The "I`ve got it" thread...

[Princess Pooper]

Glad you are out the other side of your illness, updates appreciated.

 

[holywell farmer]

Bit of a question from me I'm a ex smoker if I get the virus will it be worse on my body ?

 

[Steevo]

Ironically the hospital is the quietest I have ever seen it. Probably akin to a tsunami where the tide goes way out before the wave arrives....

Dad's just back from a quick A&E visit this afternoon - despite trying to reduce all risks he still fell and hurt his head hard. First visit in a long time! Anyhoo......he said likewise - hospital very quiet thankfully. We were certainly in two minds about popping along to hospital just in case the masses (and their bugs) were there.

 

[Chae1]

Bit of a question from me I'm a ex smoker if I get the virus will it be worse on my body ?

Your fudged if you get it. James ds will know somebody that died cause there a smoker.

 

[tepapa]

Bit of a question from me I'm a ex smoker if I get the virus will it be worse on my body ?

Recon you'll have a better chance than a current smoker.

 

[JCMaloney]

We have now "closed" to ALL visitors unless its under 18s, carers or End of Life visits.

The daily email makes for bleak reading........

"Our hospitals have been working tirelessly to free up bed capacity and reconfigure wards and other clinical space. Similar work has been ongoing across our community and mental health estate. General practice too is adapting and working in different ways, making use of telephone and online consultation systems wherever appropriate to help minimise community transmission.

But the planning, preparedness and response cannot and will not stop there.

As local leaders we will continue to support you and we will do all we can to ensure you have the tools and equipment needed - including raising these issues regionally and nationally where necessary.

In the coming days and weeks we will continue to see a significant growth in the number of patients suffering with the disease, including those who are critically unwell. Caring for them will place huge demands on our system. Sadly, it is inevitable that some patients will die and it will be vital that we ensure that those who do are given the dignity and respect they deserve in their final hours.

We are so proud of the way our people have responded in preparing for these exceptional times and the way in which you are responding to this national emergency. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to each and every one of you. When this ends the country will owe all of you an enormous debt of gratitude."

The tsunami is coming, we have even deferred announcing how many have died until after a national announcement later.

Stay well, stay safe, stay home.

 

[76masseyman]

Please take care @JCMaloney, and thank you for the front line perspective.

 

[JCMaloney]

Not the kind of update anyone wants to give but, if it changes 1 persons choices and saves a life its good by me.
Confirmed cases: 26
Confirmed Covid deaths: 6

This is one hospital trust across three main sites, we are currently "low" compared to London and other hotspots. Worst case scenario is exceeding ITU capacity in 7-10 days.

I`m working from home today so we can support lab staff to physically distance by using our office space.

For many it will be mild but it can not move unless we move it.

Stay well, stay safe, stay home or minimise contact with others.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

The tsunami is coming, we have even deferred announcing how many have died until after a national announcement later.

Did I hear somewhere that the government were exploring options for the temporary storage of bodies if/when crem capacity is exceeded?

 

[JCMaloney]

Did I hear somewhere that the government were exploring options for the temporary storage of bodies if/when crem capacity is exceeded?

Already done that. Renewed the contracts for them and the undertakers to move patients a couple of weeks back, that was routine as they were due to be done BTW.Its always there "in the background" as part of local emergency and resilience planning.
They are known as "Mass Casualty Facilities". Here in the East Mids its Newark Showground and Bruntingthorpe Airfield. Think they are normally food cold stores.

 

[JP1]

Did I hear somewhere that the government were exploring options for the temporary storage of bodies if/when crem capacity is exceeded?

Those plans have been in place for many years as a result of previous terrorism outrages

 

[Danllan]

Did I hear somewhere that the government were exploring options for the temporary storage of bodies if/when crem capacity is exceeded?

The Spanish ice-rink idea seems a rational one.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

The Spanish ice-rink idea seems a rational one.

Just bagged up and laid out on the ice?

East of England will have a fair bit of potato cold store capacity.

 

[JCMaloney]

If you get chance there is video floating around social media by a contractor working on the Nightingale Hospital at the Excel Centre in London.
I think the reality and the scale hit him full on.

Stay well, stay safe, stay a safe distance!

 

[Hesston4860s]

I’ve just been reading an article relating to corvid 19, and it’s saying there 6 milder symptoms that suggest you could have it. Now of these 6 ”milder symptoms I had pretty much all of em for over a fortnight Christmas 2018, it could just be a complete coincidence tho.

I’m feeling fine at present tho !.

 

[H200GT]

Already done that. Renewed the contracts for them and the undertakers to move patients a couple of weeks back, that was routine as they were due to be done BTW.Its always there "in the background" as part of local emergency and resilience planning.
They are known as "Mass Casualty Facilities". Here in the East Mids its Newark Showground and Bruntingthorpe Airfield. Think they are normally food cold stores.

Havent seen it myself, but heard that a load of refrigerator trailers are parked on the Builth Show-ground?

By all accounts to be used as “storage” should it be needed

Anyone confirm this?

 

[czechmate]

I’ve just been reading an article relating to corvid 19, and it’s saying there 6 milder symptoms that suggest you could have it. Now of these 6 ”milder symptoms I had pretty much all of em for over a fortnight Christmas 2018, it could just be a complete coincidence tho.

I’m feeling fine at present tho !.

2018 or 2019?

 

[Hesston4860s]

2018 or 2019?

18 not the Xmas just gone the 1 before.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

If you get chance there is video floating around social media by a contractor working on the Nightingale Hospital at the Excel Centre in London.

Heard on the radio this morning that military planners are looking for another 10 such sites to turn into temporary hospitals.

Where are all the staff going to come from?

There wont be enough medical trained personnel (civilian or military) to staff 10 new 4,000 bed hospitals...?

 

[Steevo]

Heard on the radio this morning that military planners are looking for another 10 such sites to turn into temporary hospitals.

Where are all the staff going to come from?

There wont be enough medical trained personnel (civilian or military) to staff 10 new 4,000 bed hospitals...?

I don't think the 10 new ones are going to be quite as big as the 4000 bed ExCel.