Coronavirus doctor's diary: 'We're no longer heroes - this is the new normal'

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Dr John Wright looks ahead to the difficulties to come this winter, and considers how much has changed since March.

Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary looks ahead to the difficulties to come this winter, and considers how much has changed since March.

This time we know what we are doing; we have learnt hard lessons. Our treatments are better and we are managing patients with Teutonic efficiency and insightful compassion. The chaos of PPE shortages is a distant memory with scrubs and visors laid out in the ward donning rooms like a bespoke tailor's shop. Consultant in respiratory medicine Paul Whitaker notes that in spring "there was a sense of camaraderie and everyone was rising to the challenge".

The other major challenge he foresees is the task of keeping patients safe outside the red zone, where the Covid-19 cases are isolated. We are now effectively running two hospitals - the red zone and the green zone - and we know from the spring that controlling the spread of infection from one to the other is hard, if not impossible. This invisible coronavirus bundle of RNA has a knack of evading all our carefully prepared border controls.

Will there be a double whammy of flu and Covid-19? It's possible, though measures taken to control the transmission of one, should control the other, and signs from the southern hemisphere, where winter has already come and gone, and are positive. Flu cases there have dropped dramatically.

 

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I should think that would be more like the old normal.

You guys will always be heroes!!!!

Patients in the article say they wear masks so they are clearly not working. Making things worse if anything. There’s a CDC study that also highlights this. Also, most severe cases are with the elderly and with pre existing conditions. Like most flus seasons they are hit worse

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Always heroes to me.

A job is a job you fuking Dink's..'fact'..

Better than heroes!

Erhm... u never were heros

The 'new normal' is ABnormal. I will never accept the life we have now as normal.

You never were heroes, just people doing the job you’re paid to do. The true heroes are all those that have had to sacrifice their livelihoods, those that have been thrust into poverty, all to protect your organisation whose sole purpose is to protect us. Be thankful u have a job

They are so wrong they are and always will be heroes

Breaking news...Doctors attended the sick again. In other news today, pilots flew planes and teachers taught lessons. However, no chip butty was served in the north as its too dangerous there.

A nurse or doctor looks after sick people...a firefighter goes into a burning building to rescue some one.. a police officer faces a knife wielding maniac..heroes? Doing their job? Does being busy in your job make you a hero? A greatly overused word is hero.

the new normal...bah overused phrase....you get an F for the day

Funny how abnormalities becomes the new normal, 2020 dramatic and full of surprises

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Just a job? Do it? Look after us?

You are killers. Capacity never got above 40% even at the peak. Our hospitals were closed to none Covid patients in March. Tens of thousands have died as a result. More dying due to cancelled screenings and essential treatment. Justice will be served.

Stop saying “new normal.” This may be your new normal but there is nothing normal about it whatsoever. You will find a lot of us out here will never accept your “new normal.”

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Get the fooking hospitals open!!

Report the real news... Smoking gun!! WheresHunter CrookedJoeBiden

Emotional blackmailing to magnify a disease with 99.7% survival rate for over 80s with sever underlying conditions

They aren't heroes he's correct for facing 2nd wave they are far more than just heroes, they're Super Heroes. Sadly the government have allowed so many people stab the nhs staff in the back by not stopping protesters drunks etc and taking a zero tolerance stance

NHS lost ALOT off support when they pumping out tiktok videos while we was being told hospitals where full of covid patients

Collaborators and killers for the lie.

All those complaining should see what life is like for all in the NHS. We are likely going to need to rely on them heavily in the coming months.

You are heroes !

You'll always be heroes.

For what they do, they are always heroes no matter what

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