Dödligt virus från Kina orsakar panik (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19)

/.../I stepped outside, went to the wife, and identified myself. I told her that I was sorry, that we had done everything we could, but her husband had passed a few minutes earlier. I did not manage to get the words of the sentence fully out of my mouth when I felt the fist strike my face and heard the screamed words "You murderer!" I fell backwards, tripped, and plopped onto the pavement, the back off my head striking asphalt. I vaguely heard the words being screamed about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and god knows what else. I heard "you could have saved him if you listened!" I tasted blood from the top of my lip. It took a moment to know it was seeping from my nose, which she had broken. My mask was getting wet, and thus useless. Security grabbed her. They were getting ready to call the police, but I knew if they did, I would become the next national target for the Q maniacs. I told them to just put her in her car. I wasn't going to press charges. I went back to the hospital.

I started looking for a new job the next day. I will never treat a patient again.

Thank God.

Dr Maria Van Kerkhove said: "Getting vaccines to those who need them most must be a priority for every single government - not just some.

"If we don't, we will continue to see the virus change and threaten us in ways that will bring us closer to the beginning rather than closer to the end."

/.../A second analysis from the same research team, this time controlling for vaccination status, found that once admitted to hospital, Omicron and Delta cases from recent weeks both had the same likelihood of progressing to a serious condition. The analyses included more than 10,000 Omicron cases and more than 200 hospital admissions.