{"id":592,"date":"2020-12-21T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-telegraph\/"},"modified":"2020-12-21T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:41:00","slug":"dauk-in-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in the Telegraph:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I think January is going to be a very difficult time. If we&#8217;ve not vaccinated staff and we&#8217;ve got sickness going on due to self-isolation and possible Covid infection then we&#8217;re going to be in big trouble, more than we already are.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Dr Zainab Najim, DAUK Spokeswoman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NHS workers and police are asking to be at the front of the vaccine queue, as they plead for priority over the elderly in order to tackle a winter surge in infections. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medics warned of a January crisis in care if swathes of NHS staff are struck down by the virus or forced to isolate due to exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Covid-19 strain, which the Prime Minister said on Saturday was up to 70 per cent more transmissible, has led to increased worry about the risk to staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Zainab Najim, a junior doctor and Doctors Association UK spokeswoman, said the new strain meant the virus was more likely to get &#8220;out of control&#8221; as medical staff vaccinated vulnerable people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said the arrangement was affecting morale among staff, who felt &#8220;forgotten&#8221; after months of putting themselves at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I think January is going to be a very difficult time. If we&#8217;ve not vaccinated staff and we&#8217;ve got sickness going on due to self-isolation and possible Covid infection then we&#8217;re going to be in big trouble, more than we already are,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A poll carried out by the association, of 1,000 frontline doctors, found that 70 per cent had not yet received or been offered the vaccine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the article can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/12\/21\/vaccinate-us-first-say-doctors-police-amid-concern-new-infectious\/\" class=\"rank-math-link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think January is going to be a very difficult time. If we&#8217;ve not vaccinated staff and we&#8217;ve got sickness going on due to self-isolation&hellip;<\/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":[52,44,38,326,33,34,42,43],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protect-the-frontline","tag-protectthefrontline","tag-covid-19","tag-dauk","tag-dr-zainab-najim","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-the-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}