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Professor Harris, a virologist at Leeds University said on BBC that universities offered to help get the testing numbers up using currently closed labs TWO weeks ago, had no reply from Hancock or Public Health England . WOW
Here in NZ there has been a massive spike in Covid19 related deaths the current total is one a 76 yr old woman with underlying health issues. My friends wife is a senior nursing manager at Auckland Hospital were currently there is one elderly patient in ICU who has tested positive for Covid19 coincidentally is recovering from surgery. The country is currently in lock down day 9, the link is a few days old from Australia.
Good luck with a speedy recovery to you and Dalenumber2 and anyone else who has symptoms.
Isolation is also a problem for some so as others have alluded to on here this board can be used for any user who needs help in the coming weeks. Next week is 2 of 12. There is a long way to go yet if you listen to all the current advice.
While the focus of attention has been on the NHS, the care sector has been largely overlooked. While there have been delays and problems in getting PPE into hospitals, care homes are at the far end of the queue for the provision of such equipment despite caring for some of the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Add into this that, compared to the NHS, the sector is reliant on low/minimum paid staff, often on an agency basis, and operates from facilities that are intended to be sociable rather than providing space to provide for social distancing, never mind quarantining.
Despite clear evidence that the sector is much less prepared and able to respond to the current circumstances, the government now appears ready to pass laws requiring care homes to accept new or returning residents without any test to confirm whether such residents have Covid-19. The implication of this is that the lives of all residents in a care home that receives new/returning residents are at significant risk, and the unprepared staff with no/limited PPE and no training in its effective use will pick up Covid from residents and pass it out into their communities.
We have already seen reports where the army in Spain has entered care homes to find residents dead in their beds. Couldn’t happen here? If the care sector is not properly supported and is forced to take on roles that they are clearly not designed and resourced to provide, as someone whose family is involved in looking after the affairs of a care home resident, I wouldn’t bet against it.
In this excellent article Peter Hitchins has this to say "So do not be surprised by anything. After last week, can we rule anything out? This new Stasi society has a horrifying level of support."
Having read 20 odd pages on this thread I agree with him. By the way he also had this to say just in case you miss it.
"Just you wait till you get the bill, in increased taxes, inflation and devastated savings."
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