Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[grandjoeblue]

Surely larger NHS trusts should be able to provide PCR tests for their staff same day with 24 hour results?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Quick update … still testing negative on LFT after 6 or 7 days being poorly now ?? I’ve booked myself a PCR test now anyway

Sounds like Ebola mate. Take 2 paracetamol and a pint of Guinness. You’ll be back up and running in two days.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Sounds like Ebola mate. Take 2 paracetamol and a pint of Guinness. You’ll be back up and running in two days.

I don't care if you're bleeding from the eyes, get back to work!

 

[LinekersLegs]

Even with say half of these admissions being incidentals and the hope that less of them are severe than Delta that is large increases in volume to find beds and staffing to care for.

 

[tsubaki]

Surely larger NHS trusts should be able to provide PCR tests for their staff same day with 24 hour results?

TBF there is very little reason why the whole country doesn't have same-day PCR results. Parts of it do, but it should be universal.

 

[grandjoeblue]

TBF there is very little reason why the whole country doesn't have same-day PCR results. Parts of it do, but it should be universal.

Maybe its possible but that's much more difficult as you need huge lab capacity. Prioritising NHS tests seems a lot more straight forward to implement.

 

[COYBL25]

Surely larger NHS trusts should be able to provide PCR tests for their staff same day with 24 hour results?

Certainly at my missus place, they’re in the exact same boat as everyone else with PCR tests.

 

[tsubaki]

Maybe its possible but that's much more difficult as you need huge lab capacity. Prioritising NHS tests seems a lot more straight forward to implement.

we are in the middle of a global pandemic - we need huge lab capacity

 

[grandjoeblue]

we are in the middle of a global pandemic - we need huge lab capacity

Nowhere on earth can process millions of PCR tests same day. Where would you even get the lab technicians to process the tests? It's not really the number 1 priority either is it? Some people can isolate for a day or two.

 

[Nymzee]

lol

 

[tsubaki]

Nowhere on earth can process millions of PCR tests same day. Where would you even get the lab technicians to process the tests? It's not really the number 1 priority either is it? Some people can isolate for a day or two.

Where have you got "millions of PCR tests same day" from? Even with a healthy safety margin for a disease worse than Omicron we'd be talking about guaranteeing 250,000 - 350,000 tests could be done within 24 hours, which is not unrealistic a target.

As for number 1 priority - it is actually a big part of it; the country needs to start asking the question of whether this Government has learned and improved its response to this ongoing crisis. There is very little evidence to suggest that it has, and that really should concern far more people than it does. How many times do you want to go through this?

 

[grandjoeblue]

lol

Germany has had much much higher deaths than UK in December.

 

[tsubaki]

Germany has had much much higher deaths than UK in December.

... and less than the UK in August, September and October, and 60,000 less than us overall. This is despite their population being more than ours.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Where have you got "millions of PCR tests same day" from? Even with a healthy safety margin for a disease worse than Omicron we'd be talking about guaranteeing 250,000 - 350,000 tests could be done within 24 hours, which is not unrealistic a target.

As for number 1 priority - it is actually a big part of it; the country needs to start asking the question of whether this Government has learned and improved its response to this ongoing crisis. There is very little evidence to suggest that it has, and that really should concern far more people than it does. How many times do you want to go through this?

Tedious from you, same nonsense about test and trace all the time. The UK Testing capacity is better than almost all of the EU. The UK PCR max capacity is stated to be 900,000 and well over 500,000 per day are done regularly.

The simple fact is turning around PCR tests for the general public within 24 hours just isn't a huge priority? People are meant to isolate after taking a PCR test until they get their results anyway.

My suggestion was that they should prioritise NHS which is obviously an easy win that would help immediately.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Germany has had much much higher deaths than UK in December.

Mainland Europe treating their citizens like the CCP do yet criticise our leaders lol

Weapons they are.