site to help our lady of the lake, a baton rouge hospital. how bad well, not how bad. how worried are you about capacity considerations in the hospitals? well, we re extremely worried. and it s not so much a bed capacity. we have ppe and we have ventilators, unlike a year and a half ago. what we don t have is enough staff. we re short nurses in louisiana, period, for example. and right now, you know, we have nurses that are out because they too have contracted covid and other staff members out, maybe respiratory therapists and so forth. this is really causing a tremendous problem across our state.
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