The health secretary announces the government's autumn and winter plan for dealing with COVID-19, including a Plan B.
An article states,
"Downing Street said there was no metric for triggering plan B measures, with Boris Johnson's spokesman saying a new variant or benchmark of new cases per week would not necessarily mean a move to the back-up plan.
He said a range of data would need to be considered, including the number of patients in hospital, increase in hospital admissions, ratio of cases to hospital admissions, and the trajectory of new cases.
"All of those sorts of things would need to be factored in alongside vaccine effectiveness, waning immunity, etcetera," he said.
"It is right to look at a range of metrics and not be overly prescriptive and consider the latest advice we are getting from experts, like Professor Whitty (England's chief medical officer) and others."" (Article and PDF)
HM Government COVID-19 RESPONSE: AUTUMN AND WINTER PLAN (SEP21)
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. BUILDING OUR DEFENCES THROUGH PHARMACEUTICAL INTERVENTIONS
- What about teaching people to build their natural defences/immunity?
- 3. IDENTIFYING AND ISOLATING POSITIVE CASES TO LIMIT TRANSMISSION
- NB: Governement continue to state that, "... it is still possible to catch and spread COVID-19, even if you are fully vaccinated..."
- YET
- "You’re not required to self-isolate if you live in the same household as someone with COVID-19, or are a close contact of someone with COVID-19, and any of the following apply: you’re fully vaccinated you’re below the age of 18 years and 6 months you’ve taken part in or are currently part of an approved COVID-19 vaccine trial"? OR
- "... it's important to .. quarantine when returning from red list countries and for those people not fully vaccinated arriving from amber list countries"
- BUT Government states that, "There are still cases of COVID-19 in England and there is a risk you could catch or pass onthe virus, even once you are fully vaccinated" [with the experimental jab]" (Govt link, leaflet and PDF)
- 4. SUPPORTING THE NHS AND SOCIAL CARE
- 5. ADVISING PEOPLE ON HOW TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND OTHERS
- What about teaching people to avoid hospitalisation by using early home-based treatments, as used successfully around the world?
- 6. PURSUING AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH: HELPING VACCINATE THE WORLD AND MANAGING RISKS AT THE BORDER
- 7. CONTINGENCY PLANNING
- 8. LEGISLATION AND REVIEWS
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