Do I? I must have missed that part of the conversation. All I saw was someone asking if anyone with asthma on cyclechat had had a shielding letter. And an answer from you discussing health anxiety.There is a poster here who has said they have anxiety and I was talking to them. You do actually know this.
Well I do suffer with mild depression and anxiety. My son also has asthma and a couple of years back was so ill with flu he was couching up blood and couldn't even swallow water - he lost 2st over 3 weeks - he was 21 at the time.On the health anxiety in terms of asthma my advice would be to talk to people about it privately. Health anxiety is something which is being talked about an awful lot at the moment in the volunteering I do. I know some people with very high levels of health anxiety normally and they say they aren't really affected by covid-19, I've met a lot of others with OCD and GAD who are pretty worried and showing health anxiety-like symptoms.
I know a lot of people with asthma. I've only heard of one that has the letter. This doesn't actually surprise me in the slightest (5.4 million people in the UK have the condition which completely dwarfs the 1.5 million letters - source PSNC), but I know saying that is likely I get punched by you and other people on here who are understandably worried. Emotions/tempers/worries flaring up massively for some of those people. One is still raging against the world, but especially the GP after having not got a letter and trying to register and it being declined by the GP. Despite writing some time later, they are still having a lot of problems with deliveries. Some other people I know have been reassured that they haven't got a letter.
Yes, I believe one person on here has a letter for asthma (as a precaution, as outlined by Dr Harries DCMO).
P.S. I can quote some stuff about asthma to put it in context even though you have asked before, however, for two posters I simply think that would be unhelpful and counterproductive, so I haven't done it.
Your asthma history sounds similar to mine. I spent more time off school than actually there until about the age of 13 (though my worst time was in my late teens after leaving home where I was hospitalised a couple of times. I was young, stupid and not taking my condition seriously.)
The Swedish rules on Corona virus
GP said that as I was on tiotrpuim - I was in the high risk group and the sheilding guide lines applied. ....but still no letter.
I don't think you can just compare countries' totals figures. The unknown figure is how many infections are there in the population as a whole, if this were known it might be that the death rate would not differ quite so much from country to country. The totals will also differ according to how many care homes for the elderly have suffered from infection. When this happens it can sadly rapidly raise the total of deaths.
Don't think I mentioned it earlier, but in Heidelberg they have introduced the 'Covid taxi service'. Doctors with all the gear on visit patients who have tested positive after about 5 or 6 days, do a blood test from which they can tell if the disease is going to rapidly deteriorate. If this proves to be the case then the patient is admitted to hospital straight away so they can help them overcome it as best as possible. Whether this is also now being done elsewhere I don't know, but I would assume that would be the goal.
And we eat more doughnuts in the UK !
