The answer is staff living on site until the crisis eases. Many who have a family member working in the sector probably wouldnât agree with that idea but thatâs the only answer.
Obviously hygiene standards are lax and staff are carrying the virus into the homes.
Families of nursing home occupants arenât allowed visit so any other reason bandied about is horseshit.
It isnât really imo. Itâs far more likely the virus is everywhere and has been for a while now. If a 1000 people between the ages of 25 and 45 get the flu how many die? If 1000 thousand nursing home occupants get it the death rate is much higher Iâd imagine. Nursing homes had visiting restrictions before we went into lock down too and i severely doubt the hygiene of the nurses is an issue or it would be an issue in hospitals too.
90% of people are still testing negative though, so either theyâve had it and its passed so test negative or it simply isnât very widespread
What are you trying to say?
We need those antibody tests asap.
We havenât the capacity to deal with swab tests at the moment unfortunately
That nearly everyone in the country has already gotten it. It just didnât effect many people.
Very soon theyâll become more important than the other test as we are now in full lock down.
When did nursing homes close to visitors, and was it a nationwide directive or decided by management on a case by case basis?
Varadkarâs speech in Washington was on Thursday 12th and schools, crèches etc closed that evening. Were nursing homes included in that?
There had been press reports earlier that week containing Department of Health guidance that nursing homes didnât need to ban visitors.
While it would be ideal if we could do them. The UK doing them would be a start as we arenât far off them. Itâs give us an idea of whether itâs worth us finding out anyway
Quit making stuff up.
No technically about it. Youâd be well within the scope of your powers to deny landing.
I see what you mean about the flights
Mad that the airport is open for passenger flights
Super Tony told the nursing homes to cop onto themselves that there was no need for them to close
They are running these flights so they donât have to refund anyone is it?
There seems to be huge variance between countries in the death rate, testing patterns, cases etc. I donât know could you build a strategy based out of reports from anywhere else.
Germany were getting the same and testing the bollix off everyone
Huh? It makes sense lad If you think about it.
Well if you found out that say 30% of the UK was infected. You could at least say, right itâs worthwhile us checking ourselves and seeing what the story is here. If they found no major difference it wouldnât be worth wasting the lab time and energy.
Italy are including deaths of people who test positive but arenât effected by the virus in their deaths apparently. Iâm not sure other countries are doing that.
Youâve it arseways I think. They arenât including deaths from care homes because they havenât been tested
They cant get people from care homes to hospitals so are trying to treat them in situ. Fucking horrible
