Discharging untested patients to care homes during the Covid-19 pandemic was "a form of genocide", a front-line doctor has said.
Intensive care doctor Laura McClelland said three things still made her angry four years on from the start of the pandemic.
She added doctors had little option but to discharge patients as they struggled to "rustle up" carers who were willing to risk their lives for minimum wage jobs.
She was speaking ahead of the UK Covid inquiry's three-week visit to Wales, which begins on Tuesday.
When the pandemic broke out, Dr McClelland was working at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, one of those that bore the brunt of the first wave.
She also featured in a BBC Wales documentary made during that time.
She finds it difficult to talk about some of her experiences – the toll on staff, patients and loved ones is not easily forgotten.
And while she is proud of the sacrifices she and colleagues made to adapt and cope, her second source of anger is the impact it had on families, and those left grieving alone, under strict rules to minimise contact.
Trying to establish a rapport with relatives over a video link, as their loved ones were dying from Covid was "deeply inhuman for everybody involved," she said.
Establishing eye contact was near impossible as her visor meant all people saw were reflections bouncing off the plastic.
"I just have to hope the compassion got through," she said, recalling that even voices were muffled through the layers of PPE and background noise.
"It’s something I don’t think we will ever be able to get over". --->READ MORE HERE
The ruling was a setback for the plaintiff-appellant, Children's Health Defense, and its founder, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has rejected a challenge to Rutgers University’s policy requiring students attending classes in person to have a COVID-19 vaccine.
The appeals court, in a precedential decision, upheld a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling dismissing the claims raised by the plaintiffs, 13 students and an anti-vaccine group.
The decision was not unanimous.
Judge Cheryl Ann Krause, writing for the court, was joined by Judge Tamika Montgomery-Reeves, while Judge Kent Jordan issued a partial dissent.
‘Rutgers’ Relentless Insistence’
The ruling was a setback for the plaintiff-appellant, Children’s Health Defense, and its founder, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
That group will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, said Julio C. Gomez, the Scotch Plains, New Jersey, attorney who argued for the appellants.
“Appellants are pleased that the Third Circuit’s opinion established that students who received religious exemptions can have standing to challenge vaccine mandates, reversing the lower court on this issue. The Third Circuit also disagreed with the lower court’s reasoning on other issues, but refused to recognize that university students—or anyone for that matter— have a fundamental right to informed consent and to decide freely whether to accept or refuse an experimental medical product without coercion,” the appellants said in a statement. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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