COVID-19 cases are rising and winter is drawing closer.
1) If you have not been vaccinated, now is the time.
2) If you are offered a booster please take up the offer.
3) Ventilation, masks in crowded indoor spaces and hand washing remain important.
The great majority of adults have been vaccinated.
Four weeks working on a COVID ward makes stark the reality that the majority of our hospitalised COVID patients are unvaccinated and regret delaying. Some are very sick including young adults.
Please don't delay your vaccine.
Anyone else notice how every ICU consultant literally *never* looks impressed with anything? Like, the night team manage some sort of rourke’s drift level heroics and all they get from handover is the stink eye for not doing a delirium screen at 4am.