Colleagues
Thanks to John Ryan and Rowley the implications of SARS are beginning to sink home to an increasingly complacent list. I have been concerned for several months. Yesterday I was reviewing the expereriences of the Canadian medics and the disease has ground the mechanisations of the hospitals to a halt. The staff literally get knackered doing 12hour shifts under the protective equipment.
As sure as eggs are eggs and night follows day it will hit the UK. With any viral illness from smallpox to flu it is infective before the patients have clinical manifestations. My extensive research of the condition defines two camps. The clinical virologists of whom I hold the highest regard recommend strict quarantine while the CMO and the CCCD's are in my opinion more laissez faire.
I am somewhat alarmed because it will have a profound effect on the A&E modernisation.
Kind regards
Danny McGeehan
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