COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[BlueAnorak]

As a matter of fact I can tell you there were patients with Covid in non Covid wards in Tameside Hospitals in September. I picked my pal up from his shift early in that month and he was fuming, the cases had multiplied rapidly and patients were being placed in any available bed, he'd had Covid himself in March, he got mild symptoms but his wife became very ill but fortunately got better. His protection then as now was a standard issue mask, nothing medically specialised, just bog standard issue. He worked in Patient transfer and now empties the medical bins, he's transported quite a lot of Covid patients and seen some of them die quite quickly. There is a lot of anxiety amongst his colleagues, not a great situation to be in.

No change there then.
I must have had 20 relatives die in that place over the years. At least 10 were early deaths down to poor practice.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Boston back over 500 again.

 

[Healdplace]

Testing up from 196, 938 finding 13, 430 cases yesterday.

To 282, 857 finding 16, 170 cases today.

This is at least partly why these big jumps keep happening.

I do not understand why these have to swing all over the place as much as they do.

Of course if you do 86, 000 more tests it is not a huge shock if you find more positives. But we really need a little more day to day consistency.

The % positive number is key here.

And that FALLS from 6. 8 yesterday to 5.7 today. But the media likely will not notice that important fact as raw numbers have gone up a lot will be the headline.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Testing up from 196, 938 finding 13, 430 cases yesterday.

To 282, 857 finding 16, 170 cases. today.

This is at least partly why these big jumps keep happening.

I do not understand why these have to swing all over the place as much as they do.

Yeah but people only go for tests when they get symptoms or get pinged by the NHS app.
Mass Lateral flow tests are being rolled out to workplaces of danger. That needs to include schools.

 

[blueparrot]

Yeah but people only go for tests when they get symptoms or get pinged by the NHS app.
Mass Lateral flow tests are being rolled out to workplaces of danger. That needs to include schools.

Not just those reasons. now, my,wife, son and daughter have all had tests in the last week, all 3 for different reasons, one a student coming home, one works in a hospital, one a random test when she went to the dentist.

 

[Healdplace]

Agreed BlueAnorak but they really should start telling the media the % positive rate as it is more informative to watch day to day than these numbers jumping all over the place.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

No change there then.
I must have had 20 relatives die in that place over the years. At least 10 were early deaths down to poor practice.

People at the Trust had worked really hard in recent years to shed the Shameside reputation but it sounds like it’s gone backwards again.

 

[andyhinch]

All pubs and restaurants back open in Alderley today, not many in and lots of social distancing but it was good to see a bit of normality back.

 

[Healdplace]

And as expected the BBC on their coverage of the 5 pm Boris conference on live mention the big rise in cases but no mention of the massive jump in testing that means there were fewer positive tests today than yesterday. Which deserves at least a mention.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

Assuming the new vaccine which is to be given in stages to the population of the UK [if there is enough to go around and if it is effective], then when can we ditch the face masks? Will it be a kept instruction until the last person is injected or will masks remain a legal requirement for those people at the back end of the queue only?