When should a woman have her first smear test?Smear tests start when you're in your 20s.
Ah yes the routine, no symptoms, bowel cancer test, how can I have forgotten that!Bowel cancer test. I will be receiving a test kit in the post very soon. Yes it is age related and I am grateful that we can be tested for potential serious medical conditions.
I just wish the lot who are running responses to Covid in this country were more reliable: I would value a more accurate figure that told me how many cases there were; I’d be able to judge whether it was ok to do various things like shop in person, see family who work in education, meet with friends.
Of course there’d always be the chance that those of us who are at a higher risk of a severe reaction to Covid would be exposed to people who’d not been tested at the optimum time, so a decent test and trace system would also help.
Yes, I look at that website. My problem is that wherever the figures come from they’re dependent upon the available results of tests, so they won’t reflect the real numbers, be they low or high. Asymptomstic, mild, carry on working cos the money’s needed: there are bound to be a fair number with it who won’t have been tested.
I just wish the lot who are running responses to Covid in this country were more reliable: I would value a more accurate figure that told me how many cases there were; I’d be able to judge whether it was ok to do various things like shop in person, see family who work in education, meet with friends.
Of course there’d always be the chance that those of us who are at a higher risk of a severe reaction to Covid would be exposed to people who’d not been tested at the optimum time, so a decent test and trace system would also help.
My area ;
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Coronavirus: Cases confirmed in Hampshire and Isle of Wight
The latest number of cases of Covid-19 has been confirmed as 7,047 in Hampshire and 433 on the Isle of Wight.
A rise of 24 cases in Hampshire since Saturday. The figure remains the same for the Isle of Wight.
The breakdown of the figures by local authority area is:
Hampshire - 5,456
Southampton - 1,027
Portsmouth - 564
Isle of Wight - 433
The BBC also provides this tool with a breakdown of the latest national coronavirus figures.
The coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease, known as Covid-19, was first confirmed in the UK at the end of January.
Data as of Sunday 6 September.
Are those figures the total infections recorded on that day/week, or are they the number of infections per 100,000 population?
Excellent news of a new trial on the benefit of VitD (in the form of calcifediol) on ppl admitted to hospital with Covid.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764
small trial, but truly impressive results. Hopefully someone will now fund a proper large scale trial.
Although nothing is stopping any of us supplementing in the meantime.
if you want John Campbell’s discussion on it (and another study) then here is the vid.
I have already encouraged all my family and friends to take plenty of VitD3 since it first hit the headlines in relation to Covid. I will circulate this video too, just in case they have trailed off in taking them.
Does it define “underlying condition”. I couldn’t see it. This saying much the same as most other reports in that most of the dead were not perfect specimens of health and were mostly old.
Does it define “underlying condition”. I couldn’t see it. This saying much the same as most other reports in that most of the dead were not perfect specimens of health and were mostly old.
“Underlying conditions“ can be a very long way from almost dead or serious long term additional complications.
You, and I, have an underlying condition so we would be written off as “Well they weren’t healthy anyway so they don’t count” despite not being in our 80’s. Personally I would hope for a few more decades yet of relatively good health if I can avoid a bad dose of covid in the meantime.
I do hope you are back at work since you are so lucky as not to be vulnerable to the virus. The country needs people like you who either won't catch it or would not suffer much if they did, to do their duty and return to work.But my average age isn't 84 though...and my personal "underlying condition" isn't really one any more so....
I'm going for a couple more decades too but don't expect anyone to look out for me.
Plus I'll have to really go some to find anyone to infect me where I live..
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