About you
What is your name?
Name
Iona Stewart
Consultation questions
1. Has the public health emergency shifted from COVID-19 deaths to deaths from non-COVID-19 conditions?
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Yes
2. Is there evidence that patients are now presenting in a more acute condition?
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Not sure
3. What accounts for the deaths from non-COVID-19 conditions?
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Cancer, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and all other illnesses.
Consultation questions continued
4. Is there enough of a strategic focus on the indirect health impacts of the pandemic?
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Yes
5. What are the realistic options open to the government in addressing the indirect health impact of the virus in winter 2021/22?
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Treat it as any other respiratory illness and stop testing of healthy people especially children.