UK Covid Deaths: Big Questions Loom

It is becoming apparent that the UK is leading most of the world in two specific areas. Vaccine roll out, which is good. And deaths per head of population, which is bad. More than bad it is shocking. The gold standard John Hopkins University stats show that among the leading nations, the UK tops this sombre death table table. Why?

When challenged government ministers shuffle and and defer, but they do not answer. Above all they go nowhere near admitting that it could be down to them and their muddled decision making. They promise a Public Inquiry later, no doubt in the hope it will, as is the custom, whitewash the guilty.

What has struck me as odd from the very beginning is the complete absence of any available treatment until the sufferer becomes so ill as to require hospital admission. But surely as soon as a positive test is received the patient should get local treatment at home in the form of drugs and therapies, normally led by and within the scope of GPs? Steroids, anti-viral drugs, inhalations, anti-inflammatories, etc.? Instead they are simply told to rest and isolate ‘until the symptoms subside’. If anxious about their condition they are told not to contact their doctor but rely upon a telephone help line.

The giant wave of those who then fall very ill has all but overwhelmed the NHS’s capacity to respond. And of course the death rate is horrific. But need this happen in the first place? Normally you end up in hospital with an illness, when all else has failed.

Not when nothing else has been tried.