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newfhouse

newfhouse

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If they let everyone do as they please, the’re not responsible, are they? This came up weeks ago, and it seems even more prophetic now.
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roubaixtuesday

self serving virtue signaller
The govt is not learning 4/n

So after ignoring the scenes at Anfield, Bournemouth and the like, the govt presses ahead with opening pubs on a Saturday night.

Yet again, the rest of the country have to lead our supposed leaders, this time by delaying their own businesses reopening to limit risk.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...0832109a7183c8#block-5eff087b8f0832109a7183c8

Will they ever learn?
 
tom73

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First Reports on the ongoing training medical detection dogs look to be going well. Still work to be done but if it works it's a quick and simple screening tool.
 
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marinyork

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From the guardian

New stats just out from the Office for National Statistics:

Main points

  • Across the care homes included in the study, we estimate that 56% (95% Confidence Interval: 55% - 56%) reported at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 (staff or residents).
  • Across the care homes that reported at least one confirmed case of coronavirus, we estimate that 20% of residents tested positive for COVID-19 (95% Confidence Interval: 19% - 21%), as reported by care home managers, since the start of the pandemic.
  • Across the care homes that reported at least one confirmed case of COVID-19, we estimate that 7% of staff tested positive for COVID-19 (95% Confidence Interval: 6% - 8%), as reported by care home managers, since the start of the pandemic.
  • These emerging findings reveal some common factors in care homes with higher levels of infections amongst residents. These include prevalence of infection in staff, some care home practices such as more frequent use of bank or agency nurses or carers, and some regional differences (such as higher infection levels within care homes in London and the West Midlands). There is some evidence that in care homes where staff receive sick pay, there are lower levels of infection in residents.
  • Findings also include some common factors in care homes with higher levels of infection amongst staff. These include prevalence of infection in residents (although this is weaker than the effect of staff infection on residents), some care home practices (such as more frequent use of bank or agency nurses or carers, and care homes employing staff who work across multiple sites) and some regional differences (such as higher infection levels within care homes in the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber). However regional differences may be affected by different patterns of testing in staff and residents over time.
Iain Bell, deputy national statistician said: “These are the first results from the Vivaldi study, a large-scale survey which looked specifically at infections in care homes which provide care for people with dementia and older people across England. From this we’ve estimated that over half of these care homes have had at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 amongst their staff and residents.

“Future work will include more detailed analysis and will incorporate COVID-19 test results from the whole care home testing programme.”
 
tom73

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marinyork said:
From the guardian

New stats just out from the Office for National Statistics:

Main points

  • Across the care homes included in the study, we estimate that 56% (95% Confidence Interval: 55% - 56%) reported at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 (staff or residents).
  • Across the care homes that reported at least one confirmed case of coronavirus, we estimate that 20% of residents tested positive for COVID-19 (95% Confidence Interval: 19% - 21%), as reported by care home managers, since the start of the pandemic.
  • Across the care homes that reported at least one confirmed case of COVID-19, we estimate that 7% of staff tested positive for COVID-19 (95% Confidence Interval: 6% - 8%), as reported by care home managers, since the start of the pandemic.
  • These emerging findings reveal some common factors in care homes with higher levels of infections amongst residents. These include prevalence of infection in staff, some care home practices such as more frequent use of bank or agency nurses or carers, and some regional differences (such as higher infection levels within care homes in London and the West Midlands). There is some evidence that in care homes where staff receive sick pay, there are lower levels of infection in residents.
  • Findings also include some common factors in care homes with higher levels of infection amongst staff. These include prevalence of infection in residents (although this is weaker than the effect of staff infection on residents), some care home practices (such as more frequent use of bank or agency nurses or carers, and care homes employing staff who work across multiple sites) and some regional differences (such as higher infection levels within care homes in the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber). However regional differences may be affected by different patterns of testing in staff and residents over time.
Iain Bell, deputy national statistician said: “These are the first results from the Vivaldi study, a large-scale survey which looked specifically at infections in care homes which provide care for people with dementia and older people across England. From this we’ve estimated that over half of these care homes have had at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 amongst their staff and residents.

“Future work will include more detailed analysis and will incorporate COVID-19 test results from the whole care home testing programme.”
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Confirms what anyone who knows anything about them all ready thought. The higher numbers in the north east and Yorkshire are not a surprise given the alder high amount of health inequalities and historic industrial disease. Sadly of course behind all the sats as they also found is that between March and June 20.000 care home died. :sad:
 
marinyork

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roubaixtuesday said:
Maybe. Or just maybe you have more Great British Common Sense (TM) than the incompetent narcissists and ideologues the Great British Public handed over the keys for the asylum to.
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There's a lot of coverage on here about the pubs, but I haven't heard of a single person that wants to go to the pub on Saturday. I know one that wants to go on Monday.

It is a stupid idea opening on a Saturday, but the public and pubs themselves see that.
 
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marinyork said:
There's a lot of coverage on here about the pubs, but I haven't heard of a single person that wants to go to the pub on Saturday. I know one that wants to go on Monday.

It is a stupid idea opening on a Saturday, but the public and pubs themselves see that.
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I'm really not confident that Sunday morning will not be dominated by photos of the previous nights carnage in city centres.
 
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