[michael21]

All face to face meeting at job centres are suspended for the next 3 month


Many bus operators will be running a reduced sevices from Monday

[Cherie]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coron...cid=spartanntp

Trials of a coronavirus vaccine could begin within the next month, the Government's health agency has said, as it prepares to start evaluating a drug developed by Oxford University.
Scientists at Public Health England (PHE) could give the go-ahead for human testing well ahead of the usual time frame for drug development.
The health agency is only due to start preliminary evaluation of the vaccine next week.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Cherie

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coron...cid=spartanntp



Trials of a coronavirus vaccine could begin within the next month, the Government's health agency has said, as it prepares to start evaluating a drug developed by Oxford University.

Scientists at Public Health England (PHE) could give the go-ahead for human testing well ahead of the usual time frame for drug development.

The health agency is only due to start preliminary evaluation of the vaccine next week.

What happens to the usual guidelines of 12 months extensive testing ??


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[Cherie]

NHS staff who have retired in the last 3 years will be invited back

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51969104

[Cherie]

List of key workers who can send their children to school

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...iZnMptEWaX60ig

[bots]

The WHO are now saying that it doesn't recommend against taking ibuprofen for covid-19 symptoms ie their is no foundation behind the french claims that it made it worse

[reece(:]

GCSE and A Level students will get their predicted grades (and assignment results from teachers) as their final grade, and have the option to sit their exams next year if they are not pleased with it


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/f...ades-announced

[Cherie]

Match of the Day back tonight

https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/match-of-the-day

[Cherie]

Update 20th March 2020

Youtube video

[Cherie]

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-he...-idUKKBN218125

People identified as belonging to one or more of the at-risk groups include those who have received organ transplants, those living with severe respiratory conditions or specific cancers, and some receiving certain types of drug treatments.
They will be contacted by their doctor strongly advising them to stay at home for a period of at least 12 weeks.


“If you receive a letter it is vitally important that you act on it for your own protection, don’t attend any gatherings of friends or families and don’t go out for shopping, leisure or travel,” said Paul Johnson, director at Public Health England.

[Cherie]

Updated March 21st 2020

Youtube video

[arista]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...-shut-11962600

[People will only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes:

Shopping for basic necessities, as infrequently
as possible
One form of exercise a day - for example
a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members
of your household
Any medical need, to provide
care or to help a vulnerable person
Travelling to and from work, but only
where this is absolutely necessary
and cannot be done from home]

[Cherie]

Youtube video

[Cherie]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coron...cid=spartanntp

More than 7,500 former NHS staff have heeded the government’s call to rejoin the health service and help tackle the coronavirus outbreak. They include about 5,633 nurses and midwives and 1,930 doctors.
Matt Hancock told MPs on Monday that 7,563 clinical staff had applied to come back into the NHS by seeking to rejoin the register for their professionservice-in-coronavirus-drive/ar-BB11B7mU?ocid=spartanntp

[michael21]

Police have new powers

[Cherie]

Contactless card limit to rise to Ł45.00 from next week

https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...nning-of-april

[James]

Coronavirus: NHS capacity 'won't be breached at national level'

By Rachel Schraer

Health reporter

1 hour ago


The NHS should be able to cope with the coronavirus outbreak now the country is in lockdown, according to infectious diseases expert Prof Neil Ferguson.

Keeping people inside and increasing NHS staff and beds would prevent intensive care units (ICUs) from being overwhelmed nationally, he said.

There could still be some difficulties at a local level, he told MPs.

But there was now a "reasonable degree of certainty" the government measures would put the epidemic into decline.

'Extremely stressed'

"This current strategy being adopted now - we think that in some areas of the country ICUs will get very close to capacity but it won't be breached at a national level," Prof Ferguson told the science and technology MPs' committee on Wednesday.

"There will be areas of the country which are extremely stressed, but we are reasonably confident - which is all we can be at the current time - that, at the national level, we will be in capacity," he said.

Prof Ferguson, a key government adviser on the country's response to the crisis, was responsible for the Imperial College modelling that changed the government's approach.

It found that only the most draconian social-distancing measures would be enough to prevent the health service being overwhelmed and as many as a quarter of a million people dying.

These measures are aimed at completely suppressing the spread of the virus.

Critical care capacity

When the researchers looked at what would happen if the government tried to just slow the spread of the epidemic (known as 'mitigation'), they found ICUs would be eight times over capacity.

Since that research was done, the NHS has put new plans in place making it better able to cope. These plans would mean a 'mitigation' strategy would leave the health service's critical care facilities three times over capacity, Prof Ferguson said.

The combination of those NHS plans and keeping people in their homes is what is predicted to bring demand down to a level hospitals can manage.

There would be some resurgence of cases later, Prof Ferguson said, but these local outbreaks could hopefully be kept at a low level through more intensive testing.

He told the committee of MPs that the latest research suggested as many as half to two-thirds of deaths from coronavirus might have happened this year anyway, because most fatalities were among people at the end of their lives or with other health conditions.

Normal life

The peak of demand for intensive care is expected to come in two to three weeks.

The challenge the UK, and other countries, would then face, Prof Ferguson said, was how to move from a complete lockdown to a situation where some semblance of normal life could be allowed to restart, while still keeping coronavirus cases low.

Part of this would be about significantly increasing the numbers of people being tested, until a vaccine could be found.

But, Prof Ferguson added, the UK did not currently have the capacity to test on the level of countries such as South Korea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52035615

[arista]

But, Prof Ferguson added, the UK did not currently have
the capacity to test
on the level of countries such as South Korea.

[Kizzy]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9427656.html

[Cherie]

Briefing 25th March 2020

Youtube video

[Cherie]

Clap for the NHS at 8pm tonight 26/03/2020

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/heal...-a4398106.html


People in the UK are being encouraged to show their appreciation for the country's nurses and doctors fighting the coronavirus pandemic by taking part in a huge round of applause.
At 8pm tonight, people at home are encouraged to clap from doors, windows, gardens and balconies to set off an applause for NHS staff working on the frontline of the crisis.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Every NHS worker I've seen comment on this (and my wife knows a LOT of nurses):

"We don't want you to clap out of your door, we want better pay and working conditions when this is all over."

Sorry for commenting on the no-commenty thread but there's nowhere else for this one.

you could take it to the other thread I can see you hate being told what to do but just stop ****ing posting in here

[Cherie]

Youtube video

[Kizzy]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...or-coronavirus

[Cherie]

Sainsburys have banned couples from shopping together, this is also in force with all the other supermarkets, parents with children who cannot be left at home can bring their children.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...istancing.html