It's been really difficult for us and others here to get deliveries or click&collect, especially in the beginning, but I see the various vans whizzing past most days so they're clearly very busy. We've managed to get 4 slots so far in total. Luckily for us, we had a well stocked cupboard and a butcher ca 10 miles away do frequent deliveries and sell flour, bread and root veg too. Life got a lot easier once we found out about them, as we can get some food reliably.
How do you know they are inflated? Why would they be inflated? Everywhere else in the world the governments have tended to count cases in ways that make the numbers appear lower than they must be in fact. Did Sundog's case get recorded? I know the people I know who have had the full suite of symptoms were not counted as they were not tested and didn't go to hospital. It was only after they passed the first peak here in England that fuller numbers came out, and they were higher than what was described as we were going through the peak.
It’s not the shops that change. It’s the brand names themselves. I have to use mt hands to pick the item up to thread the small print on the labels (the ingredients list) My daughter’s celiac and a single bite containing as little as 20 ppm can leave her debilitated for days and even after she recovers the damage to her intestines is permanent.
One works, the other shops. Or most often, both work and a grandparent watches the kids and shops.
How do I know? I thought I made it clear that I don’t KNOW.” Rather that I don’t buy it. Why not? Well as I said further upthread the very reporting criteria is suspect. Anyone being admitted to a hospital is tested. If they test positive and die they’re death is generally reported as a “Covid death” even though they were admitted with something else. (I just don’t buy it when gastric torsion gets listed as a “Covid death.” Also as I stated upthread the hospitals have a financial incentive to up their Covid count as most federal resources are being allotted to the areas and institutions with the highest count.
I suppose that depends on how you define Covid deaths. Even without people actually dying directly from the irus deaths are going up because of it. Suicides are up due to restrictions, job loss, and related depression. Likewise with families trapped at home domestic violence has seen a significant uptick.
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I think you misunderstood what I meant. No, suicides aren’t being recorded as Covid deaths. My point was about your earlier comment regarding checking total deaths now vs the last three years. The uptick in suicides will contribute to a rise. So will deaths from neglect at nursing homes now that family aren’t allowed to visit and check up on the quality of care their loved ones are getting. My comment about how broadly we define Covid deaths (meaning we here on the forum; not the official registers) was that in a roundabout way I suppose I do consider some of those to Covid related deaths. Regarding the domestic violence I haven’t read anything about it rising to fatal levels yet but just the trends of both that and the suicides are indicators that the restrictions might be as much a problem as a help.You have significant numbers of suicides and domestic 'murders' ? significant compared to the numbers of deaths by Covid-19 ?
A quick look online finds that suicides and murders are recorded as such and apparantly account for hundreds in the USA, rather than the thousands dying of the disease.
I'm not familiar with your local Registrars, so I don't know where to look for your immediate locality's figures. I know that where I live our figures are very low both for infection and deaths, but less than ten miles away, both north and south of us, it's a different story.
Anyway, this is the kind of news we see about the USA's pandemic.
What's behind the surge of Covid-19 cases in Florida | CNN
As Florida emerges from its coronavirus shutdown, the state is experiencing a surge of Covid-19 cases, with younger Floridians accounting for a significant number of positive tests.
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It's too early to tell about long term sequelae but the few CT series (multiple repeat CT's over a long period) I have seen at work show patients lungs recovering over a period of months and that seems to be true in the early data
COVID-19 | Radiology Reference Article | Radiopaedia.org
For a quick reference guide, please see our COVID-19 summary article. COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a strain of coronavirus. The first cases w...
Temporal CT changes
Four stages on CT have been described
- early/initial stage (0-4 days): normal CT or GGO only
- up to half of patients have normal CT scans within two days of symptom onset
- progressive stage (5-8 days): increased GGO and crazy paving appearance
- peak stage (9-13 days): consolidation
- absorption stage (>14 days): with an improvement in the disease course, "fibrous stripes" appear and the abnormalities resolve at one month and beyond
This is one of the articles that I read re the long term issues with fibrosis.
I know that some people do resolve, but on the whole, scar tissue is scar tissue. My son's lymph system still has dozens of tumour scars from cancer over ten years ago. Most with cover 19 will be clear of the fibrosis (not quite sure if that's the right word for this stage ? ) within six weeks, but it's becoming apparent that that's not happening with many.
Coronavirus: Warning thousands could be left with lung damage
Tens of thousands of people will need to be checked to see if they have permanent damage, doctors say.www.bbc.co.uk
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