Local lockdowns in the UK
#2551
Join Date: May 2014
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phone 119 for advice on whether you too need to isolate, though my non-medical understanding is that the rules say that only the person traced needs to isolate, their household being contacts of contacts rather than direct contacts, and so don’t need to isolate unless anyone in your household tests positive.
on consideration of the differences within our un-United kingdom, I may also be inclined to also ask 119 (NHS England) if your OH needs to isolate on the last day of the self isolation if she can produce a negative test that day.
on consideration of the differences within our un-United kingdom, I may also be inclined to also ask 119 (NHS England) if your OH needs to isolate on the last day of the self isolation if she can produce a negative test that day.
She called BA to give the good news, and they were saying that Scottish NHS found one positive that had been on her flight and are basically asking the whole flight to self isolate, including the crews.
#2552
Join Date: May 2010
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Of the 2,762,775 lateral flow tests that were carried out on secondary pupils, just 1,324 were positive, according to the first official figures.
A detailed analysis by Prof Jon Deeks, an expert in biostatistics at Birmingham University, has found that the number of positive cases among pupils are far lower than ministers expected."
#2553
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Government are back to form with the mixed messaging and goalpost moving..
——-Government considering 'COVID certificates' to let people to attend sporting events
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said that coronavirus "certificates" are being considered as a way of getting people back to larger events "in significant numbers".
"From June 21, if all goes to plan in the way that I described, we hope to get people back in significant numbers," he told Sky News.
"We're piloting the different things that will enable that to happen - clearly it will have to be done in a COVID-secure way.
"You would expect, and we will be testing these things, things like one-way systems, things like masks, things like hand hygiene and everything else.
"Another thing that we are considering is a COVID certification, and we will be testing whether we can use COVID certification to help facilitate the return of sports."
He added that final decisions had yet to be made and that he was working with Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, who is leading a review on the issue.
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What happened to all rules gone June21, nightclubs open, no more distancing or masks possibly until winter?
Now to go to a football match it might be one way systems, reduced capacity and wearing a bloody mask outside despite having been vaccinated. If there is one thing I despise about this government during this pandemic (besides breaking their own rules), it’s their constant moving of the goalposts. Are they sending mixed messages here so they can bring in only one or two of these things and it seem like a “win” compared to all of it? I wish the media would hold them account to their prior words.
——-Government considering 'COVID certificates' to let people to attend sporting events
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said that coronavirus "certificates" are being considered as a way of getting people back to larger events "in significant numbers".
"From June 21, if all goes to plan in the way that I described, we hope to get people back in significant numbers," he told Sky News.
"We're piloting the different things that will enable that to happen - clearly it will have to be done in a COVID-secure way.
"You would expect, and we will be testing these things, things like one-way systems, things like masks, things like hand hygiene and everything else.
"Another thing that we are considering is a COVID certification, and we will be testing whether we can use COVID certification to help facilitate the return of sports."
He added that final decisions had yet to be made and that he was working with Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, who is leading a review on the issue.
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What happened to all rules gone June21, nightclubs open, no more distancing or masks possibly until winter?
Now to go to a football match it might be one way systems, reduced capacity and wearing a bloody mask outside despite having been vaccinated. If there is one thing I despise about this government during this pandemic (besides breaking their own rules), it’s their constant moving of the goalposts. Are they sending mixed messages here so they can bring in only one or two of these things and it seem like a “win” compared to all of it? I wish the media would hold them account to their prior words.
#2554
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At a high school in West London yesterday there were ~564 tests and 1 positive. Yeah, I know.......
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Funny how Whitty said it's too early to comment on data about children when this was reported in the Telegraph very low rates found:"Children returning to school has not led to a rise in Covid infections, as the first data shows just 0.05 per cent of secondary students tested positive.
The bit in bold is a clue as to why Whitty says it is "too early to comment" - much as one day of 28°C temperatures is insufficient evidence for anyone declare a heatwave. We need 2-3 weeks more data at least before we can start to make a determination. Hence the Government's carefully-spaced 5-weekly interval between various lockdown easing measures.
#2556
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so i agree they have been sending loads of mixed messaging the last few days, but nothing surprises me when it comes to how they frame discussions on unlocking aspects of normal life because their ability to waver has always been there.
#2557
Join Date: May 2010
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You really don't do patience do you Paula? Schools have been back less than 2 weeks - barely enough time for any viral transmission within the cohort to even register in testing.
The bit in bold is a clue as to why Whitty says it is "too early to comment" - much as one day of 28°C temperatures is insufficient evidence for anyone declare a heatwave. We need 2-3 weeks more data at least before we can start to make a determination. Hence the Government's carefully-spaced 5-weekly interval between various lockdown easing measures.
The bit in bold is a clue as to why Whitty says it is "too early to comment" - much as one day of 28°C temperatures is insufficient evidence for anyone declare a heatwave. We need 2-3 weeks more data at least before we can start to make a determination. Hence the Government's carefully-spaced 5-weekly interval between various lockdown easing measures.
#2558
Join Date: May 2014
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I think it's his job to be cautious. I'm sure that if I had been in his position, having spent Xmas volunteering in hospitals and seeing first hand the outcome of people's disregard for rules, I'd be going around the Tube slapping those with noses sticking out of the mask with a snow shovel. But I have never been a Gandhi.
#2559
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I think it's his job to be cautious. I'm sure that if I had been in his position, having spent Xmas volunteering in hospitals and seeing first hand the outcome of people's disregard for rules, I'd be going around the Tube slapping those with noses sticking out of the mask with a snow shovel. But I have never been a Gandhi.
well and he has to be the voice of reason because so many people including some of my friends, colleagues and the usual suspects in this thread all continue to whine about unlocking early and there is an expectation that we will unlock on those exact dates. that was never the point of the roadmap and they made a mistake publishing dates for that reason. so he is left to be the one to provide caution and realistic data to indicate how the government is thinking about these points. death and disease is hard to dress up and spin positively.
#2560
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Today's data looking pretty good:
Cases 4,802 (6,609 last Friday)
Deaths 101 (175)
Patients on ventilation now 879 (1,110)
Cases 4,802 (6,609 last Friday)
Deaths 101 (175)
Patients on ventilation now 879 (1,110)
#2561
Join Date: Jul 2018
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More in the BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n706
#2562
Join Date: Nov 2020
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I'm a volunteer at a couple of pharmacies doing the vaccine in Barnet Borough. HA McParland in Colindale has a waiting list for spares at the end of the day. Its about a two week wait for putting your name down currently. Give them a call.
#2563
Join Date: Nov 2020
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If they are young and healthy then encourage them to do a few volunteer shifts. Thats how me and my under 30year old partner got ours, and we were giving back to the community at the same time
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Once the priority group have been fully vaccinated (at least those who want to be), then it's quite likely that hospitalisation will be largely comprised of the unfortunate younger cohorts and the fools who didn't want to be vaccinated and will move fairly rapidly just to the latter group.
The most encouraging thing is that the excess mortality figure is moving towards zero. It won't stay there of course because currently it's being flattered by deaths brought forward by catching COVID which aren't now happening. Also, it will rise significantly for the next few years as those who have missed diagnosis and treatment because of COVID die from non-COVID conditions. This could easily amount, over time, to more people than those who died from COVID.
#2565
Join Date: Oct 2010
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This is an important and sobering point. Additionally, a GP was telling me that about one in three of her patients at the moment are coming to her as a result of anxiety and stress - she's desperately worried about the impact that coming out of lockdown will have on some in the coming months. Please be kind to yourselves.