Seems to me that the government and CMO have all but given up on the management of Covid, I expect that they are bored with the whole thing and are already dismantling systems which have helped including the ZOE app. However have just looked at the official website and cases in our area (rural) are up by 165%. Is this what living with Covid means - just let it rip? Living with a vulnerable person is really more of a responsibility than ever. Of course there's also long covid which is already blighting many lives. I did read that some schools are having to send whole year groups home because of infections, giving up testing making the situation worse.
www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/covid-schools-absence-send-year-groups-home-cases-spike
Feels like a dereliction of responsibility to me. Surely living with it doesn't mean doing nothing to abate infection? I know that Covid is not as severe as it was but currently over 12,000 people are in hospital with it. According to the NHS itself 'The majority of inpatients with Covid-19 are admitted as a result of the infection.' Which is pretty clear. Shouldn't there be more information, guidance etc? Quote from the BMJ Colin Angus, senior research fellow at the University of Sheffield’s school of health, also identifies BA.2 as the key factor. He told The BMJ, 18 March “The recent rise in covid-19 infections, which is being driven by the emergence of the more transmissible BA.2 variant of omicron, has led to increases in the number of people in hospitals in England with covid-19 in all age groups and across all regions of the country.” Most people think it's all over when it's quite clearly not.
