WeAreElgin Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Interesting that we received a letter this morning from the government to state that my daughter is no longer considered high risk, and that shielding is no longer required. Anyone else get one? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Just now, WeAreElgin said: Interesting that we received a letter this morning from the government to state that my daughter is no longer considered high risk, and that shielding is no longer required. Anyone else get one? No. Sturgeon was talking about individualised letters going out to people on the shielded list in reference to their specific medical conditions, with input from their doctors presumably. Do you mind me asking why your daughter was shielded? None of my business mind.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreElgin Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 No. Sturgeon was talking about individualised letters going out to people on the shielded list in reference to their specific medical conditions, with input from their doctors presumably. Do you mind me asking why your daughter was shielded? None of my business mind..Not at all, she regularly takes methotrexate which is an immunosuppressant. Just waiting for clarification from a consultant as it came out the blue, I doubt much will change in terms of isolating for us but we can consider getting out of the house for now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Latest NRS update: Linear: Log scale: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Interesting that hospital deaths have now been below the 5 year average for 3 weeks now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Wing Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Interesting that we received a letter this morning from the government to state that my daughter is no longer considered high risk, and that shielding is no longer required. Anyone else get one?Received a phone call from my GP about half an hour ago to say that I'm being taken off the shielding list. She explained that it is all done on an individual basis and my level of asthma (and the inhalers I take) mean that going forward I am classed as less than high risk, but to continue to shield until the timeframe specified in the initial letter received.Good news as it means I can get back to work on the 22nd!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Last week there were just 4 admissions to ICU for Covid-19, and, as of 2nd June, the 7 day rolling average for new hospital admissions was just 6. It is becoming harder and harder to justify maintaining the tightest remaining restrictions in Europe when looking at those numbers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 12 today, not unsurprising. Tuesday/Wednesday is usually the peak days. Hopefully decreases back again towards the end of the week. Only 12 new infections by NHS labs and only 18 in ICU though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, renton said: Only 12 new infections by NHS labs That will drop the 7 day average to 23 (-11%). 14 or less tomorrow would bring it down to just 18. Deaths will remain at 7. Edited June 10, 2020 by Todd_is_God 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Last week there were just 4 admissions to ICU for Covid-19, and, as of 2nd June, the 7 day rolling average for new hospital admissions was just 6. It is becoming harder and harder to justify maintaining the tightest remaining restrictions in Europe when looking at those numbers.I’ve had no difficulty with our cautious approach to loosening restrictions thus far but agree we really need to begin to do so. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, 101 said: What if allowing schools to open as normal raised the R rate by say 0.3 and so to allow that increase as it will obviously be difficult to get kids to stay apart they stop adults mixing? That makes sense does it not? Education and the support schools give children is far more important that pubs opening etc. It's all about keeping the rate of infection below 1 and if allowing kids to do as the please can be accommodated within that then I would be happy enough for the medium term. Adults are much more capable of following physical contact restrictions, correct mask use, handwashing practices etc. than a class of five year olds, which means that you can actually open up vast tracts of everyday activity and have a similar impact to schools reopening. It's not just 'the pub': it's the entire basis of a services-led economy here. Perhaps you think that education is more important in an abstract world but given that the OECD now puts the UK at the very bottom of the recession pile it should be fairly obvious that an economic recovery is critical as well. There's really no point in an extra one/two months of school if there isn't going to be a functioning economy for them to ever find jobs in. Edited June 10, 2020 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Anyone catch the figures on test and protect? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, renton said: Anyone catch the figures on test and protect? This is online It doesn't say how many of those contacts went on to test positive, which isn't helpful. Edited June 10, 2020 by Todd_is_God 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_carson Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Interesting that hospital deaths have now been below the 5 year average for 3 weeks now. Probably could be attributed to the fact that a lot of other procedures and treatments have been cancelled. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Christ, Beowulf had less stanzas than your average Richard Leonard question... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 3 hours ago, MixuFruit said: dark fruits twitter is the lads lads lads juicing at the gym lot, fiat 500 is the girls posting they fancy pizza tonightxoxoxox and getting 10000 likes 2 hours ago, Marshmallo said: I don't think you understand what you're talking about I always thought Dark Fruits Twitter (should be Spice Boy Twitter IMO but whatever) were more limited to Scotland whereas Fiat 500 Twitter is UK wide. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Regardless of the numbers falling as they are the actual chance of measures being released through the phases faster than the minimum 3 week review period are almost zero imo. Not saying it's right just my opinion. We have a quandary coming next week over beer gardens and outdoor cafe, restaurant spaces potentially reopening as WM poured very cold water on reports yesterday of an acceleration of this in England to 18 June (our P2 review surprise surprise) fuelled by the press. Reiterated it would not be before 4 July. I can see the peasants really revolting down there if "Jimmy K" opens ours before them. As I stated yesterday I suspect the talks between Sharma and NS may have been focused on this very issue. Interesting to see how it pans out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Have some faith in Magic Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 681 positive tests over 10 days doesn't seem to tally with the positive figures reported each day? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven W Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 44 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said: This is online It doesn't say how many of those contacts went on to test positive, which isn't helpful. Must say 681 is a lot higher than I'd expected and hoped for, going by the daily walk I do past a Covid-19 test centre (only seen one car pull up since Test and Protect was in place). As you say, would be good to know how the 741 contacts got on? (Side note, if any of them were to test positive where would that be recorded?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Cases like this could be the big scandal when the postmortem enquiry comes about. I can understand them cancelling all non urgent procedures for the first couple of weeks, but when it became clear that the hospitals weren't going to be swamped there should have been strict isolation for the Covid wards, maybe using the new temporary hospitals, and let other procedures carry on as normal. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-09/coronavirus-horrendous-toll-on-non-covid-19-patients-emerging-nhs/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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