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(1/5) As a frontline clinician, I can only plead for people to please don't give up on Safe Healthcare Practices.
1. Most people with Covid have mild illnesses. This can usually be managed with self-isolation at home, without taking risky steps that might spread the virus to
1. Most people with Covid have mild illnesses. This can usually be managed with self-isolation at home, without taking risky steps that might spread the virus to
(2/5) other households.
2. A small but important proportion have serious complications. If you become so ill that you are unable to care for your children, you should immediately call an ambulance. Do not drive anywhere else and risk your life, or the lives of others by seeding
2. A small but important proportion have serious complications. If you become so ill that you are unable to care for your children, you should immediately call an ambulance. Do not drive anywhere else and risk your life, or the lives of others by seeding
(3/5) disease into outside communities.
3. We have well-established procedures in hospitals to protect loved ones if their carers require admission. These include packages of care for frail older persons whose partners have fallen ill.
Or emergency social services support for
3. We have well-established procedures in hospitals to protect loved ones if their carers require admission. These include packages of care for frail older persons whose partners have fallen ill.
Or emergency social services support for
(4/5) younger people who need looking after if their parent is struck down by serious illness. For instance, driving to stay at a vulnerable older person's residence, with a potentially infected and INFECTIOUS child, is completely inappropriate from a medical viewpoint.
(5/5) Please let healthcare professionals take care of things and stay safe. Don't go it alone or endanger other people's lives.
