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Coronavirus - the new strain XXIV

Yes, understood your point, which seems pragmatic. Mine was that the problem of care staff recruitment, retention etc. has not been addressed in the last decade, which doesn't augur well for it being resolved now, when the government seems bent on facing down the demands of qualified nursing staff.
 
Wearing a mask if ill is sensible advice - minister

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he fully supported the guidance, issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

The advice, in place for months in England, was reiterated by the UKHSA as schools and workplaces return after the Christmas break.

[I fear the damage has already been done]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64151557
 
'Confident there is funding to cope' but the system won't cope. How's that work, then? Who and where is the blame going to be shifted to?
 
Rishi Sunak accused of misleading public over emergency NHS funding
Exclusive: Hospitals and councils have not received £300m in funding promised four months ago to free up beds

“The stark reality is local systems needed that money months ago for it to make any difference ahead of this winter. NHS leaders have frequently told us that in order to use the funding to expand capacity in the NHS over winter as intended they need this funding much further in advance – ideally up to six months before.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society...cused-misleading-public-emergency-nhs-funding
 
The post Christmas update to 2/1. A bit futile to try to read anything into these from what we've heard about the hospitals recently. Let's hope it's peaked though...

 
gavreid said:
The post Christmas update to 2/1. A bit futile to try to read anything into these from what we've heard about the hospitals recently. Let's hope it's peaked though...

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Thanks for posting the graph. I agree that the timing of the data will just make it very difficult to interpret the graph, so we need to wait another week to see if the wave might be receding.

From your post #1387, the number of deaths at around 400 a week is scary again. Let alone the internal damage that medical reports say can occur even if you have no symptoms that results in Long Covid or damage to the blood that results in clotting when you have Covid or other infections.

I had been going to see my father in a 24 hour care home where masks were mandatory, but now they are not and the staff keep on asking if you want to take your mask off when visiting as if they want you to be maskless. So whilst we continue to wear masks when we visit, I do need to be more careful, i.e. visit less often, until I have some COVID protection. I have an antibody test in February to assess what the vaccinations over the past couple of months have given me some protection after the chemo and CAR T-Cell infusion wiping out any Covid protection in July 22.
 
"So when Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), made the rather modest suggestion that people should wear masks or stay home if they are poorly, you might have thought it would be uncontroversial [given that's it's been government advice continuously throughout the pandemic]. Not so.

The Daily Mail covered two-thirds of its front page with the screaming headline “Let’s not return to face mask madness”. The Tory MP Philip Davies raged: “The control freak socialists at UKHSA are never going to change.” What is it about masks that evokes such fury for rightwing media and politicians?"

https://www.theguardian.com/comment..._medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1672927987
 
After the lessons of the past three years you would think that any civilized society would mask up when indoors with a crowd during times at which community transmission was known to be high, whether flu, RSV, Covid or something else, with the exception of young children in school.

I feel like the far right has beaten the rest of society into submission regarding masks, and it’s pretty depressing that selfish science deniers should have such sway over society.
 
sean99 said:
After the lessons of the past three years you would think that any civilized society would mask up when indoors with a crowd during times at which community transmission was known to be high, whether flu, RSV, Covid or something else, with the exception of young children in school.

I feel like the far right has beaten the rest of society into submission regarding masks, and it’s pretty depressing that selfish science deniers should have such sway over society.
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But that's what the CHAOS is doing. It's taking away our civility and turning us into savages.
 
gavreid said:
"So when Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), made the rather modest suggestion that people should wear masks or stay home if they are poorly, you might have thought it would be uncontroversial [given that's it's been government advice continuously throughout the pandemic]. Not so.

The Daily Mail covered two-thirds of its front page with the screaming headline “Let’s not return to face mask madness”. The Tory MP Philip Davies raged: “The control freak socialists at UKHSA are never going to change.” What is it about masks that evokes such fury for rightwing media and politicians?"

https://www.theguardian.com/comment..._medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1672927987
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The old, vulnerable and poor will bear the brunt, tories doing their bit for Darwin.
 
Whatever this winter lurgy is has been way worse than covid for me, also seems like everywhere I go almost everyone is coughing and hacking with it.

I've had it a week and it is still exactly the same and I'm usually someone that brushes off anything respiratory related, I usually either don't catch it or just have one bad day with it.
 
matt j said:
Whatever this winter lurgy is has been way worse than covid for me, also seems like everywhere I go almost everyone is coughing and hacking with it.

I've had it a week and it is still exactly the same and I'm usually someone that brushes off anything respiratory related, I usually either don't catch it or just have one bad day with it.
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There has been a lot of RSV and Flu in the US, so likely also in the UK. Thankfully this year's flu shot is a good match for the circulating strains.
 
Almost 90% of people in China’s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top local official has said, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases.

Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, told a press conference that “as of January 6, 2023, the province’s Covid infection rate is 89%”.


With a population of 99.4 million, the figures suggest about 88.5 million people in Henan may now have been infected.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ters-new-phase-in-covid-fight-as-borders-open
 
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