Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Thanks for all the supportive comments. He wasn't in any pain and his passing was made as good as it possibly could have been by incredibly caring and patient hospital staff, despite all the pressure they're under. They let his daughter and two sons sit with him and play music to him (Beres Hammond, Luciano and Dennis Brown in the early hours in King's ICU) for as long as they wanted before turning the equipment off. Then they let them wash and change him, before removing all the tubes. In the middle of a crisis, this level of humanity is so, so important and I know how much difference it has made to my partner today in terms of the memories she will have of her father.

So sorry @Markyboy - sending our love

Saddened to hear this, my condolences to you all.

So sorry. Condolences to your entire family.

Guess night nurse was on the list as well . Sorry to here of your loss .

Sorry to hear this

There are no words. A tragedy. I am so sorry for you and your family.

Crazy stat, 700k left London due to covid:
https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/­1349786187385499648

That could be COVID or the looming threat of Brexit. I have a few friends from other EU countries who left the UK after living there most of their adult lives, often with UK born partners but it was because of Brexit and covid just sped it up.

So sorry to hear that, condolences.

Glad to hear about the excellent care.

Sorry to hear this Mark. Love to and D and the rest of the clan

Ian Dunt eviscerating this shower of a government;

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-­news/the-governments-failure-over-covid-­6897992

Well, ffs. Teams meeting today and covidiot moaning about how awful the traffic on the M25 was yesterday. On his way to two in-person meetings, in a car, all totally unnecessary. WAC and in light of the awful news on this page, utterly infuriating.

There isn’t much detail on the Brazilian Variant of concern, which seems odd given the response it’s created.
Working backwards the concern must be fairly significant but presumably yet to be fully confirmed...?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/202­1/jan/15/uk-closes-covid-travel-corridor­s-and-requires-foreign-arrivals-to-isola­te

Vaccination ramping up significantly this week, my hospital got an all staff email and SMS inviting us to book from Sunday whilst has been frontline staff only being invited up till now. New joint site at Crick Institute with >1000 slots a day from Monday.

Vaccination ramping up significantly this week, my hospital got an all staff email and SMS inviting us to book from Sunday whilst has been frontline staff only being invited up till now. New joint site at Crick Institute with >1000 slots a day from Monday.

Awesome!

cool.

vote NHS.

Let me know how your sore arm goes ? My partners was tender for a few days.

The second dose is definitely worse.

We’re going to be a major hub and have done 10k to date but the target is 800k

Mate, I'm so sorry to hear this much love to you all from L and I... ♥️

315k doses today
360k/day avg now required to hit 14M target by 14th feb

Saw this posted on Twitter: a new paper discussing what's known about potential for airborne transmission:

https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.c­om/article/S0195-6701(21)00007-4/fulltex­t

Tl;dr? Anyone?