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By Michelle Roberts
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Covid testing is being scaled back even further in England from April.
It is part of the "living with Covid" approach that relies on vaccines
to keep people safe.
Most staff and patients in hospitals and care homes will no longer be
given swab tests, even if they have symptoms.
Some will though, such as staff working with severely immunocompromised >patients or if there is an outbreak on a ward or in a hospice or prison,
for example.
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The long-running Office for National Statistics Covid infection survey
that estimated how many people in the community had the virus each week
- based on nose and throat swabs from volunteers - has already come to
an end.
The final one suggested 1.7 million people - about one out of every 35
(2.7%) - had Covid in the week ending 13 March, a14% rise on the
previous week.
But the UK Health Security Agency says thanks to the continuing success
of the vaccination programme, testing in England can now become more
like the approach used for other common respiratory infections such as flu.
Covid booster jab to be offered this spring
Although, it can quickly be scaled up again if another big wave of
Covid, or a new variant, starts putting pressure on the NHS.
And scientists will keep checking some of the swabs tests that are
given, to see how the virus is mutating and whether there are fresh
concerns.
The testing that is ending includes:
routine asymptomatic testing for staff and patients being admitted to
all health and social-care settings, including hospitals and care homes
(most of this testing paused in August 2022 anyway)
routine symptomatic testing of staff and residents in care settings
routine symptomatic testing in prisons, places of detention and
homelessness, refuge and asylum settings
polymerase chain-reaction (PCR) testing outside NHS settings
Lateral-flow tests will continue for:
people in the community and residents in care or other high-risk
settings who have symptoms and are eligible for Covid treatment, to
enable rapid access to these drugs
some NHS staff who have symptoms and work on wards with severely >immunosuppressed patients
hospice staff with symptoms
all patients being discharged from hospitals into care settings
outbreak testing in the NHS, hospices, prisons, places of detention and
care, homelessness, refuge and asylum settings
some hospital patients with symptoms, where needed to inform decisions
such as ward transfers
UKHSA chief executive Dr Dame Jenny Harries said: "Fewer people now >experience severe illness due to Covid - due to vaccinations, >infection-related immunity and treatments for those who need them - and
the risk of hospitalisation has decreased overall.
"This means we are now able to further bring our testing programmes in
line with management of other viral infections whilst still maintaining
focus on those at highest risk, to protect them from the virus.
"Covid and other respiratory illnesses haven't gone away - and simple
actions like washing your hands and staying at home and avoiding
vulnerable people when unwell can make a big difference.
"For those at highest risk of severe illness, the spring booster
programme also provides an opportunity to keep immunity topped up."
Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: "Testing was
crucial to our response during the height of the pandemic - and our >successful vaccination programme has protected the most vulnerable,
saved thousands of lives and has helped us all to live with Covid.
"Thankfully, we are now able to scale back our testing programme while >remaining committed to ensuring those at highest risk and more prone to >severe illness get the protection they need."
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65127635
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Coronavirus pandemic
Lateral flow test being performed
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By Michelle Roberts
Digital health editor
Covid testing is being scaled back even further in England from April.
It is part of the "living with Covid" approach that relies on vaccines
to keep people safe.
Most staff and patients in hospitals and care homes will no longer be
given swab tests, even if they have symptoms.
Some will though, such as staff working with severely immunocompromised
patients or if there is an outbreak on a ward or in a hospice or prison,
for example.
ADVERTISEMENT
The long-running Office for National Statistics Covid infection survey
that estimated how many people in the community had the virus each week
- based on nose and throat swabs from volunteers - has already come to
an end.
The final one suggested 1.7 million people - about one out of every 35
(2.7%) - had Covid in the week ending 13 March, a14% rise on the
previous week.
But the UK Health Security Agency says thanks to the continuing success
of the vaccination programme, testing in England can now become more
like the approach used for other common respiratory infections such as flu. >>
Covid booster jab to be offered this spring
Although, it can quickly be scaled up again if another big wave of
Covid, or a new variant, starts putting pressure on the NHS.
And scientists will keep checking some of the swabs tests that are
given, to see how the virus is mutating and whether there are fresh
concerns.
The testing that is ending includes:
routine asymptomatic testing for staff and patients being admitted to
all health and social-care settings, including hospitals and care homes
(most of this testing paused in August 2022 anyway)
routine symptomatic testing of staff and residents in care settings
routine symptomatic testing in prisons, places of detention and
homelessness, refuge and asylum settings
polymerase chain-reaction (PCR) testing outside NHS settings
Lateral-flow tests will continue for:
people in the community and residents in care or other high-risk
settings who have symptoms and are eligible for Covid treatment, to
enable rapid access to these drugs
some NHS staff who have symptoms and work on wards with severely
immunosuppressed patients
hospice staff with symptoms
all patients being discharged from hospitals into care settings
outbreak testing in the NHS, hospices, prisons, places of detention and
care, homelessness, refuge and asylum settings
some hospital patients with symptoms, where needed to inform decisions
such as ward transfers
UKHSA chief executive Dr Dame Jenny Harries said: "Fewer people now
experience severe illness due to Covid - due to vaccinations,
infection-related immunity and treatments for those who need them - and
the risk of hospitalisation has decreased overall.
"This means we are now able to further bring our testing programmes in
line with management of other viral infections whilst still maintaining
focus on those at highest risk, to protect them from the virus.
"Covid and other respiratory illnesses haven't gone away - and simple
actions like washing your hands and staying at home and avoiding
vulnerable people when unwell can make a big difference.
"For those at highest risk of severe illness, the spring booster
programme also provides an opportunity to keep immunity topped up."
Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: "Testing was
crucial to our response during the height of the pandemic - and our
successful vaccination programme has protected the most vulnerable,
saved thousands of lives and has helped us all to live with Covid.
"Thankfully, we are now able to scale back our testing programme while
remaining committed to ensuring those at highest risk and more prone to
severe illness get the protection they need."
In the interim, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8) way to eradicate the COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to http://WDJW.great-site.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) for them to
call their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of
stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the best while
preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations
and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining via slip-RNA-replication to form
hybrids like http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current
COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65127635
Published
3 days ago
Share
Related Topics
Coronavirus pandemic
Lateral flow test being performed
IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
By Michelle Roberts
Digital health editor
Covid testing is being scaled back even further in England from April.
It is part of the "living with Covid" approach that relies on vaccines
to keep people safe.
Most staff and patients in hospitals and care homes will no longer be
given swab tests, even if they have symptoms.
Some will though, such as staff working with severely immunocompromised
patients or if there is an outbreak on a ward or in a hospice or prison, >>> for example.
ADVERTISEMENT
The long-running Office for National Statistics Covid infection survey
that estimated how many people in the community had the virus each week
- based on nose and throat swabs from volunteers - has already come to
an end.
The final one suggested 1.7 million people - about one out of every 35
(2.7%) - had Covid in the week ending 13 March, a14% rise on the
previous week.
But the UK Health Security Agency says thanks to the continuing success
of the vaccination programme, testing in England can now become more
like the approach used for other common respiratory infections such as flu. >>>
Covid booster jab to be offered this spring
Although, it can quickly be scaled up again if another big wave of
Covid, or a new variant, starts putting pressure on the NHS.
And scientists will keep checking some of the swabs tests that are
given, to see how the virus is mutating and whether there are fresh
concerns.
The testing that is ending includes:
routine asymptomatic testing for staff and patients being admitted to
all health and social-care settings, including hospitals and care homes
(most of this testing paused in August 2022 anyway)
routine symptomatic testing of staff and residents in care settings
routine symptomatic testing in prisons, places of detention and
homelessness, refuge and asylum settings
polymerase chain-reaction (PCR) testing outside NHS settings
Lateral-flow tests will continue for:
people in the community and residents in care or other high-risk
settings who have symptoms and are eligible for Covid treatment, to
enable rapid access to these drugs
some NHS staff who have symptoms and work on wards with severely
immunosuppressed patients
hospice staff with symptoms
all patients being discharged from hospitals into care settings
outbreak testing in the NHS, hospices, prisons, places of detention and
care, homelessness, refuge and asylum settings
some hospital patients with symptoms, where needed to inform decisions
such as ward transfers
UKHSA chief executive Dr Dame Jenny Harries said: "Fewer people now
experience severe illness due to Covid - due to vaccinations,
infection-related immunity and treatments for those who need them - and
the risk of hospitalisation has decreased overall.
"This means we are now able to further bring our testing programmes in
line with management of other viral infections whilst still maintaining
focus on those at highest risk, to protect them from the virus.
"Covid and other respiratory illnesses haven't gone away - and simple
actions like washing your hands and staying at home and avoiding
vulnerable people when unwell can make a big difference.
"For those at highest risk of severe illness, the spring booster
programme also provides an opportunity to keep immunity topped up."
Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: "Testing was
crucial to our response during the height of the pandemic - and our
successful vaccination programme has protected the most vulnerable,
saved thousands of lives and has helped us all to live with Covid.
"Thankfully, we are now able to scale back our testing programme while
remaining committed to ensuring those at highest risk and more prone to
severe illness get the protection they need."
In the interim, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
http://WDJW.great-site.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) for them to
call their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of
stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the best while
preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations
and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining via slip-RNA-replication to form
hybrids like http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current
COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65127635
Published
3 days ago
Share
Related Topics
Coronavirus pandemic
Lateral flow test being performed
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By Michelle Roberts
Digital health editor
Covid testing is being scaled back even further in England from April.
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: The LORD says "Blessed are you who hunger now ..."
Shame on andrew, look at his red face.
He is trying to pull a fast one. His scripture bit is found among these:
'14 Bible verses about Spiritual Hunger'
Psalms
81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: >open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Proverbs
13:25 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of >the wicked is in need.
Joel
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
Psalms
107 For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Acts
14:17 "Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by >giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying
your hearts with food and gladness."
someone eternally condemned & ever more cursed by GOD perseverated:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: a very very very simple definition of sin ...
Does andrew's "definition" agree with scripture? Let's see in 1 John:
John wrote this to christians. The greek grammer (sic) speaks of an ongoing >> status. He includes himself in that status.
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us.
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, >> and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is >> not in us.
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: The LORD says "Blessed are you who hunger now ..."
Shame on andrew, look at his red face.
He is trying to pull a fast one. His scripture bit is found among these:
'14 Bible verses about Spiritual Hunger'
Psalms
81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: >open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Proverbs
13:25 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of >the wicked is in need.
Joel
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
Psalms
107 For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Acts
14:17 "Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by >giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying
your hearts with food and gladness."
someone eternally condemned & ever more cursed by GOD perseverated:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: a very very very simple definition of sin ...
Does andrew's "definition" agree with scripture? Let's see in 1 John:
John wrote this to christians. The greek grammer (sic) speaks of an ongoing >> status. He includes himself in that status.
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us.
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, >> and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is >> not in us.
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: The LORD says "Blessed are you who hunger now ..."
Shame on andrew, look at his red face.
He is trying to pull a fast one. His scripture bit is found among these:
'14 Bible verses about Spiritual Hunger'
Psalms
81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: >open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Proverbs
13:25 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of >the wicked is in need.
Joel
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
Psalms
107 For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Acts
14:17 "Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by >giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying
your hearts with food and gladness."
someone eternally condemned & ever more cursed by GOD perseverated:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: a very very very simple definition of sin ...
Does andrew's "definition" agree with scripture? Let's see in 1 John:
John wrote this to christians. The greek grammer (sic) speaks of an ongoing >> status. He includes himself in that status.
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us.
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, >> and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is >> not in us.
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