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I mentioned in a different thread that my 94 year-old father had 'disappeared' into hospital and we were having difficulty locating him.  He has now reappeared and is safely back in a new residential home, sitting out his regulation quarantine.

We last had contact with him in mid-March, when his home - rightly - enforced lockdown.  Shortly afterwards, he had another of his increasingly frequent bouts of pneumonia and was taken to hospital. He was tested for covid and showed negative.  When his pneumonia had abated and he was being prepared for return to his home, he was tested again and showed positive - it appears that he contracted it whilst on geriatric ward.  Over the following six weeks, he tested positive twice more, but, we are told, remained asymptomatic.  He finally tested negative last weekend and was allowed to return to his residential home.

Sadly, his dementia deteriorated significantly during his hospital stay, but that is a different and altogether less satisfactory story.  The main thing is that, despite his age and medical history appearing to be very much against him, he survived covid.

Paul

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Interesting....... and good news in a way. COVID is being presented as near certain death to anyone over 80...... Also good news that they are actually testing before returning them to their homes. Pity that took so long to sink in. You’d have hoped it was obvious from the outset.

There is little good news in living with dementia though :ermm:

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1 hour ago, PeterC said:

it is going to be very difficult to keep oldies in nursing homes safe

You aren't going to do it via contact tracing that is for damn sure.  Worthless strategy with current virus levels rendered more worthless by incomplete and and unfit for purpose contact tracing system that in turn relies on >85% people actually downloading an app cooked up by a deeply untrustworthy government using deeply untrustworthy companies...... Hands up all those who think that downloading the app will be worthwhile and safe........ (my hand is NOT up)

I really hope that one day the clusterfuck that is UK Covid "strategy" (hah!) is properly examined and leads to some very senior heads on pikes.  And I'm talking about political heads, not scientific ones.

 

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"the clusterfuck that is UK Covid "strategy""

Nick is not the first to consider that our nation's managers have responded poorly to the epidemic.     But few are as eminent and well placed to know just how poor that response has been than Richard Horton, the Editor of the Lancet.      The Lancet is an ancient (est.1823) medical journal, that is one of the few that is independant of the medical hierachy (eg BMJ, New England Journal).   In medicine, it today holds a position equivalent to that of "Nature" in general science, and Horton has been its Editor for the last  27 years.   As such, he writes regularly in the Lancet, and elsewhere, and his work is informed and informative.

And Horton has just published "The Covid-19 Catastrophe: What's gone wrong, and how to stop it happening again".     There, he shows the repeated warnings of the probability of a global pandemic, how easily it would spread and how little we would be protected by immunity from previous infections, the prescriptions for prevention and management that were widely and authoritatively available, and the details that were available early in the epidemic from China to show that this was that global event.      Yet so little was done, and what was done, too late.

Many will argue that the post mortem (!!!) on the handling of Covid must wait for the cool and complete historical analysis.    But Horton is a pre-eminent medical journalist, and journalism is the first draft of history.      Arm yourself with the information to understand and interpret what will undoubtedly be a slanted and partisan analysis by reading his book.     

JOhn   

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