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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    No, @Uff, I wasn't offered them together.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    I know quite a few who have had a ‘cold’ followed by COVID. It could be the test doesn’t pick it up or just two bugs overlapping.

     
    I’m a bit concerned that the numbers are going up yet testing isn’t widespread so that must be an under-report. 

    I always use my hospital’s ITU and general ward figures as an indicator of ‘badness’ so it will be interesting to see what the situation is like when I return to work next week. In previous years it has been a good prediction of impending chaos when the numbers in hospital start increasing. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    @AuntyRach, I have seen last weeks figures and they don’t look good.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Up to the 12th October our main hospital has 84 patients in wards and one on a Ventilator. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    84 isn’t good, even if incidental and they are not unwell with it. With those numbers, it spreads through staff too. 

    It becomes a massive sudoku puzzle to move patients and staff to try to contain positive patients.
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    It's been reported today that the current wave has reached its peak, earlier than expected (they don't know why) and cases are dropping.
    I do hope that's true.

    We personally don't know of any particularly bad cases recently.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    punkdoc said:
    No, @Uff, I wasn't offered them together.
    Ok thanks punkdoc. Do different health authorities have different procedures? No particular reason for asking, just curiosity. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I was told that our GP practice would be doing them together, but in the end I booked them separately, COVID will be next week at the rugby club and I had my flu jab today at the pharmacy at the supermarket, very convenient because I needed shopping and petrol anyway.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Last year, we had both autumn jabs at the same time at the GP practice. This year, the practice weren’t doing any covid jabs, and only started their flu jab clinics this past weekend. Booked at the local Covid jab centre, which is luckily only ten minutes drive from here. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Most people I know who have covid haven’t been very bad with it, but I may not have probed much. I had a horrible flu in June and was out for weeks. I have never tested positive for covid - through the whole shebang. One of the few left. That doesn’t mean I have never had it, just that no tested showed positive.  

    I don’t have kids, don’t work in an office, don’t use public transport much and don’t go to clubs, pubs etc. so have probably I have just not been around the virus as much as most people. I do wonder if that means it might wallow me badly when I do get it. I know friends who have had it four times (various variants). 
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