Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid

Re:Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid ... by epistasis on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:51AM (#27290483)

> all the deaths from lack of treatment, surgery,

Is there evidence of any of these? I thought this was just a political talking point that wasn't based in reality of any sort, as there hasn't been any academic quantification of it that I have found, and I haven't even found any stories about anecdotes in the media, which is exactly the sort of thing the media loves to sensationalize.

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Re:Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid ... by rich_sasha on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:35PM (#27293560)

9% of people in England, and 23% of people in Northern Ireland, have had crucial treatment or surgery postponed, effectively indefinitely. This isn’t necessarily all life-threatening, eg includes hip replacements etc. but that’s not exactly benign either. Note these are percentages of population, not of patients or cases.

A friend of mine is a senior neurologist at a major hospital in the UK. He said that under Covid all his junior medics, who do a lot of the actual treatments and other legwork, disappeared to other departments. Not only are they not treating and diagnosing neurological patients, but also not getting the job-specific training for when Covid is over.

This is sort of quantitative anecdata, granted, but serious enough that it makes me think it is a real issue.

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