direct to your inboxDavid Oliver is an experienced NHS Consultant Physician and medical writer from Manchester.He has played a variety of national medical leadership and policy roles and has a weekly column in the British Medical Journal.He currently manages Covid wards at a hospital in the south of England.
Here, he takes on three arguments commonly made by 'lockdown sceptics' - arguments he says are undermining public safety.I am a senior hospital doctor who has been working on Covid wards for months on end and seen hundreds of very sick and dying patients from their late 30s to 102.Right now, hospitals including mine are facing daily increases in the number of cases, and huge pressure on our beds from A&E through to wards and Intensive.
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