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[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread
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The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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Italy with the lowest death number since March 19th with 431.
Most covid19 cases will never need hospital and going by French stats only 22% of those hospitalised will need Intensive Care.
I have family working in Brighton and Worthing hospital wards, which were converted for additional covid19 cases, still all completely empty.
The calm before the storm, or a positive from social distancing?
Definitely the latter.
I work at goring hall hospital and we’ve stopped taking private patients.
Basically handing the hospital over to the NHS.
We will take long term patients from Worthing to free up beds for COVID patients.
There is still no sign of taking any patients from Worthing at the moment, so we know Worthing are more than coping.
This may of course change but no signs of that as of yet
Daughter is reporting the same - her hospital has been cleared out of as many patients as possible, wards readied for Covid19 influx and at the moment seems about 50% full, with more staff than usual so the staff/patient ration is ridiculous compared to normal (on her last shift they had 3 nurses and 3 auxs for 12 patients compared with 2+2 for 30 on a normal shift). I guess this is why Hancock was essentially stating the NHS can now cope with the numbers. If that amount of headroom remains, and new case numbers start to decline, I can see lockdown easing at least a bit in a couple of weeks.
That would be, said with caution in case there are further waves in the pandemic, a hugely positive outcome compared to the worst we all imagined. Social distancing, and self isolation by the vulnerable, the probable reason.
You would hope any further waves would be slower to rise (due to existing and growing immunity, and certain social distancing measures that will remain), and be prepared for far better.
It's local good news (for now) isn't it?
There seem to be some really shitty hotspots - London and Birmingham (not surprisingly) but also Newport, Gwent. To a degree this was the issue in Italy. Lombardy totally overrun while other areas were relatively free.
There must be a real balancing act between wanting to take cases in from other places in the country and knowing that if you do, you are screwed if it kicks off locally.
There seem to be some really shitty hotspots - London and Birmingham (not surprisingly) but also Newport, Gwent. To a degree this was the issue in Italy. Lombardy totally overrun while other areas were relatively free.
There must be a real balancing act between wanting to take cases in from other places in the country and knowing that if you do, you are screwed if it kicks off locally.
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
My Niece is working in the Royal Sussex and is saying it is half empty and have been waiting for this mass influx of cases which still hasn't happened, she said the biggest problem is with staff nicking PPE etc.
Didn't know where else to put it but this feels positive for people obeying the instructions
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Yep caution is the word ..but at least it can be seen as a positive that the sacrifices that the majority are making in one way or another are having an impact...depriving this horrid despicable thing of the oxygen it craves
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LamieRobertson
Not awoke
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
This is really good news for a country that has been through the mill
Barham's tash
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So what I’m yet to see is confirmation of what a positive notification would mean? Being alerted to the fact you’ve been in proximity to someone who has tested positive does what exactly? Make you run home and self isolate for 7 days?
How’s that going to work on public transport surely you just need one positive person on a carriage and then everyone has to self isolate.
And how do you convince those who have had it record that they have in the app?! Surely all it does is risk making pariahs of people who have it or have had it...
Garry Nelson's teacher
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I've heard - and this is purely anecdotally - that St Richards and Worthing hospitals are similar. You've go to grab the good news where you can.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
The chief Scottish medical officer was on BBC news this morning stating that mass testing is not the panacea that many think. The real game changer is the antibody test, because as he said, if he was tested Monday, and the test result comes back Tuesday, the result only tells him that he was clear of the virus on Monday, not whether he has it now on the Tuesday.
Why is the **** in the white lorry in the second lane
Because they're working on a cure for coronavirus, not "being a ****".
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
I assumed that Brighton & Hove would be a real hotspot by now, but as was pointed out to me yesterday, there are no students at the universities (or at least very few) and that takes a sizeable chunk of the population out of the area. A group that would otherwise be extremely sociable and mobile, living in close proximity, and providing a very easy way for the virus to spread.
Add to that the fact that the city is built on its tourism, pubs, clubs and general party vibe – and all those things are closed down – visitor numbers will be almost negligible.
So, that just leaves the resident population, and if everyone stays sensible there ought to be a really good chance of keeping the numbers relatively low.