Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Toast said:
A care home down here has been locked down after 45 residents tested positive.

They said they were taking all the recommended measures etc.

Something not right there.
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Care homes get tons of visitors, and I dont mean family, folk like me when I was on the vans.

So early doors, get the issue. But now? 7 months down the track? For deliveries, instead of going to the flat, they are being delivered to one office, then the staff/customer sort it. Same with post.

Like you say, sommet seems off beam.
 
roydo said:
Care homes get tons of visitors, and I dont mean family, folk like me when I was on the vans.

So early doors, get the issue. But now? 7 months down the track? For deliveries, instead of going to the flat, they are being delivered to one office, then the staff/customer sort it. Same with post.

Like you say, sommet seems off beam.
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Hard to stop the spread once it's in. 1 staff member bringing it in can spread it round the entire population. Staff working in very close proximity with others. People sat in close proximity for extended periods of time.
 
Toast said:
This isn’t people with the runs from some dodgy scran. If all precautions were being taken then it is possible to contain ?
Well at least I thought it was like.
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Thats been my idea for months. I dont get it, Mrs R, nor no one else does.

I would have thought that after the first month or so of this, ring fencing care homes should actually be a piece of cake. Easier than keeping a supermarket safe anyrate.
 
Toast said:
This isn’t people with the runs from some dodgy scran. If all precautions were being taken then it is possible to contain ?
Well at least I thought it was like.
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Surely viral infections spread around care homes quite a bit, though?

The one my mum used to work in was often in states of 'lockdown' for a week or so if there was a bug going round.

Maybe it suggests that COVID - like a lot of viruses - can spread in other ways? Or maybe the incubation period is longer than they thought? Just thinking out load mate!
 
Toast said:
A care home down here has been locked down after 45 residents tested positive.

They said they were taking all the recommended measures etc.

Something not right there.
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As we get older the immune system can stop working as it should like many things with older age. So perhaps smaller doses are more virulent in older people. Also, staff and family coming and going, many will have children jobs, lives etc. We know already it can be asymptomatic, unless people are requesting staff and family wonder around hazmat suits which would not surprise at all, until then there is always risk viral particles being passed from person to person.


I do notice that now London is part of restrictions that the furlough scheme is back up to 80% when it was 66% for northern areas in tier 3, the north south divide is very much alive...
 
Diogenes the Cynic said:
Hospitals are always one of the top places to catch infections mate, it's why you should try to limit admissions as a last resort and make it as brief as possible.

This was always the case even before Covid. You'd be staggered to see the amount of people admitted for one reason only to develop an unrelated infection on wards to pass away. Its generally people with impaired immune systems and older people but the risk is greater across the spectrum.

Hospitals aren't significantly spreading this virus, the aim needs to be to keep people out of hospital as much as possible

Hospitals in my experience are generally very clean places however it must be noted that they were better when the cleaning staff was in-house and regarded as part of the team rather than unaccountable outsourced agency workers.
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Mate of mine went one of those walk in test centres last Friday - wouldn't be shocked if they were spreaders in their own right considering you have to take your face mask off for a swab test in a small facility with other people potentially Infected in the neighbouring cubicles.

I had a swab test a few month ago but stayed in my car which seems more sensible.
 
BlueToff said:
Surely viral infections spread around care homes quite a bit, though?

The one my mum used to work in was often in states of 'lockdown' for a week or so if there was a bug going round.

Maybe it suggests that COVID - like a lot of viruses - can spread in other ways? Or maybe the incubation period is longer than they thought? Just thinking out load mate!
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No idea anymore mate.

Ive got next week booked off work and I’m just aiming to get there now as I’m sick of it all like everyone else is.
 
LinekersLegs said:
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Insane.

A code error in the NHS Covid-19 app meant users had to be next to a highly infectious patient for five times as long as the NHS had decided was risky before being instructed to self-isolate, the Guardian has learned.

The problem was only discovered last week, when software engineers rewrote how the app decides who needs to isolate and discovered it had been relying on faulty maths since its launch in September.
 
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