Experts say that soaring infections have been fuelled by the recent freezing weather conditions forcing people indoors together
Ahead of the strikes, Health Secretary Steve Barclay warned of the strain on the system as a result of, after accusing unions of making the “conscious decision” to put patients at risk.
He warned that in the week leading up to 21 December there had been a 73 per cent increase in hospital admissions for flu, and a 27 per cent rise due to Covid. Mr Barclay added that the concerns around cases of Strep A have also led to the prescription rate of antibiotics being five times higher, telling BBC Radio 4’sProfessor Julian Redhead, national clinical director for urgent and emergency care at NHS England, told MPs that “demand and flow” was the main problem facing the health service ahead of the strikes.
He explained to MPs on the Commons health and social care committee: “We’ve seen increases in flu, we’ve seen increases in Covid admissions and the cold snap – we know cold weather is associated with ill health as well and we’ve seen rises from those as well. “Our occupancy levels are higher now than most times of the year. So we’re running at about 98 per cent occupancy across our trusts.”Covid infections shot up by 43 per cent in just a two-week period, toAnd they are forecast to hit around 250,000 new daily symptomatic cases a day by Christmas Day, peaking at around 300,000 in January before drifting down, according to Tim Spector, the professor who runs the Zoe app.seen in July and considerably higher than it has been for most of the pandemic.
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