Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Accy cyclist]

I went to a local dentist intending to ask about some treatment. They were closed. I thought dentists were allowed to stay open? Unless it's personal choice and the dentist in question fears catching the virus.

 

[tom73]

No all treatment stopped on the 20th march they are only open for stuff like prescriptions.
NHS England are setting up Urgent Dental Care hubs (UDCs) for all emergency treatment for both covid or none covid patients
If you phone your dentist they will most likely have a recored message tell you more.
Or if it's an emergency or joy with your dentist then phone 111

 

[Accy cyclist]

No all treatment stopped on the 20th march they are only open for stuff like prescriptions.
NHS England are setting up Urgent Dental Care hubs (UDCs) for all emergency treatment for both covid or none covid patients
If you phone your dentist they will most likely have a recored message tell you more.
Or if it's an emergency or joy with your dentist then phone 111

Yes,they had a note explaining similar on the door. It's not an emergency,so it'll wait. I was just going to ask about teeth capping and how much it'd cost. Just unfortunate that when i eventually got round to doing something about my slightly wonky(ish) teeth i chose a time when they can't help me.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I linked to an article in a magazine called "The Critic" (New publication) a couple of pages ago and they published a graph on care home deaths which is worth a look -

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The data I'm sure is genuine, maybe worth noting that "The Critic" appears to be yet another opportunity for rich right wing businessmen to get their otherwise little heard views across.

Funded by this fella:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hosking

Employs Toby Young.

 

[pawl]

How about every single Accrington Stanley supporter? That should take you to 8.

Don’t forget the one man and his dog

 

[Smokin Joe]

I went to a local dentist intending to ask about some treatment. They were closed. I thought dentists were allowed to stay open? Unless it's personal choice and the dentist in question fears catching the virus.

There was an item on Welsh news about that last night. Dentists are in the most vulnerable category when it comes to exposure from a virus due to the saliva spraying from the patients mouth when they are drilling or cleaning. The surgery would also need a deep clean are every patient. Emergency care is available in some places, but only for people in pain and it is extractions only, no repairs.

 

[Smokin Joe]

The data I'm sure is genuine, maybe worth noting that "The Critic" appears to be yet another opportunity for rich right wing businessmen to get their otherwise little heard views across.

Funded by this fella:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hosking

Employs Toby Young.

Same data repeated on either the BBC or the Guardian, I forget which. Because the political views of those reporting something may not appeal to you does not automatically make it wrong.

Mind you, there is so much conflicting information about all aspects of Covid 19 I'll agree that everything should be taken with a degree of sceptisism.

 

[vickster]

There was an item on Welsh news about that last night. Dentists are in the most vulnerable category when it comes to exposure from a virus due to the saliva spraying from the patients mouth when they are drilling or cleaning. The surgery would also need a deep clean are every patient. Emergency care is available in some places, but only for people in pain and it is extractions only, no repairs.

Dentists have just been allowed to reopen in Switzerland along with hairdressers albeit strict measures

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-swiss-business-idUKKCN2291R5

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Same data repeated on either the BBC or the Guardian, I forget which. Because the political views of those reporting something may not appeal to you does not automatically make it wrong.

Mind you, there is so much conflicting information about all aspects of Covid 19 I'll agree that everything should be taken with a degree of sceptisism.

Fully agree. Just an aside on media ownership really.

 

[winjim]

There was an item on Welsh news about that last night. Dentists are in the most vulnerable category when it comes to exposure from a virus due to the saliva spraying from the patients mouth when they are drilling or cleaning. The surgery would also need a deep clean are every patient. Emergency care is available in some places, but only for people in pain and it is extractions only, no repairs.

Barring emergencies I can't for the life of me imagine why anybody would want to go to the dentist under current circumstances. We had a family appointment back in mid March, before lockdown, but I cancelled it, there was no way I was going to let somebody poke around in mine and my family's mouths, or even just sit in a waiting room. No chance.

 

[Accy cyclist]

There was an item on Welsh news about that last night. Dentists are in the most vulnerable category when it comes to exposure from a virus due to the saliva spraying from the patients mouth when they are drilling or cleaning. The surgery would also need a deep clean are every patient. Emergency care is available in some places, but only for people in pain and it is extractions only, no repairs.

Ah well,like I said it's not urgent. Imagine if someone were to lose their front teeth by eating something hard causing the crown to break off. Or losing their false teeth down the toilet or summat! Not an emergency,but not a nice situation to be in!

 

[fossyant]

My care organisation is nearly upto 300 deaths, some homes have lost a quarter of their residents in a very short period.

Can't imagine what this is doing for staff morale.

Crikey

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I went to a local dentist intending to ask about some treatment. They were closed. I thought dentists were allowed to stay open? Unless it's personal choice and the dentist in question fears catching the virus.

Emergency treatment only

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Don’t forget the one man and his dog

Busy mowing a meadow

 

[Rezillo]

Same data repeated on either the BBC or the Guardian, I forget which. Because the political views of those reporting something may not appeal to you does not automatically make it wrong.

There is quite a lot wrong, though, with that article. For example, he is assuming that care home deaths where Covid-19 is not mentioned as a cause or as a factor, are dying of other causes and then, somewhat bizarrely, he is blaming those "non-Covid-19" deaths on the lockdown.

This ignores the fact that care home deaths have been occuring for weeks without anywhere near full Covid-19 testing. As a result, it can't be assumed that all care home deaths recorded solely as, say, cardiac failure or pneumonia are all not due to Covid-19, especially when those causes of death are precisely how the virus kills.

Having completely misrepresented the ONS death bar chart, he then says "How can it be clearer?". Idiot.