{"id":558,"date":"2020-09-16T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/lbc-exclusive-doctors-fear-second-coronavirus-surge-due-to-lack-of-testing\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:02:30","slug":"lbc-exclusive-doctors-fear-second-coronavirus-surge-due-to-lack-of-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/lbc-exclusive-doctors-fear-second-coronavirus-surge-due-to-lack-of-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK on LBC News: Doctors fear second coronavirus surge due to lack of testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, DAUK Chair, appeared on LBC News with Eddie Mair to discuss fears surrounding the latest data which suggests NHS staff are unable to get testing for coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article continues: \u201cThe head of the Doctor&#8217;s Association fears history will repeat itself and England will see a second coronavirus surge due to the lack of available coronavirus tests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden is the Chair of the UK Doctor&#8217;s Association and was speaking to Eddie Mair amid the news that no tests are available in England&#8217;s top 10 hotspots, which was exclusively revealed by LBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She told Eddie that &#8220;it&#8217;s a real worry&#8221; of British doctors that we may see a second peak of coronavirus imminently as a result of the lack of testing available, which feels like a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu for people working in healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We were in exactly the same position in the middle of February, early March when we couldn&#8217;t access tests.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Batt-Rawden went on to point out &#8220;we&#8217;ve had many months to learn from those mistakes and here we are with cases increasing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden speaks to LBC News about the developing COVID-19 testing crisis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wUf5M2d_MyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Doctor&#8217;s Association fears history will repeat itself and England will see a second coronavirus surge due to the lack of available coronavirus tests.Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden is the Chair of the UK Doctor&#8217;s Association and was speaking to Eddie Mair amid the news that no tests are available in England&#8217;s top 10 hotspots, which was exclusively revealed by LBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[38,106,39,54,186,124,125,42],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protect-the-frontline","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-dr-samantha-batt-rawden","tag-featured-radio","tag-radio","tag-radio-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}