Yes , droll .
Yes I was expecting a letter but have not received one yet.
I can’t hang around at home for months on end, could be years … that’s not going to do me any good. So I follow the advice … distancing, and all that.
Several vulnerable people I know with underlying conditions forcing them to self isolate for the12 weeks have had letters from the NHS who are supplying data to Supermarkets so that they get priority slots.
Prior to that I suppose they have to rely on family , friends or volunteers . I can see plenty of the latter if I go into Facebook for my area .
Asda are running a card you can load and print off which you give to the volunteer to shop for you ,so no actual money exchanged …
Living alone I just managed to get my first Sainsburys slot on Saturday but I don’t have underlying conditions .Had to rely on a friend up to then . You just have to keep the sites open and hope slots become available .
What is classed as 'vulnerable by the government. I have had no letter from anyone. I am 92, suffer from asthma and have mobility problems which means using a frame to move around most of the time. Am I classed as ‘vulnerable’? If so then why have I not been notified.
No, that’s fine JBR, we need to bring some humour in between the sad bits.
Thank you for thinking of me though. :hug:
They are doing trials of plasma as therapy not as a vaccine. Seems a risky approach. They need one donor to save 2-3 patients. I’m not sure whether there has to be a match.
I guess the more virus you have in one go the less the virus needs to replicate itself for an attack. So your body has less time to make antibodies.
Encouraging news.
It is certainly not unusual for the body to build up a resistance to a virus once having caught it and survived.
I believe that the common cold is one example of this. The reason why people do catch colds again, having already had one, is that there are apparently many different forms of the common cold.
I think it is perfectly feasible that this might world for Covid-19, though we should not assume that different versions of coronavirus might rear their ugly heads in future.
Or even the Isle of Wight!
Oops! :shock::shock::shock:
(Sorry LL)
Oh, I think of you all the time LQ!
Oh well if you havn’t received the letter you thought you’d get that’s good ?Yes I read what you were doing . It miust be quiet there at the moment ?
Well the condition asthma is mentioned but it’s SEVERE asthma .
It’s in a letter from the NHS because you suffer from certain conditions .
Here’s the list of those
[I] The groups defined as “extremely vulnerable” who will receive the letter are:
• Solid organ transplant recipients.
• People with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy or radical radiotherapy for lung cancer.
• People with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment.
• People having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer.
• People having other targeted cancer treatments which can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or Parp inhibitors.
• People who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months, or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs.
• People with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe COPD.
• People with rare diseases and inborn errors of metabolism that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as SCID and homozygous sickle cell).
• People on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk of infection.
• Women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired.[/I]
I have read in dozens of web sites that those with diabetes are classed as vulnerable. Not so in the UK ?
Yes they are vulnerable but that list is extremely vulnerable.
It’s interesting that heart disease isn’t on the list. Heart disease being the most common coexisting condition with Covid mortality.
Just from memory that was just the first couple of loads of people repatriated from Wuhan in China who were sent to Christmas Island in the very early days of the epidemic.
Our rules are strict and were enacted early, the important thing is that our borders were closed to all travellers except returning residents. Apart from these there are no international flights and probably won’t be until Christmas. All entry visas for foreign nationals were cancelled and all cruise ships were told to leave with in 30 days.
Since then all arrivals in Australia have to quarantine in a hotel in the state in which they arrive. They are taken from the Airport by police and/or the military and stay in their room for 14 days. Then they are released and can go to their home state. However that might mean they have to quarantine themselves for another 14 days because of the laws in that state.
One person has been sentenced to gaol for breaking these quarantine rules.
All non essential travel was banned and our pollies were not allowed to swan off to country homes for any reason. A NSW minister resigned and was fined for doing so. The rules applied to everyone even ex Etonians.
Because of the success so far they are now talking of relaxing the rules on elective surgery which was initially stopped to release hospital beds.
I had to look up what the word “gaol” meant. How do you pronounce that ?
We say jail for relatively short terms and prison for much longer terms.
Often quite difficult to understand British English as opposed to American English.
Pronounced the same as Jail.
Its Norman(French) English from 1066
Global Cases 2,481,885
Global Deaths 170,456
Mortality Rate 7%
(Flu Mortality Rate 0.1%)
Australia
Cases 6,625
Deaths 71
Critical 49
Cases per Million 260
UK
Cases 124,743
Deaths 16,509
Critical 1,559
Cases per Million 1,838
USA
Cases 792,913
Deaths 42,517
Critical 13,951
Cases per Million 2,395
Mortality Rates based on published figures
Australia 1%
UK 13%
USA 5.5%
Germany 3.5%
I added Germany as they seem to be doing best of the European countries though I haven’t accurately worked out all European figures, even the percentages I mention depend on how accurate the data is.
NSW schools to gradually return in May
The NSW Government has revealed that from May 11 — week three of term two — students will return to campus for one day a week.
However, that doesn’t mean the floodgates will open.
“Initially it will just be a day a week, then progressively two days, and then we hope by the end of term two we’ll be in a position to have students going back to school in a full-time capacity by term three,” Ms Berejiklian said.
Ms Berejiklian said scaling-up attendance to two days a week would be reviewed at the end of week three.
At this stage, it’s hoped children will be able to go back full-time for term three, which begins on July 20, so there’s still plenty of disruption for families ahead
Elective surgery to resume
Prime Minister Scotty from Marketing has announced elective surgery restrictions will start to be eased after this weekend.
National Cabinet, which includes Mr Morrison, premiers and chief ministers, has decided to lift the restrictions, imposed last month, following a briefing from health officials.
IVF, joint replacement, cataracts, breast reconstruction and dental procedures are among those that will be able to take place following the Anzac Day long weekend.
Elective surgeries were cancelled last month to free up beds amid fears the coronavirus would overwhelm the hospital system.
Britain ‘allowed epidemic to get out of control’
The death toll in Britain has surpassed 16,000.
And many people are wondering how that could be.
How could it happen in a first world nation where politicians had not only been warned, but could see for themselves the tragedy unfolding in other nations in Europe?
Some medical experts are warning there is worse to come.
Anthony Costello is a former director of maternal and child health at the World Health Organisation, and a Professor at University College London’s Institute for Global Health.
He thinks the virus could ultimately claim more lives in the UK than any other European nation.
“It’s going to be very embarrassing for us,” Professor Costello told 7.30.
“We basically allowed an exponentially-rising epidemic to get out of control when if we’d acted much earlier, like the Koreans, you would have suppressed it.”
The death toll in South Korea is 236.
Professor Costello believes Prime Minister Boris Johnson took action two weeks too late.
You all thought that it was just superstition and old wives tales walking on the cracks in the pavement…Well you’re not laughing now!..