Yes as pupil class sizes increase with staff sickness, safeguarding and hse will become a increasing issue especially those in a sen environment.

it will become baby sitting rather than a healthy and safe learning environment.

I’ve been following this chap for a while now and his videos are very informative.

He’s just posted some information in a video that I thought may have been ‘fake news’ when I first heard about it, but coming from him I take more notice.

The theory is that taking anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen may increase your risk of complications.

 

https://youtu.be/EuWo5lmWuZI

 

He also reckons you should not take medication to reduce your fever unless you cannot cope with the discomfort.

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Breaking: BBC to delay TV licence fee changes for the over-75s until August

I am no expert, but I think he is probably right.

 

My daughter's school had a number of kids taken out on Friday (and today too, I imagine) as they have pre-existing conditions, or are in situations such as mine. 16 students were sent home in a 2 hour period as a result of high temp/sore throat/feeling unwell generally.

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Iran have reported 1,053 new cases and 129 new deaths

Total now 14,991 and 853 deaths

I really want to know this. French govt are promoting it, but I've also heard people say it is not true/no firm evidence. Would be good to know.

 

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I was just at the hospital (not related to the infection)

I heard the nurses talking and it seems that they were quiet short on staff themselves due to staff having to self isolate.

That and ventilators are a cause of massive concern. Cuts to the NHS over the last 10 years could well and truly come back to haunt this government

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Iran have reported 1,053 new cases and 129 new deaths

Total now 14,991 and 853 deaths

This has its upsides. There is silence where I live (North Downs near Canterbury). Not a single plane in the sky where usually there are two or three every couple of minutes. No road noise from the top lane. Just bird song. Incredible.

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My daughter (10) has coronavirus. I'm so angry about the official response to the situation that I'm going to fucking well tweet about it.

— Rachael Gilmour (@Rachael_Gilmour) March 16, 2020

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The PMs spokemans is giving an update. Schools will remain open for now. There is nothing new being said.

Apparently we are testing more people that nearly every other country.

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I loved the following comment in the guardian, oh the stupidity!

"Germany, France, Spain and Italy have all been hit much harder than the UK, despite the fact that the UK has by far a greater connection with China than any of these nations. I'd say we have systems in place, and a culture that makes the virus harder to propagate through our population.

It should be remembered that it isn't our country that has opened Pandora's box, and we shouldn't look east for the solution. The Confucian mind feels justified in recording aspiration as truth, and Amy dissent from that punished as dissonant, and lacking in harmony."

It's been reported in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammatory-drugs-may-aggravate-coronavirus-infection


Might at least be advisable to stick to paracetamol if you can (and if you have any!)

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30 new cases in Wales

Confirmed cases now 124.

The British Society for immunology questions the UK's herd immunity stance. It also calls for more social distancing measures now and for HMG to release its modelling.

https://www.immunology.org/news/bsi-open-letter-government-sars-cov-2-outbreak-response

British soldier infected

A British soldier has been infected with coronavirus and is in hospital in Ostroda, northern Poland, Polish state-run news agency PAP said on Monday, quoting a military spokesman.

Poland has so far reported 150 cases of coronavirus and three deaths.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-to-make-announcement-on-covid-19-measures-today-says-pms-adviser-dominic-cummings-11958164 

Not sure whether you have seen this relatively recent paper?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703655/

Is fever good or bad? Scientifically, we just do not know. However, if we take the evolutionary perspective, then blunting of the adaptive febrile response must be maladaptive. Fever is estimated to be more than 4 million years old and has been documented in the phyla Vertebrata, Arthropoda, and Annelida (7). Despite its long history of study, the exact mechanism of fever and its potentially protective effect is not fully delineated. One could hypothesize that treatment of fever compromises immune competence and renders patients more susceptible to infection. Take, for example, the classic experiment by Kluger et al. in 1981 (21,22). Here, Kluger et al. infected cold-blooded iguanas with bacteria. He gave them the opportunity to seek heat via sunlamps and all but one sought the warmth to raise their temperature. The one who did not was the only one who died. Next, he injected the iguanas with bacteria and gave them antipyretics. The iguanas that were able to mount a fever despite the antipyretic were the only ones that survived. This simplistic experiment, in addition to the biologic plausibility for the beneficial effects of fever, now supported by several key randomized controlled trials, suggests maybe the pendulum is due to swing back to a more permissive approach to fever.

While clinicians will likely continue to argue the validity of the proposed adaptive or maladaptive mechanisms of fever, recent studies such as the one by Young et al. should support reconsideration of the Pavlovian treatment response to elevated temperature in the critical care setting.

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NHS staff to be tested

"Mr Johnson has responded to questions about the testing of vital NHS staff, his spokesman saying Number 10 will set out their plans to test them "shortly".

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-to-make-announcement-on-covid-19-measures-today-says-pms-adviser-dominic-cummings-11958164 

I think they’ve reiterated that herd immunity is not a policy of HMG’s plan but a scientific observation. 

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I don't believe them. They were clear on Thursday and Friday that this is our plan. It's all muddy.

 

Virgin Atlantic are asking staff to take unpaid leave for 8 weeks, they plan to ground 80% of their fleet.

Obviously the directors can only afford a 15% paycut

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Agreed. The are changing the narrative as opposition to it escalated. 

There is a lot of smoke and mirrors from government right now.

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Transport for London says passenger numbers were down on the tube last week by 19% and by 10% on buses.

TfL says it will need financial support from the government and that its best case scenario is that the coronavirus outbreak will cost it £500m.