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Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 31, 2020, 03:23:55 pmAnyone know if this includes the deaths at home that the ONS announced earlier today?The figures from England were all deaths in hospitals.
Anyone know if this includes the deaths at home that the ONS announced earlier today?
Quote from: ChrisBx on March 31, 2020, 03:33:18 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 31, 2020, 03:23:55 pmAnyone know if this includes the deaths at home that the ONS announced earlier today?The figures from England were all deaths in hospitals. They said they were going to include all deaths hospital and home from today so to expect a jump in figures
Very sobering and moving comment on Twitter this morning from a front line NHS worker.Said that there should never have been the need to see NHS staff as heroes. You only need heroes when everything is going worng. If there had been proper planning and preparation, the NHS staff could just simply be doing their job professionally. Instead, they are being asked to go into the front line with utterly sub-standard PPE. And many of them WILL die as a result of that.Like I keep saying, when this is over, there are some very, very serious questions to be asked on what the f**k was going on in Govt throughout February.
6825 deaths (broadly up until 31st March) divided by the 1.79m total cases estimated by Imperial College study would = a total mortality rate of 0.38%.
Very sobering and moving comment on Twitter this morning from a front line NHS worker.Said that.... they are being asked to go into the front line with utterly sub-standard PPE. And many of them WILL die as a result of that.
My daughter works on the respiratory ward at DRI (now covid ward) which is full) and has been wearing full PPE all day apart from her lunch. Her face is red raw and she barely had the strength to eat her tea before retiring for bed.The wife is going to start working in the mortuary at Roth Gen instead of her usual clinical audit job.All leave has been cancelled until June and the Easter bank holidays have been cancelled and are now normal days. The next few weeks are going to see huge numbers and if you are still thinking this is not serious then you are must be crackers!
BRR.I'm quoting the editor of The Lancet. He said precisely this at the weekend.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30727-3/fulltextAs I understand it, the reason why medics with substandard PPE are at particular risk is connected with the viral load. Our bodies are totally unprepared for CV-19. So when we get it, our immune system has to learn from scratch how to respond. And if you come into contact with a lot of virus, very quickly, the virus can do it's damage before your immune system figures out how to respond.That appears to be the reason why frontline medics have been hard hit all round the world. Not providing suitable PPE for them, when you've had two months to prepare is an absolute outrage.
Quote from: knockers on March 31, 2020, 10:18:35 pmMy daughter works on the respiratory ward at DRI (now covid ward) which is full) and has been wearing full PPE all day apart from her lunch. Her face is red raw and she barely had the strength to eat her tea before retiring for bed.The wife is going to start working in the mortuary at Roth Gen instead of her usual clinical audit job.All leave has been cancelled until June and the Easter bank holidays have been cancelled and are now normal days. The next few weeks are going to see huge numbers and if you are still thinking this is not serious then you are must be crackers!Can I just pass on my thanks to your daughter and your wife for the fantastic work they are doing for all us at this time .I cannot thank them enough for the sacrifice and work they are doing in such unprecedented times .
Michael Gove said at the presser today the reason they had not been able to ramp up testing was due to lack of the chemical agents used in the test.British Chemical Agency said - news to us gov, there's plenty - and if you wanted more why didn't you mention it when we spoke to the business minister today.https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1245046542974750720
Quote from: tyke1962 on March 31, 2020, 10:33:31 pmQuote from: knockers on March 31, 2020, 10:18:35 pmMy daughter works on the respiratory ward at DRI (now covid ward) which is full) and has been wearing full PPE all day apart from her lunch. Her face is red raw and she barely had the strength to eat her tea before retiring for bed.The wife is going to start working in the mortuary at Roth Gen instead of her usual clinical audit job.All leave has been cancelled until June and the Easter bank holidays have been cancelled and are now normal days. The next few weeks are going to see huge numbers and if you are still thinking this is not serious then you are must be crackers!Can I just pass on my thanks to your daughter and your wife for the fantastic work they are doing for all us at this time .I cannot thank them enough for the sacrifice and work they are doing in such unprecedented times .Seconded. I can see the Sheffield Hallamshire from the window as I type this. Everything across the city is so quite and peaceful. And in there, there is a cohort of brilliant and hardworking professionals fighting a war on our behalf. It's a very humbling thought.
It’s not right FiloEveryone starting from the bus driver taking NHS staff from the racecourse car park up to the DRI should be issued with the correct PPE