DAUK’s Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden featured in Medscape’s Covid-19 roundup on 9th February 2021:

NHS ‘Nothing Special’ 

“There is nothing special about the NHS, neither during this pandemic, nor at any other time.”

Those words come from an Institute Of Economic Affairs report called ‘Viral Myths: Why we risk learning the wrong lessons from the pandemic’.

The document from the think-tank’s Dr Kristian Niemietz argues that the pandemic “has given rise to the phenomenon of ‘Coronfirmation Bias’: the tendency to interpret the pandemic as a ‘vindication’ of one’s own world view”. 

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, president of Doctors’ Association UK tweeted: “I am so upset by this. We have worked ourselves into the ground to save lives. We have lost hundreds of colleagues. How dare you. How dare you.”

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an intensive care registrar, says NHS staff are facing “devastating” abuse online and at protests.

She thinks it’s driven by coronavirus sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.

In response Dr Batt-Rawden, who is president of the Doctors’ Association UK, started her own campaign for people to post blue hearts on social media to show their support for health workers.

Watch the video on the BBC News site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-55616041

Available here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-covid-vaccine-oxford-lockdown-tiers-deaths/

On account of the tireless work of the DAUK team in raising awareness of the rising COVID-19 burden on hospitals nationwide, Twitter has created a Moment covering the past 24 hours.

This Moment creates a platform for doctors, experts and journalists to speak as one, placing the stories of NHS workers in their hard battle against the virus centrefold.

You can read and join this Moment below: