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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Whereas I don't think my relative who works at Weston general was tested before this week because she's not treating c19 patients and even now, aren't they only testing for current infection not antibodies?
BTW, that hospital building is awful in my experience as patient and visitor over many years. It's a typical late twentieth century cross between an office block (floor tiles, ceiling tiles, headache-inducing fluorescent light squares, ...) and a greenhouse (glass atrium, half-glazed porches, ...). Modern buildings like at Cambridge or Norwich make it look very poor but I guess that's the standard of hospital a town with loads of retirement homes and rehabs gets lumbered with
That sounds bad.
Well let's hope the newer tests being trialled the antibody test and saliva test pass the trials and a bit more of capacity is freed up.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
steve292
Veteran
- Location
- Weston-super-mare, north somerset
And no A + E . It's going to get worse here I fear. The beach was packed out last w/e with people from all over, including from Wales. Clevedon marine lake was the same. No attempts at social distancing at all in most cases.Whereas I don't think my relative who works at Weston general was tested before this week because she's not treating c19 patients and even now, aren't they only testing for current infection not antibodies?
BTW, that hospital building is awful in my experience as patient and visitor over many years. It's a typical late twentieth century cross between an office block (floor tiles, ceiling tiles, headache-inducing fluorescent light squares, ...) and a greenhouse (glass atrium, half-glazed porches, ...). Modern buildings like at Cambridge or Norwich make it look very poor but I guess that's the standard of hospital a town with loads of retirement homes and rehabs gets lumbered with
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-test-and-trace-how-it-works
Test and trace guidelines.
Totally different rules if you are the suspected first node in the graph
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If you are the first node, you and your family can do what you want if you test negative. If you are the second node you cannot leave even if you test negative, however if you have a test and test positive you can leave isolation in some cases before than if you test negative!!!!
If you are the second node and don't show or declare symptoms the rest of the household can go about things normally.
If the testing and trace system is very slow then there may not be much practical difference between the above.
BBC news said this morning that a chaotic system in crowded workplaces or communicated could mean 14 days isolation, two days back and another 14 days as it slowly tracked around the workplace.
Test and trace guidelines.
Totally different rules if you are the suspected first node in the graph
.If you are the first node, you and your family can do what you want if you test negative. If you are the second node you cannot leave even if you test negative, however if you have a test and test positive you can leave isolation in some cases before than if you test negative!!!!
If you are the second node and don't show or declare symptoms the rest of the household can go about things normally.
If the testing and trace system is very slow then there may not be much practical difference between the above.
BBC news said this morning that a chaotic system in crowded workplaces or communicated could mean 14 days isolation, two days back and another 14 days as it slowly tracked around the workplace.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Locally the police have failed to stop gatherings, parties, etc. for the past 9 weeks. How are they expected to deal with this when they couldn't cope with the numbers they could monitor visibly?
'Stay in for 14 days' = "I don't care" to many I'm afraid.
'Stay in for 14 days' = "I don't care" to many I'm afraid.
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
Oh look, track and trace is a go. Back to school kids!
No thanks Dom, I'll keep shielding with my Yr 1 and wait for the second wave and the second (harsher) lockdown.
No thanks Dom, I'll keep shielding with my Yr 1 and wait for the second wave and the second (harsher) lockdown.
Milzy
Guru
There's all this talk of a second wave. I don't think it will be. Many countries are back to almost fully normal doing fine although it seems strange. Looks like we've become experts in stopping highly contagious diseases already.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
It's worth having a look at what's happening in South Korea.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
A staff nurse I know said they had had meetings and predict another peak in June, then November. Not sure where they get the data from. I think we will still get a few peaks in the months to come, hopefully nothing like the first though.
Milzy
Guru
I'm still Furloughed. It would be most frustrating to go back next week and then be sent home again. Not realistic IMHO.
