Posted on 03/26/2020 10:01:29 AM PDT by xzins
Guidance and information about high consequence infectious diseases and their management in England.
Last updated 21 March 2020 — see all updates From:
Public Health England
Status of COVID-19
Status of COVID-19
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.
The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.
The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government’s COVID-19 response.
Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCID treatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPC guidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.
GOV.UK
Coronavirus (COVID-19): what you need to do
More at this link https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
They have taken it off the list that included SARS, Mers, Ebola, hemorrhagic fever, etc.
That is what caught my eye.
Gee thanks
As someone who has an ER doctor as a close relative, I am very cynical given the UK’s record on healthcare.
Is this a ruling about removing requirements in UK hospitals to wear PPE because they cannot provide it? In other words, it’s a Darwinian decision to let the weak die and the strong survive as best they can.
Read the interview with Wuhan’s Central Hospital ER Director as to whether COVID19 was contagious:
https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/03/11/dr-ai-fen-the-wuhan-whistle/
It appears to be a matter of their standards for a disease to be on their hcid lust.
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