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When a patient goes with covid symtpoms to a GP, the first logical thing a medical professional would do is to test the patient for the viral infection suspected, for which a test exists, is cheap and very easy to do. Only that the GPs have no access to covid tests. Where does the fact that most basic & the cheapest step in the fight against covid (covid testing) leave a GP and his/her patient? How is it possible for medical professionals to not have access to tests for a condition that killed millions? What is the justification and what are the real consequences for this? Why does my local hospital's pharmacy has a note in the window to tell us they have no covid tests? What happens when covid is suspected in an outpatient? What is the justification and what are the consequences for this? Why aren't covid tests part of the medical care, in the same way any other tests are? Why aren't covid tests implemented into health care, but left to the patient to decide, not the doctor? Taking tests away from the medical settings has endless consequences for the whole health care system, despite being the simplest, cheapest and most logical step in the fight against covid. There is no logical, financial,economic, humanitarian sense, so why did they do it?

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How were doctors trained to acknowledged covid and long covid? Why do the long covid statistics only come from self-diagnosed patients. How many patient, not aware of long covid, are ever diagnosed by doctors? How was covid and long introduced into health care assesments? How can it be introduced into healthcare , when hospitals and GP surgeries don't even wear masks? How did the disinformation campaign affect health care, considering that my local hospitals suddenly gave up masks and used their public health screens to remind patients not to wear maks? At the same time while paediatric wards were getting overwhlemed. Why didn't NHS tell this country that paediatric wards were full in the summer? Why was this mentioned only once at the beginning of winter? Then blamed on lockdowns by the doctors presenting it? How did the disinformation campaing become the norm?

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