Sensible information and advice about Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Aladdin]

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[Supine]

Really good long read on the complexities of developing and rolling out a covid vaccine.

A Vaccine Reality Check

So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[zahir]

This looks like a useful report on how covid affects children and the issues with reopening schools.

What we are learning about Covid-19 and kids

As schools around the world prepare to reopen, emerging scientific evidence about children and coronavirus is coming to light

www.theguardian.com

 

[clicker]

This looks like a useful report on how covid affects children and the issues with reopening schools.

What we are learning about Covid-19 and kids

As schools around the world prepare to reopen, emerging scientific evidence about children and coronavirus is coming to light

www.theguardian.com

Why am I not suprised PHE are in the minority, by not suggesting face masks for secondary school students. If wearing them has possible positives and no negatives, why the feet dragging again?

 

[zahir]

Post Covid guidance.

Helping you to recover and manage your symptoms following COVID-19

https://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/Documents/TamesideandGlossopPostCOVID19PatientInformationPack.pdf

 

[two sheds]

Interesting, thanks for posting.

 

[zahir]

There’s also the post-covid hub:

Post-COVID HUB

For people left with breathing difficulties after COVID-19, their family members, carers, healthcare professionals, policy-makers and researchers. Stay up to date through our dedicated Post-COVID HUB.

We are still learning about the effects of COVID-19 on people’s long-term health. However early studies show that some people recovering from a severe case of the coronavirus can have ongoing breathing difficulties.

 

[zahir]

Long-term immunological health consequences

https://www.immunology.org/sites/default/files/BSI_Briefing_Note_August_2020_FINAL.pdf

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, it has become clear that infection with SARS-CoV-2 may be responsible for previously unexpected long-term immunological health consequences. The UK’s immunologists have been at the forefront of researching the phenomena that we are seeing and the mechanisms behind them.

This briefing note aims to summarise what we do and don’t currently know about the long-term immunological health consequences of COVID-19 and sets out the key recommendations for future research.

 

[zahir]

Managing long Covid

Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care

### What you need to know Post-acute covid-19 (“long covid”) seems to be a multisystem disease, sometimes occurring after a relatively mild acute illness.1 Clinical management requires a whole-patient perspective.2 This article, intended for primary care clinicians, relates to the patient who...

www.bmj.com

Post-acute covid-19 (“long covid”) seems to be a multisystem disease, sometimes occurring after a relatively mild acute illness.1 Clinical management requires a whole-patient perspective.2 This article, intended for primary care clinicians, relates to the patient who has a delayed recovery from an episode of covid-19 that was managed in the community or in a standard hospital ward. Broadly, such patients can be divided into those who may have serious sequelae (such as thromboembolic complications) and those with a non-specific clinical picture, often dominated by fatigue and breathlessness.

In the absence of agreed definitions, for the purposes of this article we define post-acute covid-19 as extending beyond three weeks from the onset of first symptoms and chronic covid-19 as extending beyond 12 weeks. Since many people were not tested, and false negative tests are common,4 we suggest that a positive test for covid-19 is not a prerequisite for diagnosis.

Around 10% of patients who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus remain unwell beyond three weeks, and a smaller proportion for months

 

[zahir]

A guide to symptoms

Could My Symptoms Be Covid-19? (Published 2020)

These days, every cough, sneeze or headache makes you wonder: Could it be coronavirus? Here’s a guide to help you understand the symptoms.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Mation]

You've got a current temperature of 39.6. You don't drive or cycle or live with anyone who drives. You are offered a test 5 miles from where you live. No home tests or other sites offered. You can't take public transport due to your temperature.

What do you do?

 

[Orang Utan]

You've got a current temperature of 39.6. You don't drive or cycle or live with anyone who drives. You are offered a test 5 miles from where you live. No home tests or other sites offered. You can't take public transport due to your temperature.

What do you do?

ask for a home test? 39.6 is pretty high for a temperature

 

[Mation]

ask for a home test? 39.6 is pretty high for a temperature

That would be good, except they've run out of home tests

 

[Orang Utan]

That would be good, except they've run out of home tests

jeez. i'd walk/cycle if i was feeling well enough. that's what i did, but I only had a mild temp and no other symptoms. that sucks.

 

[Orang Utan]

Maybe 111 may be able to suggest an alternative. Seems well shit in London for testing. Leeds has been highlighted as a hotspot today so they're sending out testing patrols and increasing testing sites

 

[Mation]

jeez. i'd walk/cycle if i was feeling well enough. that's what i did, but I only had a mild temp and no other symptoms. that sucks.

Yep. A ten-mile round trip, walking doesn't seem like a great idea with a temperature that high

And the website is now offering a test 6 fucking miles away.

 

[Looby]

jeez. i'd walk/cycle if i was feeling well enough. that's what i did, but I only had a mild temp and no other symptoms. that sucks.

You can only do that for walk in sites. Elsewhere you have to drive or be driven but not in a cab. It’s really shit.

 

[Mation]

Maybe 111 may be able to suggest an alternative. Seems well shit in London for testing. Leeds has been highlighted as a hotspot today so they're sending out testing patrols and increasing testing sites

They only have access to the same website and the call cut off part way through after quite some time on hold to speak to someone.

Shit show is shit.

 

[frogwoman]

Oh no feel better soon x

 

[Orang Utan]

You can only do that for walk in sites. Elsewhere you have to drive or be driven but not in a cab. It’s really shit.

Aye, the place I went to was walk in but it was 5 miles away too - I wasn't ill though, just being cautious cos of where I work and who I live with

 

[Mation]

Oh no feel better soon x

Housemate, not me. But thank you x

 

[Looby]

Just for info as posted elsewhere. I’ve been advised this week that the test booking site is fucked and to turn up for tests at drive in sites.
I went tonight and it was empty but no-one can book there! I assume it’s the same elsewhere.

 

[hash tag]

There is a pop up testing site at wandsworth town hall again this weekend but probably pre booking only.

 

[Mation]

There is a pop up testing site at wandsworth town hall again this weekend but probably pre booking only.

Yes, via the same site.

9.7 miles and counting. (Wandsworth wasn't offered.)

 

[hash tag]

I gather new slots are being offered all over the place all the time....tough, I know, just keep trying.
i dont know where you are but there was a large testing site in chessington.

 

[zora]

Just saw quimcunx mentioning a local (to her) little used, little known about test centre on another thread. Wonder if it could be useful for your housemate, Mation? Mind you, even if it was only a mile or two away from yours, and if there was a way to turn up there for a test without going through the website, walking there with a raging temperature and in a potentially highly infectious stage of illness doesn't sound great either. :/

And...just...yikes, sending all my best wishes to you and your household! Xx

 

[frogwoman]

Are there any mutual aid groups that can help?

 

[Mation]

Just saw quimcunx mentioning a local (to her) little used, little known about test centre on another thread. Wonder if it could be useful for your housemate, Mation? Mind you, even if it was only a mile or two away from yours, and if there was a way to turn up there for a test without going through the website, walking there with a raging temperature and in a potentially highly infectious stage of illness doesn't sound great either. :/

And...just...yikes, sending all my best wishes to you and your household! Xx

Thank you, I'll investigate x

All such a fucking shambles, though

 

[quimcunx]

Not sure how reliable. Someone said there is one on somerleyton road.

 

[frogwoman]

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30271-6/fulltext

Bit of an upsetting article about the complications some kids get with covid. One of the more alarming findings is that children can develop this illness after a previously asymptomatic infection.