The reality of the rise in COVID infections - hidden from view, in a world so desperate to move on from this pandemic. Sadly, the virus hasn't gone. Hospitals that succumbed to inadequate forms of infection prevention and control, now being exposed. www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Tess Finch-Lees: We’re drowning in a wave of Covid, but hospitals aren’t even insisting on masks

Midnight: phone pings. “It’s seven hours since I’ve had food or water, six days since I saw my kids, five days since I slept, two hours since I’ve been lying in my own urine”. That was a message from ...

'Tess Finch-Lees: "The BMJ, reported unequivocal evidence that SARS2 is airborne”, noting: “[Hospital] infections occur despite strict contact and droplet precautions and reduce when airborne precautions are added.” Respirator masks are a vital IPC tool.' www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Tess Finch-Lees: We’re drowning in a wave of Covid, but hospitals aren’t even insisting on masks

Midnight: phone pings. “It’s seven hours since I’ve had food or water, six days since I saw my kids, five days since I slept, two hours since I’ve been lying in my own urine”. That was a message from ...

Now in the middle of a summer #SARSCoV2 surge in the UK too - most likely due to the new variants circulating, waning immunity, failure to adopt optimum 'infection protection and control' approaches in much of the health and care sector, and government and political negligence.