But but but but Corbyn would have done worse blah blah blah.
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Spoke to nurse friend who works there the other day and she said it was quickly filling up, literally over a couple of days. Must be horrific up there to have 80 cases and this i fear will be a catalyst to pass through hospitals across south wales.
Eight dead and six in intensive care at Royal Glamorgan Hospital.
Taken from the BBC's rolling coverage;-
Eight patients have died with coronavirus at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital following an outbreak, the health board has confirmed.
Planned surgeries have been cancelled after 82 cases were linked to the hospital in Llantrisant.
Staff at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf, one of the areas in Wales under a local lockdown, are being tested amid the outbreak.
Paul Mears, the new chief executive of Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board, said that eight patients had died and six patients were in intensive care.
Planned surgeries have been temporarily suspended and patients who would usually be taken to A&E at the hospital in an emergency will also be sent elsewhere as part of the plan from 14:00 BST.
Mr Mears said the situation had escalated quite rapidly over the weekend and at the beginning of this week.
He said: “Clearly the situation is very significant there and is posing a challenge to us in terms of managing the spread of infection within the facility."
Some better news, although the study only relates to England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54366478
It's very difficult for me to see much good news in any of the reports that are publicised. So many "experts" have so many differing views it's difficult to make any sense out of them. For example this quote from the BBC article counters the conclusion that cases are slowing down:
"However, Prof Oliver Johnson, from the University of Bristol, said the conclusion that cases were slowing down was "wrong and dangerous".
We expect experts to be more or less on the same page; they look at the same science and figures and conclude differently causing either false hope or exaggerated fears. It must be very difficult for central and regional governments to know what to do next.
It was mooted some time ago about the kids October half term being a 2 weeker instead of the normal 1 week.
I think it was to do with a proposal about having a 5 week summer holiday though.
The way the 2nd wave is now progressing it wouldn't be such a bad idea if the numbers keep climbing to just close everything down for 2 weeks. In theory....like the Italians did, just shut it all and everyone stay home. However it would cause absolute bedlam and chaos with the dimwit panic buyers on supermarket sprints and house party enthusiasts who would piss it up for a fortnight.
It is nothing, I’m sure even if we gave the dumbest fwits a choice of two weeks doing nothing at all for a winter and summer of freedom they would take it, well, there’s always a few rugby club boys who wouldn’t conform, but generally most would. Food shopping would be one of the main issues. I’ve got about 2 weeks worth of frozen meals all the time, it’s not difficult but most would struggle with the concept I’m sure. They’d never shut the supermarkets, so it could still spread I guess.....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-54371859
At least the council leader said demand at the site had fallen.
that was what was supposed to happen last time, although the idea was to get test and trace up to speed before coming out of the lockdown, so you have your circuit breaker then you also stamp out any potential new outbreaks as quickly as possible.
unfortunately the execution of that plan was extremely bad.
I'm surprised this hasn't been metioned:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-54371859
although I don't know why it's in the politics section. The Abercynon test centre was the busiest in the UK and last week, (or late in the week before) carried uot 1065 test in 1 day, plus the tests its away teams did in other places.
Now it has been restricted to 400 tests a day because apparently someone had dictated that they don't want people going into Rhondda Cynon Taf to take tests because it is in partial lockdown.
This is insane, you can go in to work or to take your children to school but they are seeking to prevent people going to check if they have a life threatening disease.
Some of these test centres are run by NHS UK and some by NHS Wales and I am not trying to make any political point here. But whoever made this decree is clearly stark raving bonkers.