England: The recurring theme of the pandemic has become how Covid’s impact does not fall evenly throughout the British population.
Health and financial burden disease has been felt disproportionately by people living in areas that lack.
Examples of the determination of this disparity are the fact that, once you take into account the age differences between the group, the most shortcomings in the UK recorded a covid mortality rate of two and a half times higher than the area that was most undracted in the first year of Pandemi.
You don’t need to think too hard to come up with several causes of this inequality.
People from poorer groups tend to be less able to work from home, more likely to live in larger multi-generation households with less space and worse ventilation, tend to have access to good quality health services and more likely health condition There are those who increase the risks associated with Covid infection.
These factors have encouraged significant inequality in health in the UK, but the pandemic deviated them.
But recently, something unexpected happened.
At the end of September, the new Covid case level, which with stubbornness had been the highest in the area that had the most short of 18 months earlier, soaring in areas with low grabbing.
Suddenly, inequality in the case of Covid was reversed without warning.
Large factors in this change are a surge in cases in school children in the area that least lack.
But the same changes occur in older age groups as well.
So what is happening? There are many possible explanations, but one contributing factor tends to be the fact that, after having a high level of case for so long, more confiscated areas have a much higher infection immune level.
Basically, so many people have covid that the virus began to run out of vulnerable people to infect.
However, many prosperous areas have seen relatively fewer cases and exposure to a larger new outbreak, especially among school children who do not have additional vaccine protection.
Unfortunately, there have been major new developments since then: Omicron has arrived.
This new variant seems to be even more contagious than the variant of previous concerns, and has an immune runaway rate, which means far better to release people who have immune levels, whether it has been infected or vaccinated.
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The ability to re-infect people who have covid means that Omicron represents a big risk for areas that are more shortcomings.
All factors that bring up inequality in Covid cases and deaths that we have seen during the first 18 months of the pandemic still exist.
The fact that Omicron can overcome the protection wall that has been built in the area seized through a high level of infection previously means that there is a risk that this inequality will be repeated in a few weeks and months.
Right when it seems like there is light at the end of the tunnel for many who live in a deprived area, the light starts to fade.
There are many still we don’t understand about the new variant – whether the infected person is less likely to end in hospitals than the previous variant, for example.
But there is a reason for at least optimistic in front of it.
However, even if it turned out to be true, we have seen the number of unprecedented cases in young people in London in the past week, and a small portion of a very large amount can still be very large.
Given the great pressure that the NHS is below, every increase in hospital admission is a serious problem.
Booster needs a fair launch.
One hope is a booster.
The proof is clear that the third vaccination is effective against Omicron.
The government and NHS attract all stops to get a lot of jab booster in many arms.
But as with the launch of the first and second doses, the lowest level of vaccination in the area has the most shortcomings.
If the British government only focuses on getting as many booster as possible, without making a real effort to increase the coverage of vaccination in the most shortcomings, there are very real concerns that the bay in the health between Britain and nothing in the UK will wider further.