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Letters UK’s covid-19 health crisis

Improve care pathways for covid now to do better when the next variant or pandemic hits

BMJ 2021; 374 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2138 (Published 01 September 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;374:n2138
  1. Daniel K Goyal, consultant physician
  1. Lorn and Islands Hospital, Oban, UK
  1. daniel.goyal@nhs.scot

How did we let it get to this stage? Abbasi asks.1 The answers are not forthcoming. A brash and, despite its numerous failures, emboldened government finally get the release it needs: attempted herd immunity.

Like most “calculated” decisions made by our political elite, the unilateral costs of lives saved versus economic wellbeing falter in the face of reality. Beyond what …

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