Carers with Corona virus

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There will be announcements later this week (after the budget) about measures being put in place to help the elderly and vulnerable, as for the symptoms google is your friend.

50Twuncle

venison said:

There will be announcements later this week (after the budget) about measures being put in place to help the elderly and vulnerable, as for the symptoms google is your friend.

I have googled this and have found nothing re up and coming announcements planned for elderly and vunerable help - apart from "Stay at home" !

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I have googled this and have found nothing re up and coming announcements planned for elderly and vunerable help - apart from "Stay at home" !

 What exactly are you looking for? Surely the advice to stay at home suits you if you are less mobile anyway

born_again

_shel said:

I have googled this and have found nothing re up and coming announcements planned for elderly and vunerable help - apart from "Stay at home" !

 What exactly are you looking for? Surely the advice to stay at home suits you if you are less mobile anyway

From previous OP thread.
>>I also struggle to walk to the front door  <<

LABMAN

_shel said:

I have googled this and have found nothing re up and coming announcements planned for elderly and vunerable help - apart from "Stay at home" !

 What exactly are you looking for? Surely the advice to stay at home suits you if you are less mobile anyway

He's looking for a way to 'self isolate' and get some money.

Alice_Holt

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

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 Carers U.K. has a load of information on Coronavirus and carers 

50Twuncle

Alice_Holt said:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

That is scary

Alice_Holt

50Twuncle said:

Alice_Holt said:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

That is scary

     Very.


     From the article : "Around 20% of cases require hospitalization, 5% of cases require the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and around 1% require very intensive help, with items such as ventilators or ECMO (extra-corporeal oxygenation)."

"“When the virus is out there, the population has no immunity and no therapy exists, then 60 to 70 per cent of the population will be infected,” Ms Merkel said."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-germany-news-angela-merkel-infected-population-experts-vaccine-a9394326.html


"The majority of coronavirus infections may be spread by people who have recently caught the virus and have not yet begun to show symptoms, scientists have found.

An analysis of infections in Singapore and Tianjin in China revealed that two-thirds and three-quarters of people respectively appear to have caught it from others who were incubating the virus but still symptom-free. The finding has dismayed infectious disease researchers as it means that isolating people once they start to feel ill will be far less effective at slowing the pandemic than had been hoped."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/health-expert-brands-uks-coronavirus-response-pathetic
"Prof John Ashton, a former regional director of public health for north-west England, accused the government of failing to understand public health, which has been undermined over the past 10 years by cuts in funding of 30% to local authorities, which were given responsibility for it. There were no strategies for protecting the vulnerable and there had been a failure to engage the public. “We have a superficial prime minister who has got no grasp of public health,” Ashton said. “This virus will find the weak points.....

Current contingency plans assume that up to 80% of people could get infected .....He warned that the NHS was not in a position to cope with the large numbers of people who could become seriously ill. “It’s a joke when they put up people to say they are really on top of it and if it spreads at a community level the NHS will cope, it’s always coped. The hospitals are full at the moment, A&Es are full, beds are full, intensive care is full." 


And back to the original article, "Hubei in China built two hospitals in ten days, but even then, it was completely overwhelmed...patients inundated their hospitals. They had to be taken care of anywhere: in hallways, in waiting rooms.

Healthcare workers will spend hours in a single piece of protective gear, because there’s not enough of them. As a result, they can’t leave the infected areas for hours. When they do, they crumble, dehydrated and exhausted. Shifts don’t exist anymore.  Everybody is on call, always. That is, until they become sick. Which happens a lot, because they’re in constant exposure to the virus, without enough protective gear. When that happens, they need to be in quarantine for 14 days, during which they can’t help. Best case scenario, 2 weeks are lost. Worst case, they’re dead.

The worst is in the ICUs, when patients need to share ventilators or ECMOs. These are in fact impossible to share, so the healthcare workers must determine what patient will use it. That really means, which one lives and which one dies."

PasturesNew

warby68 said:

 
I am stocking her up  

Don't forget the boredom factor and the need for more distractions than are usual. 
A good supply of treats/snacks and junk food to nibble on... whatever are her favourites.  Chocs, crisps....  stuff you crave when you're "bored" and waiting for something to start/end... and want to turn to a nibble. 

It's not all about good healthy meals, fresh fruit and getting enough to eat.... those treats become the real essentials.