‘The public and media are not aware that today we no longer live in a city with a properly functioning western health-care system.’ UK
‘These basic principles of public health and infectious disease control were ignored, for reasons that remain opaque.’Dr Horton’s assessment is that ‘the gravity of that scandal has yet to be understood’, as he alleged that doctors ‘have been forced to go to hardware stores to buy their own face masks’ and that patients with suspected Covid-19 are mixing with non-Covid-19 patients.
His warning came as the UK saw its biggest day-on-day rise in deaths since the Covid-19 outbreak began, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock said they have tested positive for the virus and frontline testing of NHS workers was set to begin.A total of 759 people have now died in UK hospitals after being diagnosed with coronavirus, while around 14,500 have tested positive and hundreds of thousands more people are thought to be infected.
The en masse effort came after NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens was forced to defend his track record heading the service, with the country’s proportion of intensive care units before the crisis among the lowest in Europe.
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