• Vitnonourelow [any]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Some quotations from the article (I never click them either):

    "Data shows that patients from the poorest areas account for just one in five patients at the clinics, though separate figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that those living in the most deprived areas are 40 per cent more likely to suffer from long Covid than those from the richest areas."

    "The data for clinic assessments between 25 October and 21 November shows that 4,599 patients in England received “specialist assessments” at the long Covid clinics, but only 851 were from the most deprived areas. Three per cent of patients were Black and 7 per cent Asian, while the majority were white women aged 35 to 64."

    "According to the ONS, an estimated 1.3 million people in the UK have long Covid, with 506,000 suffering for a year or more. Symptoms include fatigue, chest pain, brain fog, shortness of breath and dizziness."

    "Dr Elaine Maxwell, lead author of the reviews undertaken by the National Institute for Health Research titled Living with Covid-19, told The Independent that, under the current system, “only a fraction of people are getting through to specialist care”. She said it was “concerning that only 20 per cent of people seen in long Covid clinics so far have been from the most deprived postcodes, potentially reinforcing the inequalities we see in access to healthcare for other conditions”."

    It's a good reminder to US comrades that 'socialised' healthcare under an imperialist capitalist monarchy isn't especially social. Medieval monarchies built hospitals too. Better than privatised tho obviously. Anyways, "let it rip, herd immunity, time to live with covid" etc.