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

Has anyone else had any experience of returning to the UK and required COVID tests not arriving?

Flew back from Poland yesterday and due to take a day 2 test tomorrow. Ordered online on friday morning (i know, a little late!) and i'm a bit concerned it wont arrive by tomorrow. Would have thought the order would have flagged up that it may not arrive in time.

EDIT: Test kits just arrived. Turns out the testing company don't believe in dispatch emails.

The guardian has a nice dashboard.

Hospital admissions also going up now...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/covid-uk-coronavirus-cases-deaths-and-vaccinations-today

Hopefully vaccination means deaths won't rise much ...

So not nearly as sharp a rise in admissions/deaths as the previous 2 waves, thanks. To be clear, this is not me trying to belittle anything, just having conversations with anxious "well what's the point" type family members. "Why be careful when no one else is, there's going to he a third wave regardless?" or "We're all doomed, why did I bother with the vaccine and how shit it made me feel?"

So far Case rise:-> hospital admission rise is a 2 week lag.
Anecdotally-
Over the weekend, in which we had record numbers of attendances to the department (as- seemingly- did everywhere - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-emergency-hospital-patients-safety-b1868711.html), there was not a substantial percentage with covid as main complaint.
This weekend coming may tell a different story.

A bit crap. Got the 2 older kids to book in their jabs on Thurs night. Middle child got pfizered up yesterday. No1 was due in another week or so but phoned (from up north) to say one of his housemates tested positive.
Saturday he's also positive - minor symptoms.
Sunday am - feeling much worse.
Last night we come out of cinema to be greeted by a text to say he can't breath properly, has blue lips and has called an ambulance. Paramedics check him over and say his stats aren't great but he's probably OK to stay home. Didn't like the 'probably', but he was sounding slightly better.

Waiting for an update this morning, but he's on student time...will wake him up shortly.

Gotcha, will keep an eye on it. Thanks.

Last night we come out of cinema to be greeted by a text to say he can't breath properly, has blue lips and has called an ambulance.

Shit! Fingers crossed

Jesus! Hope he’s better this morning.

Sending healing wishes. Hope the medics are right.

Jesus, fingers crossed @villa-ru

Good old "All or nothing thinking", I guess online articles will have some remedies against that way of thinking?

Sure there is a third wave, but long Covid sucks. For others and themselves. Perhaps that'll convince them?

Also I get people want to go out, why not drink / socialise outside? Maybe that works for them?

Not looking forward to AZ round 2 feeling shite, but even less looking forward to Covid. At least with a vaccine I'm in control if that makes sense?

Some people say it's better to explain what you know. Don't argue just say "ok this I know, what do you think?"

Oh no :(
Finger crossed for good news!

Does he have a fingerclip oxygen meter?

Can post mine if you think that helps. Will take 2 days though cos Irish sea in-between but happy to post.

Thanks all. Significantly better this morning thankfully.
(He might listen more closely to his mother's advice on taking paracetamol/ibuprofen to manage his temperature in the future.)

Bit of a fright when 5+ hours away. Surprisingly for students, they do have both a thermometer and oxygen meter in the house so he has been able to keep an eye on things.
Hopefully through the worst now...

Surprisingly for students, they do have both a thermometer and oxygen meter in the house

Probably use them for some cool new way to take the drugs. Bloody students.

Glad to hear he's doing better.

Great news, hope the continued trend is upwards.

Where are the hospital admissions numbers?

Most places are scraping the data from here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ which is pretty comprehensive.

The "All X data" links (for vaccinations, healthcare, deaths, etc) provide much better breakdowns and access to the underlying data.

How long after being in contact with someone with coronavirus would you expect a PCR test to flag it up?

Between 1 and 14 days.

thanks

My six year old daughter had a COVID test this morning, she was pretty chill about it. Results are back in 48 hours. Probably unrelated but my sense of smell has gone weird recently..

Looks like covid could be linked to brain damage
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1?s=04

EDIT: I know not peer reviewed yet, but interesting non the less.

So Cornwalls covid cases have gone above average for the first time, now what happened in Cornwall recently?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-57566646

Well, it has been the G7, but equally it was half term the week prior, so an influx of visitors from areas which had higher rates at that time.
I heard a local PHE scientist yesterday claiming that the rates were rising prior to the G7.
Reality might be somewhere in between.
Here in Bournemouth we’ve had massive increases too and the G7 wasn’t anywhere near…

Am looking for the rules for households who recieve visitors from overseas (from an Amber country, so they will need to quarantine for 10 days and get tested). What can the people in the recieving bubble do?

See gov website all there quite clearly.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-quarantine-when-you-arrive-in-england#rules-for-the-people-youre-staying-with