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Mortality

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Originally published August 25, 2012
Authors Christopher Hitchens
OCLC776526158
Country United States
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Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens, comprising seven essays which first appeared in Vanity Fair concerning his struggle with oesophageal cancer, with which he was diagnosed during his 2010 book tour and which killed him in December 2011.

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there were fears of a higher officials in the NHS that Children with diseases are in no way related to Covid-19, to the hospital Too Late , and come to harm as a result of a leaked E-Mail seen by BBC Newsnight says.

The possible reasons for late presentation include General advice about Covid-19; patient access to NHS 111 and the parental concern about The Children in the hospital during the Corona-Virus-pandemic.

The comments by The National Clinical Director for Children and Young People in Nhs England emerged on the same day from the same time Last Year .

Nhs England and The Department for health and social Affairs Said that people should always come to the front, for urgent Care .

she added that parents with serious concerns about the health of your child, should the online the NHS 111 service or call 999 in an emergency.

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'The E-Mail, dated 31 March, detailed a number of cases, of a part of the United Kingdom. Described Children ranged in age from 10 Years to only six months.

In one case, A Mother reported that she only waited, responded to NHS 111 for More Than 60 Minutes , while your child is "arrested" - Medical Terminology for The Heart or breathing to stop. The Child later died.

In another case, referred to in the E-Mail of A Mother says that she was told that the was sick, busy car too much so, while your child was "semi-conscious and vomiting".

And another set of parents were reported not to have taken, unwell child to the hospital for Five Days , as she believed that there was "danger in hospitals is the Covid-19". The Child also died.

The E-Mail made it clear that this evidence was ultimately anecdotal.

Dr. Martin Marshall , Chairman of The Royal College of GPs, Said that The Children come to doctors with similar symptoms Covid-19 "more of a non-Covid state".

Dr. Richard Brown , a consultant paediatrician at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Said there had been "recurring themes", such as torn attachments, severe sepsis in young Children who should not yet to the hospital as fast as you can.

He added that it is not only among The Children , the visit were to see a decline in visitors, a doctor.

"the things that we would expect to see in General Practice that we are concerned, we could not see, would be the early presentation of cancer symptoms, for example, we would see normally, and they soon find themselves for the assessment. "

Anecdotally, fewer of the patients than the doctors expect that to come to you with heart problems and strokes. Some doctors have Said you can Newsnight notes on patients who have received suboptimal Care , because the resources were diverted elsewhere.

On Thursday, the medical Director for Nhs England , Stephen Powis encouraged that people in emergency Said situations - including those that seek with sick Children Care ", just as you have always done" - and the interim Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, that parts of the health service were "eerily quiet".

experts say they believe that there will be a spike in all-cause Mortality - to die for all different reasons, not only Covid-19. This was know as a potential problem in the reviews of the previous outbreak, including the 2009 swine flu pandemic

"We find that in previous pandemics, both overseas and in the UK, if you have made the Mortality is increased as a result of other conditions," Said Dr. Marshall adds: "In the flu crisis 10 Years ago in the UK, we saw a higher Mortality rate for heart attacks and strokes. "

All the doctors Newsnight language, as well as the government, the people are urged to seek medical help when you needed.

"The most important message I want to convey today, to present Children who are sick, to your emergency Department. We will keep you Children safe and will continue to do so, if we get these references," Dr. Brown Said .



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Source of news: bbc.com

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