Tag: Isolation

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Scrap Covid tests in schools, says Oxford vaccine pioneer

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 17 June 2021

Covid testing in schools is hugely disruptive and should be suspended, experts have said, as it emerged that up to 60 per cent of “positive” tests a week are coming back negative when checked.

Under plans to keep schools open, more than 50 million lateral flow tests have been carried out on youngsters, leading to thousands of pupils and their social bubbles being forced to self-isolate for 10 days.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/17/scrap-covid-tests-schools-says-oxford-vaccine-pioneer/

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People in Covid hotspots could get free accommodation for self-isolation – The Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 24 May 2021

Pilot schemes for nine of the worst-hit areas will see councils offer to house the contacts of positive virus cases in order to stop transmission in overcrowded households.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/24/people-covid-hotspots-could-get-free-accommodation-self-isolation/

Tags Accommodation, Compliance Checks, COVID-19, Hotspots, Housing, Isolation, Social Care, Social Distancing, The Telegraph, Transmission, Variants

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‘It’s the isolation’: parents on the impact of lockdown on children

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 10 February 2021

With many primary school pupils learning at home, and toddlers missing out on critical social interactions with their peers,parents of young children have concerns about the long-term impact of long periods spent at home.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/feb/10/its-the-isolation-parents-on-the-impact-of-lockdown-on-children

Tags Children, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Education, Homeschooling, Isolation, Lockdown, Schools, The Guardian, UK

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COVID-19: management of staff and exposed patients or residents in health and social care settings – GOV.uk

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 28 January 2021

Immunocompetent staff, patients and residents who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR should be exempt from routine re-testing by PCR or LFD antigen tests (for example, repeated whole setting screening or screening prior to hospital discharge) within a period of 90 days from their initial illness onset or test (if asymptomatic) unless they develop new COVID-19 symptoms. This is because fragments of inactive virus can be persistently detected by PCR in respiratory tract samples following infection – long after a person has completed their isolation period and is no longer infectious.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare-workers-and-patients-in-hospital-settings/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare-workers-and-patients-in-hospital-settings#section6

Tags Asymptomatic, COVID-19, Department of Health and Social Care, False Positive, Government, Health Care Workers, Infection Control, Isolation, PCR, Public Health England, Rapid Lateral Flow, Symptoms, Testing, Transmission, UK

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COVID-19 isolation having detrimental impact on children’s education and welfare, particularly the most vulnerable – Ofsted

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 15 December 2020

Repeated isolation has chipped away at the progress pupils have made since returning to school in September
The effectiveness of remote education is varied and difficult to determine
Children arriving at secure children’s homes are, in effect, put into solitary confinement
Many children with special education needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are not attending school, are struggling with remote learning and are at risk of abuse or neglect.
Even more schools report at least one child now being home schooled. Many parents doing this say their children will not return to school ‘until pandemic is over’

https://web.archive.org/web/20201215125700/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-isolation-having-detrimental-impact-on-childrens-education-and-welfare-particularly-the-most-vulnerable

Tags Children, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Education, Isolation, Lockdown, Ofsted, Social Distancing, UK

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Pandemic isolation has killed thousands of Alzheimer’s patients while families watch from afar – The Washington Post

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 16 September 2020

Since the pandemic began, Goerke’s wife, Denise — 63 years old and afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease — had declined dramatically. Left alone in her nursing home, she had lost 16 pounds, could not form the simplest words, no longer responded to the voices of her children.

In recent weeks, she had stopped recognizing even the man she loved.

Goerke, 61, could tell the isolation was killing his wife, and there was nothing he could do but watch. “Every day it gets a little worse,” he said. “We’ve lost months, maybe years of her already.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/16/coronavirus-dementia-alzheimers-deaths/

Tags Care Homes, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Elderly, Isolation, Social Distancing, The Washington Post, USA

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An Outbreak of Common Colds at an Antarctic Base after Seventeen Weeks of Complete Isolation – JSTOR (1973)

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 12 July 2020

17-week perfect Antarctic quarantine and someone still contracted a coronavirus.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3862013?seq=1

Commentary by Professor Michael Levitt:

Thanks so much. More people need to see what you posted. “Witness 17-week perfect Antarctic quarantine—someone still contracted a coronavirus!! https://t.co/bCXUrQdzOm”. So very hard to keep a virus from getting to its target. https://t.co/WYjuztabI7 pic.twitter.com/ZuM1FHLqry
— Michael Levitt (@MLevitt_NP2013) July 12, 2020