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Time to check all sufferers at home:
Concerns are raised that people isolating at home with worsening Covid symptoms may not call for medical help early enough when they enter the second, more severe, phase, possibly reducing their chances of survival. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/fears-britons-self-isolating-covid-19-seek-help-too-late
Concerns are raised that people isolating at home with worsening Covid symptoms may not call for medical help early enough when they enter the second, more severe, phase, possibly reducing their chances of survival. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/fears-britons-self-isolating-covid-19-seek-help-too-late
Of course there are huge numbers isolating at home but there are even greater numbers of willing volunteers who can call on the sufferers.
Now is the time for the fittest to be even more active to support everyone in need - instead of locked in at home being bored.
Now is the time for the fittest to be even more active to support everyone in need - instead of locked in at home being bored.
âIf a patient is developing pneumonia, it can get progressively worse very quickly so early admission upon the first signs of difficulty breathing are very important.. People recovering at home need a monitoring system in place too. Something we have thus far not introduced.â
Here's a problem - These people are not told to inform the health service:
The early symptoms of mild disease are a persistent dry cough, a raised temperature and shortness of breath. The advice to anyone with those symptoms is to self-isolate at home.
The early symptoms of mild disease are a persistent dry cough, a raised temperature and shortness of breath. The advice to anyone with those symptoms is to self-isolate at home.
If symptoms worsen or they still have a high temperature, they must fill in a form on the NHS 111 coronavirus website if they can â and to call NHS 111 only if they cannot do that.
Depending on their answers, they may get a visit from a doctor or be admitted to hospital.
Depending on their answers, they may get a visit from a doctor or be admitted to hospital.
Some German cities introduced a âcorona taxiâ service, allowing medics to visit patients with the virus at home and assess their progress. Virologists and other doctors recognised it often comes in two waves and on the eighth day, patientsâ health can take a turn for the worse.
Daily phone calls and house visits would totally overwhelm the doctors, which is why medical students are being drafted in. Visits are necessary because âoften patients donât have the courage to ring up the clinic and donât actually take their worsening state seriouslyâ.
Many have been brought into hospital and put on ventilators as a result. That crucial move made just in time is believed to have saved many lives in Germany. The taxi crews have received letters of thanks from patients, crediting them with saving their lives.
Patients with confirmed infections [or suspected] are called regularly by student doctors manning phone lines, and based on their info, a taxi crew can then arrange to visit.
Four taxis â small buses usually used for school runs â travel round the city visiting patients.
Four taxis â small buses usually used for school runs â travel round the city visiting patients.
UK's Office for National Statistics has recently begun to include deaths from Covid-19 in the community, including care homes. They show the total was more than 20% higher than the figure for hospital deaths alone.
Please consider some of the above from Germany too.
Please consider some of the above from Germany too.
