Adapt to the Frenzy: the ‘Quad-demic’
The winter crises are so predictable - but not to some.
UK “flu” cases are four times higher amid fear of the NHS ‘quad-demic’, reports the Times.
The NHS is facing a “quad-demic” of health emergencies as it heads into winter, with hospitals “busier than ever” at this time of year, said Professor Stephen Powis, the national medical director of the NHS,
The Guardian reports the number of hospitals ‘with flu’ in England has more than quadrupled compared with last year.’ We’re told that the UKHSA is currently monitoring the activity levels of four illnesses that all peak throughout winter: Flu, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus and norovirus.
The current data reports that 1,099 flu patients were in hospital last week. Putting aside the fact that ‘’flu’ covers a myriad of agents, the reports state that this is the highest number of patients for this time of year since NHS England started publishing the data in 2021.
The NHS also said, reports the Telegraph, ‘there had been a surge in winter vomiting-bug norovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (…
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