Lockdowns and cancer/elective care: why do they happen together?
Channel: Miss V Martin
Date: 2021-12-23

Some people claim that lockdowns cause a deficit in cancer care and elective procedures. Certainly regular (non-Covid healthcare) has suffered during the pandemic, especially during lockdowns - but is this cause and effect?

Here's a video explaining why lockdowns do not *cause* healthcare failings: problems arise because inadequate measures to prevent spread are in use early on, and lockdown happens too late.

There are other, better alternatives which have far less effect on the economy too.

Created by Vicki Martin www.vickimartin.co.uk in collaboration with Deepti Gurdasani (Queen Mary University of London) and using VideoScribe.