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If you have concerns DN2, give your surgery a call. Your GP should call you back for a consultation. They can even do breathing examinations by phone now (won't be as good as a stethoscope but still better than nowt).
Thanks and my GP is phoning me this afternoon. Thankfully my breathing is ok so far.
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.
After the symptoms started 15 days ago or do NHS111 told me to isolate for 7 days, by day 5 I started feeling a bit better then on day 8 till now I have been in bed floored, was in touch with my GP and 111 again and am now having Antibiotics and Steroids. Lungs sound like they are full of marbles, had to send my dog to my daughters as I couldn't get up to feed her. Am pretty sure it's pneumonia but if it is a by product of the virus I won't know without a test, unless I'm admitted I won't get one until the antibody test is rolled out...The GP (who has been terrific) says it could be between 3 and 6 months before I'm fully recovered, the breathing is crap, the coughing is bloody awful and the pluracy like pains in the back means little sleep....Sore throat has gone and headaches also have stopped. It's shitty it's boring as hell but it's better than lots of people out there who haven't been so lucky.....Stay safe and well and get as much Vit C down as you can, best wishes for a speedy recovery ......
That sounds horrendous.
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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