COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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PHE have updated tonight

The NHS health risk groups are all told to start distancing themselves

This group includes those who are:

  • aged 70 or older (regardless of medical conditions)
  • under 70 with an underlying health condition listed below (ie anyone instructed to get a flu jab as an adult each year on medical grounds):
    • chronic (long-term) respiratory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema or bronchitis
    • chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
    • chronic kidney disease
    • chronic liver disease, such as hepatitis
    • chronic neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), a learning disability or cerebral palsy
    • diabetes
    • problems with your spleen – for example, sickle cell disease or if you have had your spleen removed
    • a weakened immune system as the result of conditions such as HIV and AIDS, or medicines such as steroid tablets or chemotherapy
    • being seriously overweight (a BMI of 40 or above)
  • those who are pregnant
Note: there are some clinical conditions which put people at even higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19. If you are in this category, next week the NHS in England will directly contact you with advice the more stringent measures you should take in order to keep yourself and others safe. For now, you should rigorously follow the social distancing advice in full, outlined below.

People falling into this group are those who may be at particular risk due to complex health problems such as:

  • People who have received an organ transplant and remain on ongoing immunosuppression medication
  • People with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy or radiotherapy
  • People with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia who are at any stage of treatment
  • People with severe chest conditions such as cystic fibrosis or severe asthma (requiring hospital admissions or courses of steroid tablets)
  • People with severe diseases of body systems, such as severe kidney disease (dialysis)

What is social distancing?
Social distancing measures are steps you can take to reduce the social interaction between people. This will help reduce the transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19).

They are:

  1. Avoid contact with someone who is displaying symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19). These symptoms include high temperature and/or new and continuous cough;
  2. Avoid non-essential use of public transport, varying your travel times to avoid rush hour, when possible; 3.Work from home, where possible. Your employer should support you to do this. Please refer to employer guidance for more information;
  3. Avoid large gatherings, and gatherings in smaller public spaces such as pubs, cinemas, restaurants, theatres, bars, clubs
  4. Avoid gatherings with friends and family. Keep in touch using remote technology such as phone, internet, and social media.
  5. Use telephone or online services to contact your GPor other essential services.
Everyone should be trying to follow these measures as much as is pragmatic.

For those who are over 70, have an underlying health condition or are pregnant, we strongly advise you to follow the above measures as much as you can, and to significantly limit your face-to-face interaction with friends and family if possible.

This advice is likely to be in place for some weeks.
 
Re over 70s and high risk group, there appeared to be an exemption for going out to exercise. Presumably that means dog walking is still allowed, subject to common sense restrictions?

Anyone seen anything about this?

In Tenerife ( I know as I have friends there) everyone has to self isolate for 14 days. One person can go to a food shop or chemist. They can walk a dog but only in their vicinity, not a long walk. They can go to a hospital visit for themselves. Police are checking ID to ensure they are complying and not straying too far. Everything else is closed. A woman went for a swim in her complexes pool and a copper stripped off, jumped in and dragged her out. She was taken away in handcuffs.

Here it may get more stringent but if people have no relatives then they can take the dog for a shit and buy food. They are asking others to do it for them but some people have no one.
 
But can leukemia go undiagnosed? Sorry but i don't have a lot of information about this. Shouldn't the boy have felt something more serious symptom-wise than just coronavirus/
Friend had a chest infection in January and they only then discovered leukaemia and that meant he couldn't have invasive treatment. He died last month.
 
The antibody test is nearly ready apparantly. This was alluded to in today's news conference.
This is the most important thing in fighting this disease (as a vaccine won't be ready till December at the earliest).
Virus stats can properly be determined and blood donated by survivors can be converted to plasma for injection into the seriously ill. A technique that has worked to some degree for previous serious viral infections.
 
The antibody test is nearly ready apparantly. This was alluded to in today's news conference.
This is the most important thing in fighting this disease (as a vaccine won't be ready till December at the earliest).
Virus stats can properly be determined and blood donated by survivors can be converted to plasma for injection into the seriously ill. A technique that has worked for previous serious viral infections.
In theory that is ok but their are many conditions that stop you from giving blood
 
I was going to post this myself. You can imagine why they didn't show this graph in the PM press conferences can't you. That is just mind numbingly terrible, although frankly, not remotely surprising. I've been saying all along they've been lying about the mitigation strategy aiming to keep patient numbers below treatment capacity. Well there's the stark truth of it.
but are they still lying to you?
 
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