Coronavirus in the UK

Saw that on the BBC this afternoon, Estrella Catalan: Hospital nurse dies with Covid-19 - BBC News they didn't say she was Filipino but I knew she was as soon as I saw her picture and read her name.

Really sad

The WHO has been bought and paid for. Such a blatant whitewash is deserving of contempt and demand better clarity from research done by independent bodies.

Are you over 65?

I had a missed call from the surgery on Friday almost at close of business they phoned me to book my appointment, I will call them back at 8am on Monday, I'm 62.

I don't qualify for the online booking because I am under 65 but they called me to talk about the vaccine and told me to call back to my GP Surgery so I expect it is to arrange a vaccine appointment.

My doctor's surgery never calls me, the triage process also makes it almost impossible to get an appointment with my doctor, calling me out of the blue was a surprise and they called me at 5:43 when they were 15 minutes from closing.

I spoke to my consultant's registrar on the 5th as they finally got back to me for a follow up telephone appointment, they want to see me again because I still get infections and the Seton is constantly draining, I expressed to him that I was shielding because of being obese and because of the fistula in ano and that hoped I would get a vaccine sooner than his view that it would be another 6 months, maybe they had a word with my GP.

Who knows I will find out on Monday.

Well I have been told I am now eligible and that I will be invited on Wednesday after vaccine deliveries arrive at the medical centre here, I was asked if I wanted to take a standby slot and jumped at it, she said I should expect a call on Wednesday as it was very likely not everyone would turn up.

There was something on the radio this morning that anyone who had been admitted to hospital through A&E aged 16 or over during the last year was eligible although if you have asthma it has to be really bad, apparently they are not automatically eligible, I was admitted through A&E last year so I expect that is why I am eligible at age 62.

And just for fun I spent the night in hospital from 11:20pm on Saturday to Sunday at 1pm, utter crap tachycardia over 150 bpm and I nearly fainted, had medical and surgical investigate me, surgical did not think it was my fistula but I think that is the root cause, medical will treat me as an outpatient and fit me with something that records my heart rate and other telemetry to check for any arrhythmia, my ECG and bloods were all fine but they accepted that something was definitely not right.

So all that hard work shielding for the last however many months and I end up stuck in a hospital for 13 or 14 hours, I was wearing my FFP3 mask the whole time but you interact with so many people.

Got another Covid test, actually two they lost the first one , I asked if it was a quick one and they said yes but it is a PCR test that comes back in 20 minutes, they had abandoned lateral flow tests after they had 120 false negatives.

Also saw my surgeon from last year, reason he could not do the phone consultation back on the 5th of Feb was he was recovering from Covid and self isolating.