Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LocalNative]

Recon we will be goin on hol in aug/sept?

Flights will probably be operating by then but it'll be risky still. I've got a couple of trips booked Jul / Aug but going to assume they're written off.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Recon we will be goin on hol in aug/sept?

Just beware, you might wake up with a three-breasted Sharon Stone in Marbella.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Ah, the old "let's make out the other person is getting upset"
Game, set and match to you I guess?

Well... you kinda are fuming a bit aint you?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

563 new deaths today in the UK... Holy Moly!!

 

[tsubaki]

We just started wearing masks for all patient encounters in my outpatient clinic. Supply of masks isn't any better, but now there are approved ways to clean/recycle masks so have been able to protect employees better.

That said - can't have facial hair, make up, perfume/cologne. That can't be cleaned.

So many glorious beards have gone in the past few weeks. Where I work used to have an almost steampunk vibe to it with the pseudo-Victorian facial hair, but all gone now.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

563 new deaths today in the UK... Holy Moly!!

For perspective, 1,600 die per day on average from other stuff.

 

[peteblue]

We just started wearing masks for all patient encounters in my outpatient clinic. Supply of masks isn't any better, but now there are approved ways to clean/recycle masks so have been able to protect employees better.

That said - can't have facial hair, make up, perfume/cologne. That can't be cleaned.

it’s a crisis, you’ll just have to shave your beard off.....

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[tsubaki]

Some people are being tested more than once mate, there were some stats on it the other day, and it was quite a high proportion. I forget exactly what the numbers were, but it was something like 9000 tests carried out on 7000 people. It didn't explain exactly why, but I'd guess that when the test was being taken, something went wrong. Until the number of available tests is noticeably more than what's needed in hospital, then the number of tests carried out on NHS staff will be limited

There are about half a million clinicians ( doctors, nurses , midwifes etc ) working in the NHS. Even if only 10% of them are off-sick or self isolating, you'd need 50,000 tests to check them all. Even if there were 3000 available test slots a day, it'd take more than two weeks to test that backlog, by which time most of them would be out of isolation anyway, hence the prioritising.




That's exactly what they're doing.

Not sure if anyone else who actually works in the NHS can confirm this, but I know of at least one person who got a text off an unknown number telling them to go to a particular location and get tested. It was only a few phone calls that confirmed it was actually the NHS getting their own staff member to go to a test centre.

 

[Nymzee]

For perspective, 1,600 die per day on average from other stuff.

Would add more perspective if the 1,600 was broken down to see if anything alone was close to 600.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

We just started wearing masks for all patient encounters in my outpatient clinic. Supply of masks isn't any better, but now there are approved ways to clean/recycle masks so have been able to protect employees better.

That said - can't have facial hair, make up, perfume/cologne. That can't be cleaned.

Was that an issue like?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

For perspective, 1,600 die per day on average from other stuff.

Oh I feel a lot better now

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Would add more perspective if the 1,600 was broken down to see if anything alone was close to 600.

I believe coronavirus currently sits marginally higher than Everton losing as a cause of death.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Oh I feel a lot better now

Just watch out for that other stuff and you'll be fine.

 

[havrey0123]

563 new deaths today in the UK... Holy Moly!!

Peak coming earlier them expected, this is good news.