Covid - news and views

Well the blue envelope arrived for me today! 5th March for my first jab, as an unpaid carer!

OH and son had their jabs a couple of weeks ago, both of them are in the extremely vulnerable category.!

 

Good news for you Robsail! 

About ruddy time as well. Pleased that you'll be getting some help by way of a vaccine.

Oh, sorry Robsail, for a while I thought you said were getting your First JOB as an unpaid carer  { dives n hides below t' keyboard  }

 

 

This could be an interesting headline to follow going forward, i think JVB first raised the issue on this forum and now it is reported that hundreds are coming forward and demanding that death certificates get changed to reflect the true cause of death  

Some while back HMG decreed that there would be no need for a post-mortem and possibly an inquest on anyone dying from Covid.  A host of reason make that sensible including infection prevention and the risk of  overwhelming the systems.   Inevitably some other causes will slip through the net.  

agreed, I for one will not care what goes on my death certificate but it is a bit rich if you get killed in a traffic accident but because you had covid-19 some 3 weeks before the death certificate could say died of covid-19 , or was as the case man of 99 with lots of underlying problems, goes to sleep and never wakens up = death from covid-19,  bet BJ is backing this one, could make his stats look a whole lot better

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I wonder what the people that are moaning think that changing a bit of paperwork will achieve.  The dead are dead, I doubt they will return (but I have been known to be wrong ).  

According to this interesting Government website such a death caused by a road accident wouldn't be recorded as COVID. However if during the process of recovering from an accident the patient caught COVID and subsequently dies it is possible that it would be recorded as a COVID death. 

The World Health Organisation say this:-

A COVID-19 death is defined for surveillance purposes as a death resulting from a clinically compatible illness in a probable or confirmed COVID-19 case, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death that cannot be related to COVID-19 disease (e.g. trauma)

It is possible, given the pressure the NHS has been under, that some of the deaths attributed to COVID could be suspect. Although some statistics say the number of COVID deaths is under reported. I am not even sure a post mortem would necessarily change the the reason and would probably put surviving families under even greater stress? Obviously people impacted by the sudden unexpected death of a close family member will have all sorts of things going around in their minds. Logically it seems a bit pointless to question but at times of grief logic doesn't come into it.

David