NHS Hospitals Bring Back Mask Mandates
NHS hospitals are telling patients, visitors and staff to wear face masks due to rising levels of winter bugs and low vaccine take-up, despite the lack of good evidence that they work
The Telegraph has more:
An early flu season has piled pressure on the health service, with the number of patients in hospital with influenza more than tripling in two weeks.
The rate of hospitalisations from flu increased from 1.8 per 100,000 toward the end of November to 5.53 in the week ending December 8th, data from the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show.
Combined with high rates of Covid, vomiting-bug norovirus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children, some NHS hospitals have ushered in a return to face masks.
Hospitals across Lincolnshire introduced mandatory face masks for patients and visitors across some areas on Friday.
The United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said: “The additional infection prevention and control measure is being re-introduced in some high-risk areas due to an increase in respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19, Influenza A and RSV in the county’s hospitals and community settings.”
The trust said all visitors would be asked to wear “a hospital-provided type II R surgical face mask when visiting our wards and departments” including in A&Es, urgent treatment centres and in cancer and paediatric units.
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust warned that its A&E was “extremely busy” and urged parents to “only attend if your child is seriously unwell”.
“We are seeing a high number of patients with flu currently,” it added. “If you do need to attend our emergency department with your child, please do wear a face mask to protect yourself, other families and our teams caring for patients.”
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust has said it was “encouraging visitors to wear masks when entering, especially patients entering the emergency department”.
It said it was to provide protection “from increasing numbers of COVID-19, flu, RSV, and norovirus cases in our hospital” and reminded the public to wash their hands regularly with soap, warning that “alcohol hand gels do not kill norovirus”.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust also warned that visitors “may be asked to wear a mask if you are able to”.
In the Humber and Yorkshire, staff are being told to wear face masks.
The Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has asked staff to wear the coverings in all patient-facing areas in response to a “low uptake of the flu vaccine” in the local area.
Amanda Stanford, group Chief Nurse, said it was because of rising cases of the virus over the last fortnight and that “all measures will be kept under constant review by our senior nursing and infection control teams”.
Humber Health Partnership told staff: “It is now mandatory for all staff, clinical and non-clinical, in all patient-facing areas to wear face masks because of the increase in cases of flu.”
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schutzhund
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1- things that fit through a mask
https://twitter.com/i/status/1705077588790825066
2 – Bad News for Mask-Wearers: Study Shows Link to More Covid Infections
https://lists.youmaker.com/links/38qaDCzSd/wD7fxSc7XA/b1wCT9qDet/hj4CGuWEC
3 – Mask efficiency
https://twitter.com/i/status/1741597322910306787
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Frank S.
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My local CVS Pharmacy has all their employees sporting face diapers. Sad state of affairs.
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VOWG
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Ignorance as they say is bliss.
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Len W.
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Nothing that a bit of Vit D3 or calicifidiol, and a dose of common sense, won’t sort:
Meanwhile, in preparation for the next bout of nonsense, I’ve just popped upstairs to get my Sunflower Yanyard out of mothballs. Among the eligibility criteria are ‘mental health condition’, the self-certified condition of MY mental health being ‘good’.
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Len W.
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Re above-mentioned Sunflower Lanyard, the missing link:
https://hdsunflower.com/uk/shop.html
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Roo63
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Since the 1960’s until the Scamdemic, I have been in and out of hospital(s) and other NHS settings, far more often than I would have preferred and never once did the NHS have people wearing masks to stop cold’s or flu’s, other than in theatre. I guess NHS staff have lost their commonsense, but certainly their respect for people ‘with’ commonsense.
It’s a bloody disgrace that they don’t know the basics of healthcare and don’t have the balls to say “No”, when faced with Medical Tyranny from their superiors.
As a child, born in the 60’s, we were always taught to wash our hands, wash behind our ears and to brush our teeth. Sadly such basics, seem to be a thing of the past, as rubbing with chemicals has replaced soap and water.
Sorry for any errors etc., I’m unable to scroll to proof read this reply.
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S G James
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The NHS are also still injecting people with the lethal con vid jabs and still posting letters through peoples mail boxes encouraging people to take them and still saying they are safe and effective.
Say NO to there mask mandates, don’t submit this time, don’t wear any masks, these people are sick, satanic evil criminals that have ruined millions of lives and killed millions with there fake snake poison injections, no one trusts the NHS now, they need to be removed and replaced with a new health system that the people want and trust.
There is a free book to download on the dangers of face masks here https://www.vernoncoleman.com/main.htm
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