48,553 cases
63 deaths
Up, up and away
63 deaths
Up, up and away
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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NW mechanical ventilation almost 30% of peak.
Guessing the younger age range of those ill means that higher percentage will be suitable for that care. The good news is that will probably be reflected in death rates compared to previous waves but still likely to be a large hit on catching up on delayed surgeries.
Guessing the younger age range of those ill means that higher percentage will be suitable for that care. The good news is that will probably be reflected in death rates compared to previous waves but still likely to be a large hit on catching up on delayed surgeries.
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If still using the same 28 days within a positive covid test as the metric, then as cases go up deaths will follow even if covid is not a contributing factor at all.
In terms of cases, I think we are starting to see the Euro semi final numbers. A few more days for the final to come through.
Fingers crossed they drop sharply soon.
In terms of cases, I think we are starting to see the Euro semi final numbers. A few more days for the final to come through.
Fingers crossed they drop sharply soon.
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I wonder how many people have deleted the app recently. I've heard a number of stories of people finishing isolation and being told to isolate again a week later.
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Also the tennis, the British grand prix to come. This could go badly wrong if the vaccine isn't as good as first thought, depending on viral load or possible other viruses mixed in.
We're all part of a live science/social experiment.
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The mystery at the heart of the National Health Service
Millions of patients did not turn up during the pandemic. When will they finally do so? And how ill will they be?
It is midday in Milton Keynes, and a young woman is coming round after surgery on her vocal cords. Her breathing was controlled during the operation, so she is woken carefully, surrounded by blue-scrubbed medics. A chronic smoker, she issues a series of hacking coughs, attempting to clear built-up phlegm—and the medics are once more exposed to any illnesses she may be carrying.
Throat surgery is known by a newly popular acronym: it is an agp, or Aerosol-Generating Procedure. The entire point of ear, nose and throat surgery, says Hamid Manji, Milton Keynes University Hospital’s clinical director for surgery, is to “mess around with that airway mucosa, be it pharyngeal, be it nasal or in this case vocal”. That releases viruses, which is a problem during a pandemic.
Lots of this sort of surgery stopped last year. Now theatres are deep-cleaned between procedures, and patients must isolate and take a covid-19 test before arriving. The result is an enormous backlog. Across England, and in all specialisms, more than 5.1m operations are waiting to be carried out, the longest list since records began. And the waits are increasingly lengthy: nearly 400,000 of these operations have been planned for more than a year, up from 1,500-odd before the pandemic.
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@GrandOldTeam It won't let me post the whole article mate. It says ''Oops! We ran into some problems. Please try again later. More error details may be in the browser console.'' So I had to cut it short...
If the below is accurate Netherlands has ~ same 1 dose coverage as UK but less for 2 dose
The whole thing is a mess.
My wifes work closed their bodyshop last week cos the whole department tested positive, a few of the salesmen positive tested, her manager tested positive, did they shut down? Did they tell everybody to isolate? Nope, carry on, everything's fine.
My daughter was with somebody who tested positive at the weekend, I currently have her and us taking tests daily, has she been told to self isolate? Nope, carry on.
Its all a complete farce.
My wifes work closed their bodyshop last week cos the whole department tested positive, a few of the salesmen positive tested, her manager tested positive, did they shut down? Did they tell everybody to isolate? Nope, carry on, everything's fine.
My daughter was with somebody who tested positive at the weekend, I currently have her and us taking tests daily, has she been told to self isolate? Nope, carry on.
Its all a complete farce.
They need to drastically reduce the amount of days people have to isolate for, because nobody wants to or has the mental strength to do 10 days.
It should be 5 days tops, with the proviso that that is with a negative test or two negatives in a row to get out.
It's all a farce. So isolation is eventually going to have to go out of the window
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The mystery at the heart of the National Health Service
Millions of patients did not turn up during the pandemic. When will they finally do so? And how ill will they be?
It is midday in Milton Keynes, and a young woman is coming round after surgery on her vocal cords. Her breathing was controlled during the operation, so she is woken carefully, surrounded by blue-scrubbed medics. A chronic smoker, she issues a series of hacking coughs, attempting to clear built-up phlegm—and the medics are once more exposed to any illnesses she may be carrying.
Throat surgery is known by a newly popular acronym: it is an agp, or Aerosol-Generating Procedure. The entire point of ear, nose and throat surgery, says Hamid Manji, Milton Keynes University Hospital’s clinical director for surgery, is to “mess around with that airway mucosa, be it pharyngeal, be it nasal or in this case vocal”. That releases viruses, which is a problem during a pandemic.
Lots of this sort of surgery stopped last year. Now theatres are deep-cleaned between procedures, and patients must isolate and take a covid-19 test before arriving. The result is an enormous backlog. Across England, and in all specialisms, more than 5.1m operations are waiting to be carried out, the longest list since records began. And the waits are increasingly lengthy: nearly 400,000 of these operations have been planned for more than a year, up from 1,500-odd before the pandemic.
Vaccination is going to be mandatory to do anything.
It'll be mandatory in all but name.
But that probably has to be done to make sure people get it.
The 10 days I had to isolate were a living hell and im somebody that LOVES staying in.
Dont smoke, dont drink, dont eat butter, never fry food, never eat chocolate.
Found this quite an amazing chart - 30 year lag between measures re smoking being reflected in mortality
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