Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Bruce Wayne said:
I've personally found the universities are churning out a lot of interesting stuff at the moment, and they're a much better source of quality information. A lot of the talk shows, whether on television or radio, merely play to the political tribalists whose sole aim is to bash whomever their chosen opponent is. It's tiresome in the extreme, but you see an example of it in your charming correspondent above.

I noted yesterday, for example, that German doctors are or were staging a protest whereby they appeared at work naked to highlight the lack of PPE they have. That's the Germany that is largely held up as the benchmark for responding to this. There are undoubtedly issues with securing the right amount of this equipment, in the right quality, around the world, as you would probably expect when demand for it must have risen enormously in a very short space of time.

There almost certainly are some interesting aspects of that debate, but it's interesting in a procurement context, a medical use context, and a global trade context. You don't tend to get any of that in the shock jock interviews. It's all just shouting at the 'murdering' politician who draws the short straw and has to submit themselves to the borefest for 10 minutes. Do we know why PPE is in short supply here and elsewhere in the world? Or do we just know it's all the governments fault and they're deliberately killing nurses or something?
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Re the bold part, I'd be interested in reading that. Where can I find it?
 
peteblue said:
I just


My wife and daughter do the shopping. I just can’t see anyone in our area that’ll wear these, but we shall see I suppose......
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well if get asked/told to assume they will to ‘help the country out’ .

It’s all well and good people talking about the country being stronger together and how we only need ourselves to pull together to succeed but it has to be more than a soundbite . If it’s an instruction I presume they will, they’re not the fashion item I’d chose although they’d probably improve my looks .
 
Harryflashman said:
well if get asked/told to assume they will to ‘help the country out’ .

It’s all well and good people talking about the country being stronger together and how we only need ourselves to pull together to succeed but it has to be more than a soundbite . If it’s an instruction I presume they will, they’re not the fashion item I’d chose although they’d probably improve my looks .
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How would they work in a pub, restaurant, coffee shop ?.....
 
peteblue said:
Coward.....
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Even wiggle my backside for you Pete.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
www.cam.ac.uk

Coronavirus pandemic: making safer emergency hospitals

Simple, low-cost ventilation designs and configuration of wards can reduce the dispersal of airborne virus in emergency COVID-19 hospitals, say Cambridge researchers.
www.cam.ac.uk www.cam.ac.uk
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Why do they have beds pointing towards other beds or towards a central nurse area. Surely the nightingale approach of rows, that then point to the rear wall of the row in front is a better layout.......
 

COVID-19: Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in care homes | British Geriatrics Society

The COVID-19 pandemic raises particular challenges for care home residents, their families and the staff that look after them. This guidance has been developed to help care home staff and NHS staff who work with them to support residents through the pandemic.
www.bgs.org.uk www.bgs.org.uk

Do wonder if some of this advice will be looked at in the aftermath. Advising care workers to essentially perform a triage role is interesting to say the least, but the underlying thing there is the recommendation to assess whether going to hospital would actually be more detrimental.
 
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