Coronavirus outbreak

[glasgowcyclist]

Italy's chief medical officer has died of coronavirus.

All the talk of knighthoods and dressed up seem absolutely daft in this context. Surviving in post and as few of the people in the country dying seems good at this point and honour enough .

Six days ago, Giorgio Valoti, the mayor of Cene in Bergamo, wrote on his FB page: "When the emergency is over we'll all get together to drink an apritif and have a party. On average a life is 80 years, 15 days of calm and rest won't kill us. United we can stop it!"

He has now died from the corona virus.

 

[randynewmanscat]

My first shopping trip since people told to take things seriously. An old boy of the shopping type who cannot resist fondling and squeezing every piece of fresh produce before choosing a single piece.
I watched him palm his upper lip and nose before reaching down and again fondling through an entire bed of batavia. I mean the entire bed, he picked up, squeezed and groped every single head. I'm passing on the salad until my own come good. You can rinse the stuff but you are hardly going to apply soap and the way he was mauling the stuff I wonder if the crud on his fingers got into the flesh of the leaves. Loose steaming and boiling veg won't be a problem but the salads I leave for now.

 

[Inertia]

Just been speaking with my sister, a nurse at Ninewells Hospital

1) All leave cancelled
2) All non-elective surgery cancelled from Monday
3) Moving from 8 to 12 hr shifts from Monday
4) NHS Scotland have obtained a supply of ventilators that they say will be adequate for their needs
5) Proper face masks in critically short supply (see my post yesterday about non front line staff snaffling them)
6) All student nurses within 6 months of graduation are being signed off and put to work
7) Child care facilities for front line workers will be set up and run by NHS support staff

Not sure about this one at least, I have been keeping an eye on this part when I was told about it the other day. Its only just been suggested so its probably too soon to make the claim that they will all be put to work. They will be asked, and not just signed off.

“As part of sensible preparation this we want to invite up to 18,000 third year undergraduate nurses to help out on the front line, and we will be are working with the regulators and staff organisations on this.”

A spokesperson for the Royal College of Nursing said it would support student nurses who wished to take up the invite to the frontline.

https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/w...nurses-to-help-tackle-coronavirus-11-03-2020/

 

[Johnno260]

Could they not utilize military medics?

These are people trained to a high standard, and trained to cope with high stress situations.

 

[vickster]

Could they not utilize military medics?

These are people trained to a high standard, and trained to cope with high stress situations.

Don’t many already work within the NHS too?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

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Italy's chief medical officer has died of coronavirus.

'kinell!

source?

 

[Johnno260]

Don’t many already work within the NHS too?

I'm not sure, my wife is a nurse but kids nurse so they wouldn't see any MOD people there.

I was just thinking if they're an un-tapped resource it makes sense, if the need arises that is.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

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'kinell!

source?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...-death-toll-coronavirus-covid19-a4386356.html

 

[Johnno260]

Italian friend confirmed it to me as well.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...-death-toll-coronavirus-covid19-a4386356.html

Ah, that's not at all the same as the UK Chief Medical Officer.

The president of the Medical Guild of Varese, Roberto Stella, 67, died this week of respiratory failure after contracting COVID-19.


He had been practising medicine at an outpatient clinic in Busto Arsizio, north-west of Milan

 

[glasgowcyclist]

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'kinell!

source?

I'm not sure if it's the same guy but I was reading earlier of the death of Dr.Roberto Stella, the President of the Order of Doctors of the Province of Varese (Lombardy) and Director of the Lombard Training School in General Medicine, who was a family doctor.

 

[marinyork]

Ah, that's not at all the same as the UK Chief Medical Officer.

Um. It's not quite that simple. Although he is actually from varese, he was actually in charge of sorting the outbreak in northern Italy. He is one of a number of provincial chiefs, but drafted in to sort it. Health is dealt by regions in Italy. He has had statements circulating around Italian news.

Medical chief, chief medical officer were names translated, but outbreak chief which has not been used probably most apt but not translationally correct.

It would be a bit like if the head of the BMA or other body drafted in by Boris to take operational charge died and peopl said nah, they are just a family doctor. Well yes they are, but also dealing with running it.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

All European travel to the US from Europe suspended by the Trumpster.

Except from the UK.

Come on, what's so special about our relationship with the US?

Trump likes us, has interests here - and there's a hell of a lot of citizens in the USA of Irish ancestry, so not banning them plays well to his domestic audience. It is an election year after all.

On the other hand, Trump doesn't like the EU, and it's free movement principles. Not one little bit does he like the EU. The virus gives Trump a good opportunity to have a general swipe at the EU, and at the same time appear to be "doing the right thing" by keeping germ-carrying Europeans who could have travelled anywhere in the Schengen area, out of the US. If the infection rates don't get too astronomical, Trump will take the credit for taking tough action, and if it gets bad anyway he'll say "I tried my best but there were too many nasty foreigners already here". Trump doesn't care what the rest of the world, apart from his closest allies, think of his actions - and even then appealing to his own support base takes priority over everything and everyone else.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Last shop visit before home to pick up odds and sods and satisfy my weakness for crap sugary drinks. Bloke picks up the 50cl coke bottle by the neck and top and runs it over the scanner. This is to drink on the way home so I will wait until I get home I think.
I reckon for most of us it's going to take some adjustments before we can autopilot good habits. Trying to keep your mitts off your own face when you have a slight itch on an eyebrow or your nose is difficult, habits of a lifetime. I found myself stalling before pulling a trolley out at the big shop, I used the ends of my wrists to drive the thing.

 

[Rocky]

Wales Scotland rugby off.......shame as the Scots would have stuffed them.