The Covid London Bus

[piggynose]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56508369
Did it really save many lives?

[woofgang]

yes.

[Mamyalynne]

Undoubtedly and will again in the future.

[emmie]

undoubtedly.

[lady-janine]

Just a pity the vaccination was not made available to bus drivers and supermarkets works, not only to keep them safer but also the people they came in contact with.

Everyone who comes in contact with other people on a daily basis should be required to be tested and vaccinated. Anyway that my opinion. I just want everyone to be safe.

[woofgang]

lady janine, its been done by the science...the people who are most likely to be hospitalised and die first and so on

[emmie]

too many died because they didn't have any protection whatsoever

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/23/london-bus-drivers-covid-ucl-report-public-inquiry

[lady-janine]

Exactly emmie. No protection at all. A certain mayor is too busy wasting money on unnecessary and nonsensical projects he has dreamed up.

[emmie]

i guess at first they didn't realise how serious it was, by the time they did it was too little too late. i saw a bus driver the other day on tv with no mask, absurd.

[Mamyalynne]

This question is about more than the bus, it's about the discussion on it that led to the Recovery Trial and the people it has saved. This approach will continue to find best treatments for the future too.

https://www.recoverytrial.net/study-faq

[emmie]

London bus drivers died with Covid-19 at almost three times the national average for other occupations, a new study has found.

At least 51 drivers in the capital have died since the pandemic began after catching coronavirus, according to Transport for London.

[emmie]

im sure that's true mamy, but its shameful that so many have died in transporting passengers

[Mamyalynne]

I was staying on topic, I'll leave you to it then.

[douglas9401]

If ever a statement needed a link it's that one at 15.10.

[emmie]

if you care to read the Guardian link its in there someplace.

[mushroom25]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56404444

[emmie]

from the Guardian link:

the bus drivers looked at my dad’s coffin that day with the unmistakable appearance of men who had dodged a bullet. They were right to feel that way. According to a report released last week by UCL’s Institute of Health Equity, 27 bus drivers died of Covid-19 in London between March and May 2020. Accounting for factors such as age and ethnicity, bus drivers in London were more than three times more likely to die than people in the east and south-east of England, and more than twice as likely to die than your average Londoner.

[pastafreak]

The article ...and Op's question...is about this...

//The two bus passengers were Prof Martin Landray, a doctor and designer of large-scale drug trials, and Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's biggest funders of medical research - and one of the funders of Recovery.

The date was 9 March 2020. The pair were discussing the impending pandemic, the scenes coming out of Italy, which was the first country in Europe to feel the devastating impact of the virus, and the inevitability of the UK facing the same.//

Not about those who were not protected enough early on, unfortunate as that is.
Well...that's my impression anyway.

[emmie]

thanks mushroom this was from that link.

As of 15 March 2021, the number of bus worker deaths in London is 65. Fifty-one of them were drivers.

[emmie]

i did read the OP - and said undoubtedly they saved lives....

[Mamyalynne]

I think that ship has sailed Pasta.