COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

tres said:
Had to see an patient last week, at midnight, for an emergency admission.
They were deaf, could only lip-read and had covid. Which meant I couldn't wear a mask for much of the time, and had to use a stupid visor instead.
I can definitely say the visors do absolutely nothing. Feeling awful!
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I thought there were clear facemasks for dealing with deaf people?
 
Almost 2000 deaths this week, seems a lot for a “mild” version in spring. Hospitalisations seem to be dropping a bit though and case rate, isn’t even worth checking on dashboard anymore, sticking finger in air will be just as useful! will have to wait for ONS.

Ignoring it just means higher deaths than need be, minor inconveniences which wouldn’t really impact daily life (masks/WFH/air quality) just totally ignored either because it either reminds people covid is around or hurts economy. It’s not because it isn’t currently needed.

I would rather government followed the science still instead of following the big business leaders whom they have probably had a few “envelopes” from.
 
Hospitalisations have been at their highest rates since lockdown mk.1 which accounts for the high death rate sky high infection levels of a "mild" virus will still equal a large number of deaths. But we have to ignore live with it according to govt.
 
It does seem a bit surrealistic that we're being told we're on the back end of it/it's over, with the end of free testing, testing centres abandoned, figures only being supplied is it 4 days a week now? Oh yes and even the hospitals and doctor's surgeries being told to end socially spaced seating, though I would imagine will remain the only places where masks still required.
 
I heard a story on the news of someone being reinjected with covid just 20 days apart. If you really think a widescale reintroduction of mask wearing is going to spare you infection for the rest of your days then you are wrong.
 
Vern1961 said:
It does seem a bit surrealistic that we're being told we're on the back end of it/it's over, with the end of free testing, testing centres abandoned, figures only being supplied is it 4 days a week now? Oh yes and even the hospitals and doctor's surgeries being told to end socially spaced seating, though I would imagine will remain the only places where masks still required.
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It's virtually over at our hospital - NOT

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RossGReds said:
I heard a story on the news of someone being reinjected with covid just 20 days apart. If you really think a widescale reintroduction of mask wearing is going to spare you infection for the rest of your days then you are wrong.
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You might want to actually read the story, the first infection was Delta and the second 20 days later was omicron which can happen, people have been infected with both strain's at the same time.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Hospitalisations have been at their highest rates since lockdown mk.1 which accounts for the high death rate sky high infection levels of a "mild" virus will still equal a large number of deaths. But we have to ignore live with it according to govt.
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No they haven't, stop peddling duff information.
 
SmokeKingGun said:
Almost 2000 deaths this week, seems a lot for a “mild” version in spring. Hospitalisations seem to be dropping a bit though and case rate, isn’t even worth checking on dashboard anymore, sticking finger in air will be just as useful! will have to wait for ONS.

Ignoring it just means higher deaths than need be, minor inconveniences which wouldn’t really impact daily life (masks/WFH/air quality) just totally ignored either because it either reminds people covid is around or hurts economy. It’s not because it isn’t currently needed.

I would rather government followed the science still instead of following the big business leaders whom they have probably had a few “envelopes” from.
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Roughly 10k people die every week in the UK

Average age of covid death was consistently higher than pre-covid average age of death

The reporting of the number of deaths has been a standing joke throughout this ********
 
200sols said:
No they haven't, stop peddling duff information.
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Hospitalisations have been high though and some parts of the country has seen higher levels than any previous part of the pandemic - peak daily hospitalisations with COVID so far for 2022 for my district hospital were 2.78x higher than the peak in 2020 and number of patients in hospital with COVID isn't far behind the previous peak. However in comparison only half of those in hospital with COVID were there because of COVID compared to 70-80% back at similar levels in 2020. (It is causing some procedural nightmares though).

My local GP is still impacted by staff sickness, mostly due to COVID, including staff who've had to quit due to "long COVID" - they can't even handle emergency appointments currently.

On another note we had 2 people phone in sick with "COVID" today at work, from having no one off with it this week, both previously had COVID only about a month ago, though were obviously sick that time, I'm not entirely convinced they aren't playing it up this time around though but I might be wrong.

UTT said:
Roughly 10k people die every week in the UK

Average age of covid death was consistently higher than pre-covid average age of death

The reporting of the number of deaths has been a standing joke throughout this ********
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What are you actually saying here?
 
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Rroff said:
Hospitalisations have been high though and some parts of the country has seen higher levels than any previous part of the pandemic
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Which is not what he said, hospitalisations are still way down on the lockdown mk1 and people on ventilators are far lower.
 
200sols said:
Which is not what he said, hospitalisations are still way down on the lockdown mk1 and people on ventilators are far lower.
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How I remember it dealing with it but hopefully somebody might find the actual proper figures,
Lockdown 1 at our Stoke hospital had around 184 Covid patients at one time however around Feb 2021 we had around 330 Covid patients.
We now have 300 Covid patients in April 2022 however nobody in ICU and ventilators are down.
 
Children with Covid are now being told by schools that they have to attend unless they feel unwell, teachers are being told to put down respiratory problems and not covid on sick forms, seems the government are doing everything to make out covid is a non-event anymore.
 
Drukk said:
Children with Covid are now being told by schools that they have to attend unless they feel unwell, teachers are being told to put down respiratory problems and not covid on sick forms, seems the government are doing everything to make out covid is a non-event anymore.
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..or maybe just trying to let children actually have an uniterrupted education/normal childhood maybe ?
 
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