Sensible information and advice about Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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It is which is why I was confused about your use of 'visiting with'.
crossthebreeze
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It is except within support bubbles. Making a support bubble with another household.
crossthebreeze
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Also childcare bubbles
[Withdrawn] Making a childcare bubble with another household
How you can get informal childcare for anyone under 14 from friends and family you do not live with.
Its been mentioned before on this thread, a pulse oximeter can be a useful device to have. I believe some gp surgeries have been giving out pulse oximeter's to high risk patients, to check if they need hospital treatment or not.
Its worth listening this program...
www.bbc.co.uk
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(I would also suggest, if you do buy a pulse oximeter, try using it when you're healthy and makesure you get a sensible value (95% to 100%). So that when you feel unwell and you have a lower than normal oxygen level, this is something real rather than an erroneous value, like forgetting to remove nail polish.
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Its worth listening this program...
Inside Health - Oximetry at home, Rapid lateral flow tests for Covid - Oximetry at home, Rapid lateral flow tests for Covid - BBC Sounds
Could measuring oxygen levels at home, when people have covid, save lives?
www.bbc.co.uk
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12 minute 24 seconds
Key points
- Below a certain oxygen level, hospital treatment is needed, if a patient's oxygen level gets too low, hospital treatment may not help. (listen to the audio for the details or have a look at this leaflet https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavi...fety-Netting-Leaflet-Revised-FINAL-171220.pdf)
- Use a pulse oximeter with a CE mark
- Pulse oximeter in a smart watch/smart phone are inaccurate
(I would also suggest, if you do buy a pulse oximeter, try using it when you're healthy and makesure you get a sensible value (95% to 100%). So that when you feel unwell and you have a lower than normal oxygen level, this is something real rather than an erroneous value, like forgetting to remove nail polish.
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hiraethified
Interesting reading:
www.theguardian.com
Lost touch: how a year without hugs affects our mental health
Humans are designed to touch and be touched – which is why so many who live on their own have suffered during the pandemic. Will we ever fully recover?
ska invita
back on the other side
Why does Covid make people breathless? Ive tried to google but cant find a more medical (but understandable) answer as to why people experience breathing problems.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Excess fluid and umska in lungs from fighting the infection
Supine
Newt Member
It's a respiratory desease!
ska invita
back on the other side
Yes I got that bit lol! I'd like to know what is happening in my lungs exactly, id like to visualise it
Supine
Newt Member
2hats
Dust.
Interesting
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editor
hiraethified
The lightning-fast quest for COVID vaccines — and what it means for other diseases
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Airborne transmission
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scifisam
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I'm trying to get in touch with my daughter's GP surgery because, despite being 22, she should be on the list for health reasons - the one that was expanded - due to being autistic. The surgery are very, very hard to get through to on the phone. They keep saying to book it online, but we can't (I've tried).
I know we won't actually have any choice when it comes to it, but is there any way to try to get her the Moderna or Pfeizer? I know, I know, I DO know that the risks are very low anyway, but she's in the (female, under 30) group supposedly most affected, and is scared of injections overall, so anything I can do to reassure her will help. And I had a stroke when I was in my thirties (daughter found me half-drowned in the bath), and my Dad had a stroke in his fifties, so there's family history of it.
Whatever vaccine is on offer, I'll take her along to get it done, but it's logical to want the least risky one, right?
TBH I'm more concerned for her than I would be for me - I had AZ and am still only 45 (and still female) and am the one who actually had a stroke, but it's easier to be logical about your own risks than your child's.
I know we won't actually have any choice when it comes to it, but is there any way to try to get her the Moderna or Pfeizer? I know, I know, I DO know that the risks are very low anyway, but she's in the (female, under 30) group supposedly most affected, and is scared of injections overall, so anything I can do to reassure her will help. And I had a stroke when I was in my thirties (daughter found me half-drowned in the bath), and my Dad had a stroke in his fifties, so there's family history of it.
Whatever vaccine is on offer, I'll take her along to get it done, but it's logical to want the least risky one, right?
TBH I'm more concerned for her than I would be for me - I had AZ and am still only 45 (and still female) and am the one who actually had a stroke, but it's easier to be logical about your own risks than your child's.
elbows
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If you are in the UK then the official advice is already that under 40's should be offered a vaccine that is not the AZ one. It was originally under 30's but they increased it recently. There are caveats in the official position to give them a bit of wiggle room around the theme of 'if available' but the way it was discussed in the press makes it sound like non-AZ vaccine should be pretty routine for the younger age groups.
www.gov.uk
Ah I see that the 'health reasons' aspect somewhat complicates the picture, but it should still be easier for you to make a case to officialdom about this than it would have been if the ofificial advice for younger people did not lean away from AZ.
JCVI advises on COVID-19 vaccine for people aged under 40
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has issued advice to the UK government on the use of the coronavirus (COVID-19) Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for people aged under 40.
Ah I see that the 'health reasons' aspect somewhat complicates the picture, but it should still be easier for you to make a case to officialdom about this than it would have been if the ofificial advice for younger people did not lean away from AZ.
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
Guy in my office has had three of his students test positive with flow tests over the weekend. The NHS app pinged him and told him to self isolate. He hasn't, he's come to work after testing negative twice with LFTs. Everyone in the office totally blasé about it. Wtf
prunus
Tick tock.
Tell HR or whatever equivalent function you have? It’s a legal requirement to comply with the NHS app telling you to isolate (I think!) - while the guy likely doesn’t care and won’t get in trouble, the company might not want to be seen being complicit (which it would be after having been informed).
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I think catsbum works in an educational establishment, where normal rules don't appear to prevail.
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
Yeah, I'm at a college. Plus I don't really want to be "that guy". I'm just fucked off with the complacent attitude. I've just took stuff to an empty office, I'll work in here
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
Update: I emailed my boss to say I didn't think procedures were being followed properly. She got in touch with a higher up who sent him home for ten days. Even after that a couple of people in the office were insisting he could come back if he tested negative, which is not the case if you've been pinged by the app.
I emailed to clear it up with him and he hasn't replied. Suspect he's pissed off with me
I emailed to clear it up with him and he hasn't replied. Suspect he's pissed off with me
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I've just registered and downloaded my NHS Covid Pass, more out of interest than anything else.
And this is what it says:
Which is bollocks, because the vaccine I received on 18th June was the SECOND dose
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So now, presumably, I need to find someone to complain at to get the record corrected.
This email address, on the page that gives me the link for the PDF, doesn't fill me with confidence, either...
I've emailed the dodgy address, to see if it bounces...
And this is what it says:
Which is bollocks, because the vaccine I received on 18th June was the SECOND dose
.So now, presumably, I need to find someone to complain at to get the record corrected.
This email address, on the page that gives me the link for the PDF, doesn't fill me with confidence, either...
I've emailed the dodgy address, to see if it bounces...
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
You've only got half of it - if you can get anything useful out of it, you're welcome
