KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
LOL! Don't know, haven't looked! The university concerned seems to be an ayurvedic one.
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classic33
Leg End Member
And parts are out of date, Pfizer have had FDA approval since August last year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58309254
That piece was written only a month ago.
"Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa."
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Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
And what it is, is rubbish.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
If he were a messenger he’d provide links to official New Zealand government website with their response. All I can see is a Hatchard job. I could register a website tomorrow and claim all sorts of stuff. Doesn’t make me a messenger or anything I claim true, unless I can back it up with the source. He fails to do that in oh so many ways.
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
To be fair, deaths will always be the last thing to rise - always later, and sometimes much later, than rises in infections and hospitalisations. People're usually in hospital for quite some time before they die.
So it's at least conceivable that deaths could continue at quite a high rate after new infections have fallen off a cliff.
Cynic that I am, though, I too believe that this lifting of restrictions so soon and so quickly is in very large part an attempt at deflection.
So it's at least conceivable that deaths could continue at quite a high rate after new infections have fallen off a cliff.
Cynic that I am, though, I too believe that this lifting of restrictions so soon and so quickly is in very large part an attempt at deflection.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I was remarkably lucky early in '21.
I had a problem that required me to have a whole battery of diagnostic tests, see a specialist, more tests and speak to my GP. This took several days, mid lockdown*, and it all went really efficiently.
* I think. I'm not sure what the prevailing restrictions were at the time.
Fat Lars
Well-Known Member
There's nothing like a witty incisive well thought out remark like that to lift one's spirits and make one's day. Great. Isn't Life Great.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
It's fair to say that the NHS is still doing its best to function despite the undoubted difficulties caused by Covid.
Since the pandemic started I have managed to be diagnosed with cancer, diagnosed with high blood pressure and had a heart pacemaker fitted. I have just had tests for suspicious growths on my spine..luckily not serious.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
But apart from that lot, you're okay, right...?
Seriously though... I'm sorry to hear it. I hope the various treatments go as well as they can!
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
Yep, right at the beginning of all this - I had my first consult with my wonderful surgeon on Thursday 19th March just before the first lockdown - I was going through the process of some very complex eye surgery. Here in the NW of England we were effectively in lockdown for months; I will never forget the day I went for my first surgery and the M6 was such an easy, pleasant drive with only essential traffic using it.
When I came out of the Eye Hospital after the first surgery (I had almost instantaneous - but short-lived - good eyesight, albeit at a 45 deg angle to the vertical, in the operated eye for about 45 minutes after surgery) I was amazed at how empty, totally empty, the streets of Manchester were ...
Within a week or so I had decent vision in the operated eye and the emptiness of the skies, the lack of contrails, the bird and wildlife - everything amazed me. And after just a few months and a few more surgeries I was 'all done' with only a very close watch needing to be kept on my eyesight for some months more.
Kudos to the NHS! This was all before there was enough PPE, little-to-no testing available and well before there was even a word of a vaccination; essential hospital staff were staying in hotels to keep vulnerable family members at home safe from the possibility of their carrying infection home. I had wonderful treatment. I doubt it could have been any better at any date.
When I came out of the Eye Hospital after the first surgery (I had almost instantaneous - but short-lived - good eyesight, albeit at a 45 deg angle to the vertical, in the operated eye for about 45 minutes after surgery) I was amazed at how empty, totally empty, the streets of Manchester were ...
Within a week or so I had decent vision in the operated eye and the emptiness of the skies, the lack of contrails, the bird and wildlife - everything amazed me. And after just a few months and a few more surgeries I was 'all done' with only a very close watch needing to be kept on my eyesight for some months more.
Kudos to the NHS! This was all before there was enough PPE, little-to-no testing available and well before there was even a word of a vaccination; essential hospital staff were staying in hotels to keep vulnerable family members at home safe from the possibility of their carrying infection home. I had wonderful treatment. I doubt it could have been any better at any date.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Yes, remarkably lucky. Please send some of that luck over here. I've just had yet another hospital reject a referral (before this, I didn't realise they could reject legitimate funded referrals if they had listed themselves as open on whatever Choose-and-Book is now called) so the only options now open to me have both declared critical emergencies. We're retrying the hospital that previously said it was too busy to treat me, as it's just had some money allocated for backlog-busting. I would have to check my notes but I think I've been waiting even for diagnostic tests since some time in '20 and my GP says I may be setting some sort of waiting time record for his practice.
The NHS in East Anglia looks to be in bits, frazzled after a tough year. Relaxing the remaining minor restrictions will increase its workload and that seems like a bad move. And if the time I'm spending every day treating an extra illness is replicated for even half the 6 million on waiting lists in England, plus people like me who haven't even got a waiting list place at the moment, that lost time must be harming the farking economy... but maybe all the meds and palliatives we're buying until treated outweigh that, or they hope some can go private and pay more(!)
Deleted User
Guest
- Location
- Wolverhampton
You lot must be unlucky,In the last 12 months I've had countless blood's taken, numerous hospital visits including a chest x-ray and a camera investigation and I'm about to undergo intravenous treatment which will be 3x4hr visits over the next 6 weeks, all due to an inflammatory bowel condition.Yes, remarkably lucky. Please send some of that luck over here. I've just had yet another hospital reject a referral (before this, I didn't realise they could reject legitimate funded referrals if they had listed themselves as open on whatever Choose-and-Book is now called) so the only options now open to me have both declared critical emergencies. We're retrying the hospital that previously said it was too busy to treat me, as it's just had some money allocated for backlog-busting. I would have to check my notes but I think I've been waiting even for diagnostic tests since some time in '20 and my GP says I may be setting some sort of waiting time record for his practice.
The NHS in East Anglia looks to be in bits, frazzled after a tough year. Relaxing the remaining minor restrictions will increase its workload and that seems like a bad move. And if the time I'm spending every day treating an extra illness is replicated for even half the 6 million on waiting lists in England, plus people like me who haven't even got a waiting list place at the moment, that lost time must be harming the farking economy... but maybe all the meds and palliatives we're buying until treated outweigh that, or they hope some can go private and pay more(!)
On top of that I'm in need of a 2nd knee replacement that's scheduled in for this year.
I did pay privately for the knee consultation in November but the X-rays (January) and final operation will be on the NHS.
A friend of mine is also scheduled in for a hip transplant in 3 mths time, she saw her consultant in December.
classic33
Leg End Member
I'm luckier than one doctor I was seeing/been seen by. Their name appeared amongst the list of hospital staff who died from covid-19.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I've had bloods taken but that's done at the village surgery. Has Wolverhampton's Hospital declared a critical emergency? If not, it's probably in better shape than those here. I wonder if it's accepting referrals from Norfolk, or if it's doing the same as a certain London hospital and rejecting things from postcodes it doesn't recognise with a message of "refer closer to home address" even when you've spoken on the telephone. That's one way to keep your waiting list short!
