Schools not being closed as we are not yet at the right stage/time
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Whitty: "this is now accelerating and will accelerate really quite rapidly"
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"This is going to go on for some time. This is going to have to be a prolonged period".
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"The good news is the chances of dying are very low. Of those who have symptoms majority will have mild or moderate disease and will not need the NHS. Overall mortality rate a bit less than 1%"
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"Three groups of deaths. The direct deaths caused by
#COVIDー19. There are other deaths which if NHS is overwhelmed then ppl die from indirect deaths. We are trying to reduce those indirect deaths. Third, some of our measures could negatively impact on health of people"1 reply 11 retweets 22 likesShow this thread -
People over 70, pregnant women and those who have significant underlying condition (I.e. must need winter flu jab) must take additional care so they do not need to go to hospital and risk catching it. "This is absolutely critical".
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Whitty underlines - if ONE person in your household is infected the ENTIRE household must go into lockdown for 14 days as there is a reasonably high chance others will catch it.
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"The next few weeks and months are going to be enormously difficult for the NHS"
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"People should avoid unnecessary visits to care homes" -Johnson
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UK government will be scaling up testing in coming weeks. A test is being developed that will be able to see if somebody has had
#COVIDー19 but shown no symptoms. That will be "transformational" says Whitty9 replies 25 retweets 45 likesShow this thread
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