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‘There will be a cost’: Doctors fear consequences of Christmas mixing amid ‘wall-to-wall’ COVID patients – Yahoo News Australia
Experts pleaded for people to follow coronavirus rules on New Year’s Eve as fears continue about the pressure the NHS is under.
Medical experts have warned of a “cost” from Christmas mixing amid reports of “wall-to-wall” COVID cases. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Senior medical experts have warned of the cost of households mixing in the festive period after doctors and nurses spent Christmas Day attending to wall-to-wall coronavirus patients.
Dr Katherine Henderson, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the NHS will cope with a rise in cases but at the price of stopping non-COVID activities.
She pleaded…
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