UK: Public Health England Downgrades Classification of COVID Last Week, Media Silent [VIDEO]

Pam Barker | Director of TLB Europe Reloaded Project

This story was picked up yesterday by the valiant team of Brian Gerrish and Mike Robinson at UK Column, Wednesday March 26, and we’re reposting their video on this and other related stories they discuss below. It was simply too important a program to miss.

The information republished below can be found by going to the UK government website, then going to Health Protection / Infectious Diseases, and COVID-19: Guidance for Health Professionals. It’s rather like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack if you use this method, and I haven’t been able to.

Public Health England is no longer classifying COVID-19 as a ‘High Consequence Infectious Disease’ as of March 19, 2020 – A WEEK AGO. So shouldn’t we be informed of that? Shouldn’t that make banner headlines?

Readers may be interested to know also that Jon Rappoport picked up this story himself at his blog.

We’ve reprinted the website information below, with screenshots added below that, just in case. Emphasis has been added to the original text. Note that it says the mortality rate is ‘low overall’ although it doesn’t attempt to quantify that.

The video is cued at the point where the UK Column team start talking about this story, but we highly recommend listening to at least 20 minutes beyond that. It was definitely one of their most important programs. Many people have been asking them probing questions about what exactly we are all dealing with regarding the coronavirus hype and why such liberty-destroying, economy-destroying measures are being taken.

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Status of COVID-19

As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.

The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.

The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.

The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government’s COVID-19 response.

Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCID treatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPC guidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.

Definition of HCID

In the UK, a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) is defined according to the following criteria:

  • acute infectious disease
  • typically has a high case-fatality rate
  • may not have effective prophylaxis or treatment
  • often difficult to recognise and detect rapidly
  • ability to spread in the community and within healthcare settings
  • requires an enhanced individual, population and system response to ensure it is managed effectively, efficiently and safely

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SCREENSHOTS & LINK TO SITE:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid

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