{"podcast":{"title":"Dr. John Campbell","slug":"dr-john-campbell-7851784","podcast_index_feed_id":7851784,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VG9554039150","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7a133470-32e4-11f1-ae26-ef5a830a5f06/image/aacd596ff9b51467520b0238cfcd1c87.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Campbellteaching","episode_count":658,"summary":"Hello Everyone, My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and former clinical nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally. LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-john-campbell-5256223b/ Twitter, https://twitter.com/Johnincarlisle Disclaimer; These media including videos, book, e book, articles, podcasts are not peer-reviewed. They should never replace individual clinical judgement from your own health care provider. No media-based material on this channel is suitable for using as professional medical advice. All comments are also for educational purposed only and must never replace advice from your own health care provider","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T06:22:02.195523+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784"},"episode":{"title":"Latest data, looking encouraging","slug":"latest-data-looking-encouraging","published_at":"2026-09-12T08:55:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/latest-data-looking-encouraging","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG1383770579.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG1383770579.mp3","summary":"Full summary in the first few minutes of this video, its good news examination of the 166 patients admitted since the Omicron variant arrived snapshot of the clinical profile of 42 patients currently in the COVID wards at SB The majority of hospital admissions are for diagnoses unrelated to COVID-19. The SARS-CoV-2 positivity is an incidental finding in these patients and is largely driven by hospital policy requiring testing of all patients requiring admission to the hospital. 76% of patients are incidental COVID admissions. This very unusual picture is also occurring at other hospitals in Gauteng. The high proportion of COVID incidental admissions may reflect higher rates of community transmission compared to previous waves (variants) that is not translating into higher admission rates for a primary COVID-19 diagnosis. Tshwane District Omicron Variant Patient Profile - Early Features 4th December https://www.samrc.ac.za/news/tshwane-district-omicron-variant-patient-profile-early-features There has been a significant rise in new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the Gauteng Province in the last four weeks which has been attributed to Omicron variant announced on 24 November 2021 The first cases of Omicron were detected in the Tshwane District The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng Province, South Africa The Metropolitan area is centred on the city of Pretoria with surrounding towns and localities population of 2,708,702 people This is where the 4th wave started Tshwane has been the global epicentre of the Omicron Outbreak cases rising exponentially over several weeks 41,921 cases by 3 December 29 November to 3 December 2021 Cases + 9,929 reported in Tshwane Steve Biko/Tshwane District H…","meta_description":"Full summary in the first few minutes of this video, its good news examination of the 166 patients admitted since the Omicron variant arrived snapshot of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1427,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dr-john-campbell-7851784/episodes/latest-data-looking-encouraging/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/latest-data-looking-encouraging.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}