Senior Devon doctor predicts coronavirus tidal wave heading our way
RD&E medical director Dr Adrian Harris says: We will be hanging on by our fingernails
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A senior doctor at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has warned that the South West faces absolute crisis due to coronavirus in the coming weeks.
Warns of “inexorably” rising numbers of covid-19 inpatients at neighbouring trust
Hospital chiefs in the South West have warned the region will not avoid the extreme pressures felt by other parts of the NHS amid rapidly rising numbers of covid-19 inpatients.
The region was the least affected area of England during the pandemic’s first wave, but the medical director of two acute trusts yesterday predicted a “tidal wave” of covid-19 coming to the West Country.
Adrian Harris, medical director at Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare Trust, said the region faced an “absolute crisis” and individual trusts would be “hanging on by their fingernails”.
Covid-19 death reported at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth
Six deaths were reported today across Devon and Cornwall
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The Covid-19 vaccine is delivered to North Devon Leisure Centre in Barnstaple
- Credit: Simon Ellery
The first people in North Devon began receiving their covid-19 vaccinations today (Tuesday, December 29) at two Barnstaple locations.
A mass vaccination centre has opened at North Devon Leisure Centre, while vulnerable patients attending North Devon District Hospital will also be offered the vaccine.
North Devon Leisure Centre in Barnstaple set out ready to receive the first patients to be given the Covid-19 vaccine
- Credit: Simon Ellery
The hospital will see patients aged 80 and above who are already attending hospital as an outpatient among those offered the vaccine and any appointments not used for priority groups will be used for healthcare workers who are at highest risk of serious illness from Covid.