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@karen7

Can you confirm if this sounds like it?

My sister is convinced my mum had this in December.

Thought it was a bad chest infection, sweating loads, bed bound, sore throat. Sneezed a little bit not a key symptom of what she had.

Doctor thought it was a chest infection as she was coughing so much but they couldn’t diagnose properly.

My mum’s young and healthy. She’s only 21 years older than me so under 50 and I’ve just been skiing with her.

At the time she said she had a bad chest infection to us lot but we’re now questioning it.

My step dad slept in another room due to how bad it was and the doctor was actually called out as he was worried.
 
Gelsons Dad said:
Well this is the explanation which is "on the record" from the head of the NHS.
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I know, hence why I was explaining the likely primary actual reason. They are obviously not going to officially announce to everyone that we are in this sort of dilemma. The same statements were made during some of the outbreaks I saw in poorer countries during my work with MSF (which scales to larger, wealthy countries when their health systems are being threatened with relative catastrophic collapse).
 
Ban-jani said:
@karen7

Can you confirm if this sounds like it?

My sister is convinced my mum had this in December.

Thought it was a bad chest infection, sweating loads, bed bound, sore throat. Sneezed a little bit not a key symptom of what she had.

Doctor thought it was a chest infection as she was coughing so much but they couldn’t diagnose properly.

My mum’s young and healthy. She’s only 21 years older than me so under 50 and I’ve just been skiing with her.

At the time she said she had a bad chest infection to us lot but we’re now questioning it.

My step dad slept in another room due to how bad it was and the doctor was actually called out as he was worried.
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Might be worth checking with the doctor is he developed symptoms after if your mum was coughing that much during the consultation due to this being the most recorded route of transmission in the early stages of the outbreak as they weren't wearing any PPEs
 
SebastianBlue said:
That is *an* explanation, mate. It’s likely not the primary reason, as I have described in my post. The resistance to testing health workers will likely continue beyond increased availability of testing, even if the official word is that more testing will be available to health workers.

This has happened with previous larger scale outbreaks — unfortunately, I have seen it firsthand.
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Uffa said:
Nice interview with an anaesthetist in Turin (which is not Lombardy) from yesterday, might be mildly interesting. He speaks calmly and I'd say he's not particularly panic-inducing.
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Yep, the guy in this interview said he'd heard about some of his colleagues who work full-time on covid who are refusing to get tested while asymptomatic.
 
Ban-jani said:
@karen7

Can you confirm if this sounds like it?

My sister is convinced my mum had this in December.

Thought it was a bad chest infection, sweating loads, bed bound, sore throat. Sneezed a little bit not a key symptom of what she had.

Doctor thought it was a chest infection as she was coughing so much but they couldn’t diagnose properly.

My mum’s young and healthy. She’s only 21 years older than me so under 50 and I’ve just been skiing with her.

At the time she said she had a bad chest infection to us lot but we’re now questioning it.

My step dad slept in another room due to how bad it was and the doctor was actually called out as he was worried.
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That's what I have.

Edit with a headache added.
 
Boris,everyone must do their bit not to spread the virus

Massive increase in testing plans

Schools were slow to spread the disease because of the younger age groups not being at much danger but today the advice is to close schools to most children

Key workers children need to be looked after so they can go to work
 
creditunionhero said:
Just got back from my in laws, every pub I have passed is open with people inside??.

Why didn't the gov just tell them to close.
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Crazy and started today’s announcement with saying about advising people not to go pubs etc. CLOSE the bastard places
 
Boris says the scientific advice has been that closing schools would have had little effect on slowing the spread. Then next sentence says we feel the time is right to apply downward pressure on the curve so we’re closing schools. But I thought it has little effect? This is nothing other than reactionary. Reacting to the useless plan they had to begin with and trying to make a u-turn on our scientific advice appear like all part of the plan.
 
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