Really worrying. We live on an A road between two ambulance stations and we’ve really noticed how many more ambulances are flying past at all hours of the day or night.
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Really worrying. We live on an A road between two ambulance stations and we’ve really noticed how many more ambulances are flying past at all hours of the day or night.
Sad times.
Where I live, the ambulance goes past about 4-5 times a night the last few weeks. Similar to March/April
Yeah, there’s been a definite escalation over the last few weeks no doubt. Some of it may just be us being more aware of it but we’ve been here a long time now and haven’t noticed it this much since last March / April as you said. It puts you on edge a little as it’s a reminder of what’s out there.
Some ambulances are waiting up to six hours to offload covid patients in California. They have to sit there, keeping the covid patient alive in their ambulance in many instances, waiting for a bed, completing tying them up from responding to other emergent issues.
Similar here, yet I live in a town of roughly 150K.
My partner just tested positive! We made the best decision ever to not allow her parents over for Christmas!
She’s been very under the weather, lost all smell and taste, had a bit of a cough, otherwise okay. I assume I got it too, I have had a bit of a fever and been extremely fatigued.
We have been isolating because we’re in tier 4 anyway, and the second she felt a bit unwell we made sure to not to out at all, very happy we can say we have contained the virus here.
She’s been very under the weather, lost all smell and taste, had a bit of a cough, otherwise okay. I assume I got it too, I have had a bit of a fever and been extremely fatigued.
We have been isolating because we’re in tier 4 anyway, and the second she felt a bit unwell we made sure to not to out at all, very happy we can say we have contained the virus here.
I don't know why it isn't already. The cases are at the worst they've ever been and we're still not in lockdown.
Thank you my dude
That's shit, hopefully stays not too bad and you both recover well!
Cheers mate! We seem to be okay so far.
Good decision. Get well soon
Someone my gf works with is isolating because someone in her bubble tested positive. She's been working up until this point though.
Need to wait for her results now (should be today) and then if she's positive we'll have to get tested.
Need to wait for her results now (should be today) and then if she's positive we'll have to get tested.
I had a very similar thing where I had swapped being my mums support bubble so she could have care after an op around 4 weeks ago. Following week our house got covid, thankfully seem to no bad after effects.
Hope you only get a mild case
Good luck buddyCheers guys
Wouldn’t say this photo says as much as you think it does. Hospitals are currently being very cautious with who gets admitted to hospital. I’d imagine a lot coming off those ambulances, many who may just be having medical emergencies will need to be screened thoroughly before entering. I’d also point out this is something I’ve seen on Friday nights down the years working in London.
This isn’t to say the situation isn’t bad at the moment, it clearly is but yeah photos like this don’t actually tell a full picture. But it’ll get clicks and looks dramatic.
Senior people in the NHS have said for weeks that people are being triaged in ambulances because hospital space is so limited across different parts of the country. In some cases (like where I’m from) ambulances have turned up at hospitals that told them they were too full to take them because there was no alternative to provide the required care. That isn’t a case of hospitals screening people more thoroughly but a case of crisis management. It’s not a dramatisation of events designed for clicks but an accurate reflection of unusual circumstances that are becoming all too usual.
Hmm Boris been called in this time.
She's negative which is good news.
Lad I played football with on Monday has just told us that two of his relatives are in the ICU and his mum's positive. He's waiting on his result tomorrow.
I shouldn't be worried about this too, should I?
I shouldn't be worried about this too, should I?
Lad I played football with on Monday has just told us that two of his relatives are in the ICU and his mum's positive. He's waiting on his result tomorrow.
I shouldn't be worried about this too, should I?
Do you like his relatives?
Didn't mean it that way! Of course I've already wished him all the best to his family, and hoping they're all okay ASAP.
Not close to him tbf, just someone who is part of the team I play with. The fact that we were outdoors makes me think the chances are minimal.
What a consistent imbecile this guy continues to be...
Lad I played football with on Monday has just told us that two of his relatives are in the ICU and his mum's positive. He's waiting on his result tomorrow.
I shouldn't be worried about this too, should I?
If he tests positive, I would be getting a test done if I was in your situation.
Any leaks?
Cummings is long gone. Laura and Peston are going spare.
Like I said in my initial post the situation is bad. My point is mainly the use of photos in this instance is wrong. I was trying to be polite to the poster I replied to but doing this whole plucking anything covid related off twitter and posting it in here thing is not helpful. Posters should dig a little deeper into what they’re posting and make sure it’s from good sources.
Especially when I know for a fact that this photo of the Royal London supposedly proving that those ambulances are filled with covid patience is factually incorrect. I can tell you now with 100% certainty that the Royal London does not have ambulances full of covid patients queuing outside the hospital waiting for a bed. It didn’t last night and it doesn’t this morning.
And as for “this isn’t a case of hospitals screening more people thoroughly” again I can tell you this with 100% certainty this is happening. It’s been happening at every hospital for months on end and will have escalated even more in the last few weeks. I’ve attended various hospitals for work and non work related things over the last few months, in ambulances and on foot and there are delays.
Sounds like we are all getting bumped up a tier at midnight.
Is there a list somewhere showing which areas are going into tier 4? (Specific not just ‘midlands’)
It’ll be on gov.uk later
Wow, fair play.
Good luck buddy!
How is Cornwall being moved to tier 3 when the rate is lower than when most places were tier 2?
So it seems some way off the 2 million a week figure branded about. I doubt in the second week there will be that many
Tier status isn’t solely driven by case rate, ICU capacity will drive status as much as anything else.