Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Potentially no tourism until 2021 in either country too. Imagine what that will do to certain areas / regions.
Toast
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Dodged the ITV question on who will take charge is Boris isn't fit too.
Gove just said the 'extension' of testing. That'll be of interest to York
York Teaching Hospital
A leaked email has received the dire state of NHS readiness for the coronavirus crisis under the lack of preparation by Boris Johnson’s government.
The email, sent by the Medical Director for Professional Standards of York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – which manages eight hospitals over an area of 3,400 square miles and including Scarborough, Bridlington and Hull – makes grim reading.
It reveals:
York Teaching Hospital
A leaked email has received the dire state of NHS readiness for the coronavirus crisis under the lack of preparation by Boris Johnson’s government.
The email, sent by the Medical Director for Professional Standards of York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – which manages eight hospitals over an area of 3,400 square miles and including Scarborough, Bridlington and Hull – makes grim reading.
It reveals:
- that the government has told hospitals not to test staff for the coronavirus, in spite of the continuing lack of personal protective equipment
- the national inadequacy of testing capacity
- that Boris Johnson’s claim that testing capacity was ten thousand rising 25,000 is in reality 7,000 rising to just 15,000
- that the trust’s entire network had no testing capacity whatever – and only hoped to have capacity from this week
- that its outsourced testing to Leeds is experiencing ‘significant delays’ that are expected to get worse
- that even if capacity comes online, the trust only expects to have ‘limited capacity’ that might allow it to test critical front-line staff ‘by exception’
- that trusts hope to test only staff already ill or self-isolating and in order to get them back to work – and not to prevent ‘well’ infected staff spreading the virus to their colleagues and patients
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I wonder who won't answer any of the questions if Michael Gove gets sick too.
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He's not answering any of the actual questions here mate.
Bobbing and weaving.
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oh you can guarantee some of the hipsters on here were watching.
Watching Gove makes me wish it was Boris there.
And I can’t stand Boris.
And I can’t stand Boris.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Hope at least one of these treatments works
When will the NHS get the necessary equipment?
Advice on protective gear for staff was rejected owing to cost
Advice on protective gear for NHS staff was rejected owing to cost
Exclusive: DoH dismissed call for eye protection – now needed for coronavirus – in 2017
Harry Davies
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Fri 27 Mar 2020 15.04 GMTLast modified on Fri 27 Mar 2020 16.10 GMT
Guardian documents may help explain the shortage of protective gear in the NHS that is currently hampering efforts by medical staff to manage the coronavirus outbreak. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images
The Department of Health rejected high-level medical advice about providing NHS staff with certain protective equipment during an influenza pandemic because stockpiling it would be too expensive, the Guardian can reveal.
Documents show that officials working under former health secretary Jeremy Hunt told medical advisers three years ago to “reconsider” a formal recommendation that eye protection should be provided to all healthcare professionals who have close contact with pandemic influenza patients.
The expert advice was watered down after an “economic assessment” found a medical recommendation about providing visors or safety glasses to all hospital, ambulance and social care staff who have close contact with pandemic influenza patients would “substantially increase” the costs of stockpiling.
The documents may help explain a devastating shortage of protective gear in the NHS that is hampering efforts by medical staff to manage the Covid-19 virus pandemic.
Doctors are threatening to quit the profession unless they are properly equipped, and NHS trusts across England have been asking schools to donate science goggles due to the shortages, the Guardian revealed on Wednesday. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has acknowledged “challenges” with the supply of protective material to NHS staff and has drafted in the army to get supplies to frontline workers.
Advice on protective gear for staff was rejected owing to cost
Advice on protective gear for NHS staff was rejected owing to cost
Exclusive: DoH dismissed call for eye protection – now needed for coronavirus – in 2017
Harry Davies
@harryfoxdavies
Fri 27 Mar 2020 15.04 GMTLast modified on Fri 27 Mar 2020 16.10 GMT
Guardian documents may help explain the shortage of protective gear in the NHS that is currently hampering efforts by medical staff to manage the coronavirus outbreak. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images
The Department of Health rejected high-level medical advice about providing NHS staff with certain protective equipment during an influenza pandemic because stockpiling it would be too expensive, the Guardian can reveal.
Documents show that officials working under former health secretary Jeremy Hunt told medical advisers three years ago to “reconsider” a formal recommendation that eye protection should be provided to all healthcare professionals who have close contact with pandemic influenza patients.
The expert advice was watered down after an “economic assessment” found a medical recommendation about providing visors or safety glasses to all hospital, ambulance and social care staff who have close contact with pandemic influenza patients would “substantially increase” the costs of stockpiling.
The documents may help explain a devastating shortage of protective gear in the NHS that is hampering efforts by medical staff to manage the Covid-19 virus pandemic.
Doctors are threatening to quit the profession unless they are properly equipped, and NHS trusts across England have been asking schools to donate science goggles due to the shortages, the Guardian revealed on Wednesday. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has acknowledged “challenges” with the supply of protective material to NHS staff and has drafted in the army to get supplies to frontline workers.
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When will the NHS get the necessary equipment?
Advice on protective gear for staff was rejected owing to cost
Advice on protective gear for NHS staff was rejected owing to cost
Exclusive: DoH dismissed call for eye protection – now needed for coronavirus – in 2017
Harry Davies
@harryfoxdavies
Fri 27 Mar 2020 15.04 GMTLast modified on Fri 27 Mar 2020 16.10 GMT
Guardian documents may help explain the shortage of protective gear in the NHS that is currently hampering efforts by medical staff to manage the coronavirus outbreak. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images
The Department of Health rejected high-level medical advice about providing NHS staff with certain protective equipment during an influenza pandemic because stockpiling it would be too expensive, the Guardian can reveal.
Documents show that officials working under former health secretary Jeremy Hunt told medical advisers three years ago to “reconsider” a formal recommendation that eye protection should be provided to all healthcare professionals who have close contact with pandemic influenza patients.
The expert advice was watered down after an “economic assessment” found a medical recommendation about providing visors or safety glasses to all hospital, ambulance and social care staff who have close contact with pandemic influenza patients would “substantially increase” the costs of stockpiling.
The documents may help explain a devastating shortage of protective gear in the NHS that is hampering efforts by medical staff to manage the Covid-19 virus pandemic.
Doctors are threatening to quit the profession unless they are properly equipped, and NHS trusts across England have been asking schools to donate science goggles due to the shortages, the Guardian revealed on Wednesday. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has acknowledged “challenges” with the supply of protective material to NHS staff and has drafted in the army to get supplies to frontline workers.
Mate, a friendly word of advice. Your posts in this thread are increasingly becoming more Bot like in their appearance and frequency. Many have commented that we have a Political thread re the outbreak, so please post them there, not in this one.
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