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It started off mild for me then hit me like a brick wall. Was off work for a month, and took almost 3 months to get back to my old self. I’m guessing I got a fairly high viral load though from a punter at work, seeing as I was literally only at work or at home in the 14 days beforehand.

This is the problem. This here. So the “wEe NipPy sToLe oUr PiNtS” patter can away and shite. I’m all for vT’s trademarked ‘Baton to the face’ . (I know the Record is a rag)

Chairman Mao, the embodiment of

I must admit I am somewhat concerned we have went from 0 inpatients to 1/3rd of the peak number of inpatients we had at the height of it in a matter of a few weeks.

No they’re not

People are ill-informed at best, without being impolite. The loss of sense of smell I had was absolute, not just like a cold. Its an educational thing like anything else. Bit like folk turning up at A&E with a sore knee they’ve had for years. Interestingly (for me anyway ) the virus itself doesn’t go after the smell/taste receptors but actually inflames the nerves which carry the signals to the brain.

We also need to have test that doesn't give out a significant amount of false negatives. Aye the test is a bit shit, 30% chance of false negatives and something like 20% of false positives. I’ve seen folk in ITU who’ve had half a dozen negative tests and yet the CT scan of their chest is textbook Covid. I know which I trust, pity we can’t just scan the entire population

It would possibly work. A lot of it would depend on airflow too, the better the airflow the less chance of virus hovering in the air. No-one really knows enough how it’ll work until we try it.

The principle reason for the 2m rule is that most of the research suggests by 1.5m the vast majority (99%) of any respiratory droplets has hit the deck. The 2m thing is just extra caution. Obviously this is null and void if someone is coughing, sneezing etc but it more relates to the virus particles people are just regularly breathing out. Until we have widescale mass testing we can’t work out how many people are infected and until we can work that out then I don’t fancy being closer than 2m to strangers. I’ve had it once and I don’t fancy putting any potential immunity to the test... edit to add: again the research suggests that you would have to spend more than 15 minutes within the 2m area to increase your risk. Just brushing past someone in Asda isn’t going to give you it unless they cough in your face.

There’s no sense at all in having NHS staff that work closely with ?covid patients using this app. At the height of it I think we were seeing 50+ a day. They’ll be no-one left if it comes back in a second wave if we all have to isolate

I’ll think I’ll trust my years of experience and training over a tweet from a Tory thank you

Even with that article, it does not mention anywhere that they closed it due to deep cleaning. Which is not something they would do anyway. To shut an A&E means either you have too many patients presenting with symptoms, and/or there are too many patients with COVID in the hospital to have any more admitted. Either way it means it’s not safe to have folk turning up at the door. 10+ years working in an Emergency Department, I know what I’m talking about.

You don’t understand how hospitals work do you m9? People tend to you know, come in to A&E unwell, then get admitted, die, or are discharged. They don’t come in to hospital, get to the ward, get Covid then go to A&E. Nice source too, a Spanish blog, which on reading doesn’t mention anything about the UK Health Service.

If they are having to close A&E, that tells you that most of the infections are coming from without the hospital.

Now he’s using loopholes in their own fucking laws. Get this c**t in the sea.

The lying weasel fucker.

The utter charlatan c***s. They make a mockery of myself and my collegues both alive and who have died from this. I am beyond furious.

I’m not the one with the answers. I’m not paid for that. However I am frontline NHS staff working within an Emergency Department. I have seen countless patients over the last 2 months who I know aren’t going to make it, and they are scared, they are alone, they are often fully aware they are dying. I’m pretty hardened to death, but this is slowly wearing me out. We came incredibly close to being overwhelmed in some areas and if the NHS is overwhelmed, thousands will die because we will not have the beds, staff or medicine for them. As it stands Lockdown is everything at the minute, we have limited ability to control the spread of this, no treatment and no vaccine.

Must admit Todd_is_god is making a roaring c**t of himself on this thread.

I’m getting seconded to the NHS Louisa Jordan

The problem from what I have seen first hand is that this is not like a normal disease in that there is a generally slow progression. People when they are going to go downhill do it scarily fast. Case in point: I’ve seen person in mid 40’s coming in to ED with mild symptoms and no real underlying health issues and being dead in five days. The clinical picture seems to be days 1-10 to 12 of relatively mild illness, at that kind of 12 day mark people can go downhill terrifyingly rapidly. The problem is you don’t want to admit all those who are mildly ill on the basis they may get worse because you’ll run out of beds. Its a no-win situation really.

Re: Priti Patel

Sadly its probably another 2 weeks till we hit the peak. Then its going to be a while up there until things start to come down hopefully. Far too many fuckwits out in the sun today though

Radiographer. Yeah we are the same: within 2 metres of any patient = PPE of mask, gloves and apron. In any high-risk places like ITU I have to put on 2 surgical gowns, 3 sets of gloves, air-fed respirator hood and a long waterproof apron on the top. Sweating like f**k after about 3 seconds