UK’s Covid cases ‘don’t bode well for winter’ amid fears of 25k flu deaths and ‘last resort’ lockdown
, and 8,000 admitted to hospital, Prof Gupta said the data suggest that "we're not out of the woods".
"[That is] of course making care for non-Covid patients extremely difficult as well because of the stretch of the staff that are in those hospitals who have been under pressure for 18 months now. Prof Gupta said the situation moving into autumn “could have been avoided” had the UK opened up more slowly than it did.Government vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was “concerned about flu”, which will soon begin circulating more widely.
“There is a lot less natural immunity around in our communities and the flu vaccine itself, not just in the UK but being deployed across Europe, has less efficacy than normal but it is still effective.Calum Semple, a member of Sage and professor of child health and outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool, agreed “it’s not just going to be coronavirus that’s causing us trouble” this winter.
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