– The vast majority of those admitted to the intensive care unit are unvaccinated. Some of them are going to die. It is heartbreaking for us as healthcare professionals to see people suffer unnecessarily, knowing that a vaccine could almost certainly have been avoided.
That’s what British intensive care physician Dr. Samantha Batt-Rawden says The Guardian.
Already four days after “Freedom Day” on July 19, when the United Kingdom eased a number of coronary restrictions, FHI’s British sister institute Public Health England (PHE) announced that the infection in the age group 20 to 29 years was at its highest ever.
– Trying to infect as many as possible
An increasing number of young covid patients in the UK are now being hospitalized – several of them in intensive care units, according to The Guardian.
“Freedom Day” also meant a reopening of nightclubs and nightclubs, and pictures of young people partying close together, without bandages, are now prompting experts to beg younger people to be vaccinated as soon as they have the opportunity.
HERRING IN BARREL: Nightclub guests gather at a nightclub in Leeds, Saturday night, July 24. Photo by Ioannis Alexopoulos / LNP / Shutterstock / MNTB
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Infection rates fall
The UK registered 29,173 new cases of infection on Sunday. This is a sharp decline from 48,161 the week before. The number has dropped steadily for five days in a row for the first time since February, according to BBC.
It is the first time during the pandemic that a sustained decline in cases of infection does not coincide with a national shutdown.
But the numbers come with an important caveat.
– Today’s figures do not, of course, reflect the effect of the reopening last Monday (“Freedom Day”, July 19, editor’s note). We will not see that until next Friday, says Professor Paul Hunter at the University of East Anglia to the BBC.
In several countries, including the Netherlands and Spain, the reopening of nightclubs has led to a sharp increase in infection.
At the same time, the national health service NHS (National Health Service) reports that one in three between the ages of 18 and 29 has still not been vaccinated. The figure for the adult population in general is one in ten.
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– Younger people get sick
Dr. Batt-Rawden says that doctors are increasingly seeing young patients become seriously ill. People as young as 20, without underlying diseases that place them in a risk group, are admitted to intensive care units.
Patients continue to get “younger and younger”, she says.
– As an intensive care physician, I beg you to get vaccinated. Please do not let not taking the vaccine be the biggest mistake of your life, she tells The Guardian.
In the British city of Bristol, about 200 people have been admitted with covid-19 during the recent wave of delta infections. The average age of the inpatients is 40. They have also had patients in their 20s who have had to be treated with oxygen.
– This is not always undramatic for young adults. Younger people are getting seriously ill at the moment. There is a good reason to think about getting vaccinated, says Professor Adam Finn at the University of Bristol, and emphasizes that the vaccines reduce the risk of both serious illness and the spread of infection.
– Full speed into the fourth wave
Despite the sky-high infection
On Monday 19 July, almost all coronary restrictions were lifted in England, and British everyday life more or less returned to the way it was before the pandemic.
The reopening took place despite sky-high infection rates. Just days before the major relief was introduced, British ministers were told they had to prepare for one to two million weekly cases of infection in the time ahead.
The reopening led to sharp criticism from health psychologist and professor at University College London, Robert West, who has also served as corona adviser to the government.
On Friday, he accused the government to allow the infection to “tear through the younger population” in an attempt to achieve a herd immunity before winter occurs and it becomes more difficult to maintain infection control.
“What we see is a decision by the government to infect as many people as possible, as quickly as possible,” West told The Guardian.
– Never seen anything like this
Priority seniors
A government spokesman countered with the same newspaper that “herd immunity has never been part of our pandemic strategy.”
“We have always strived to protect the health care and care services, save lives and ensure that as many people as possible are vaccinated when we now learn to live with covid-19,” said the unnamed spokesperson, who further emphasized that the vaccination program has significantly reduced the risk of serious illness and death.
The United Kingdom is among the countries in the world that have come the furthest with the vaccination of the population. The country has – like several other countries – prioritized the elderly and people in the risk group first in the vaccine queue. 58.4 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 24 have received one dose of vaccine.
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– Disturbing
The figure for the age group 25-29 is 58.9 percent. 17.2 and 21.8 percent, respectively, have received two doses, according to Sky News.
The vaccine priority in the UK is one possible explanation for the fact that covid-19 now predominantly affects younger people. According to figures from England National Statistics Office Infection occurs in the age group 16 to 24 years almost six times more frequently than in the age group 50 to 69 years.
– The fourth wave of infection in the UK has grown sharply in just four weeks and is now approaching the level of the previous major wave at the turn of the year. The difference is that the infection is now largely spread among younger people who have not been vaccinated.
This was said by assistant health director Espen Rostrup Nakstad to Dagbladet this weekend.
– Figures from the UK also show that one vaccine dose does not protect very well against becoming infected – as many as two out of three people will still be able to be infected. It’s disturbing.
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