In that day or two you may have infected any amount of people
Sorry Muddy, but even vaccinated people might infect any amount of other people.
I went for a CT scan at a private hospital yesterday morning. (I donāt know whether the NHS are doing them as they seem to be preoccupied with Covid boosters!).
Anyway, apart for being asked to wear a mask there were no questions about Covid, nobody asked me whether I had had it or if I felt any symptoms, there was no blood test for Covid and not even a temperature test.
It sounds as if, apart from the government wetting their pants, no-one else seems to be very concerned over Covid now.
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Then I read that vaccinated people are āLessā likely to spread covid as previously thoughtā¦who to believe ehā¦this was on a site called the Conversation, unfortunately I donāt know how to post a link or that information.
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Thatās why some private hospitals are crap .
I went for a barium meal X-ray at Mcr Royal Infirmary yesterday. Similar experience to you regarding questioning about covid.
However the queues outside the the vaccination centres that we passed en route were huge
Thanks for that clarification Muddy. No doubt thereāll be reports stating the opposite, such is the nature of the matter.
Where we are the hospitals are far more vigilant .
No one has any sort of procedure without a negative test the day before .
I must say when I went for my breast screening, they were very strict, only one on one, a new mask on entering ,hands sanitizer,only one patient at a time.
Yes they can ā¦ but correct me if Iām wrong as this is my understanding.
Originally, when it all started we were all waiting for a vaccine to be developed and some hoped for a cure , but I reckon most suspected the vaccine was not a cure but of limited protection because the vaccine was created so soon, within a year ā¦ when most can take 20 years or more.
So vaccinated or unvaccinated you can still get it ā¦ and you can still pass it on ā¦ but your chance of getting it is reduced if you are vaccinated.
Yes? Yes, I believe that to be scientific fact.
The idea is that we need to reduce, worldwide, the speed and amount of people passing the virus around until we attain herd immunity.
So the less of us catch it, and so spread it, the better.
So those who donāt get vaccinated are actually working in the viruses favour ā¦as they are not trying to halt itās spread.
The danger is that another mutant strain such as Omicron pops up which has already been mentioned by researchers ā¦ a mutant of merged Delta and Omicron which will be more severe than Omicron but spread as quick as Omicron.
That is why people are getting vaccinated ā¦ or should be.
Are they really, Muddy?
I donāt suppose you could give me some examples and reasons for that statement.
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The latest research shows
On average it takes 5ā6 days from when someone is infected with the virus for symptoms to show, however it can take up to 14 days.
There is a need to deep clean surfaces as well as the virus can survive on them.
You can infect an awful lot of others before you show any symptoms.
The reality is that whilst few are as yet dying from the new omicron variant, hospitals are starting to fill up and NHS Staff are having to self isolate.
This is affecting care.
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You have just given one you should have been tested before the procedure .
Also if you are in grave medical trouble medically speaking you donāt want to be in a private hospital you want the expertise and back up of the NHS
Of course if you want a routine service and better class tea and biscuits go private .
You are misinformed, Muddy, or perhaps itās different where you live.
Certainly, the neurologist and the cardiologist I have seen recently both work as consultants at NHS hospitals as well as the private ones I attended, so Iām confident with their level of expertise. In addition, both have assured me that if I require certain procedures it is possible that these can be done under the NHS.
The main thing about private medicine is that it enables you to be seen much more quickly than in the NHS. In one instance, an investigation that would have had to wait a minimum of 6 months in the NHS was done privately in two or three weeks. Itās not a matter of being āposhā, which I am not!
Nothing routine about my appointments either and, whatās more, I was not supplied with tea and biscuits!
I wasnāt suggesting you had been rude JBR, but those who are will know who they are.!
Anyway you are not allowed to criticize individuals , only their posts.
The vaccinated are not more socially responsible. What a stupid thing to say ā¦
No problem, Twinkle.
If I really want to criticise an individual, Iāll make sure to criticise their posts!
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No
The Moderna vaccine was available before the pandemic.
Secondly the vaccines donāt stop you getting covid they reduce your symptoms .
Herd immunity is when you have an extremely high concentration of people who have had covid who protect those who havenāt
The vaccines work on Covid-19 imagine the virus is a pack of cards - the variants are the same cards shuffled in a different order (Dr Anthony Hintons quote).
Yes most consultants in private hospitals are moonlighting from the NHS .
However when the chips are down and you need a serious operation they want the whole back up team behind them and where is that in NHS hospitals !
i would definitely complain about the lack of tea and bikkies