COVID-19: Official Advice Behind the Curve.

I see that official advice for carers is still lagging behind scientific evidence.

Advice for carers is not to use PPE unless the carer or the person receiving care are symptomatic.

I'm not sure advice to carers to continue caring whilst symptomatic is particularly good advice. You shouldn't just be slapping PPE on whilst suffering from the virus. You should not be in work. Period.

But the risk is still asymptomatic people. PPE should be worn at all times. But I assume there's hardly enough PPE to supply the NHS let alone carers. Back to my idea of creating a production facility in the UK.

I see that Portsmouth is getting it's own sample collecting site, that should be up and running this week. Possibly.

There's a site next door to work that has had a lot of activity over the past few weeks, which is associated with the virus outbreak. The building has just been sorted and sports a nice lick of fresh paint and has had a ton of concrete poured to level the floors.

I suspect this will be the testing facility that samples from the Portsmouth collection centre will be brought to. However no equipment has been installed yet, the building is a bare shell.

That may not be up and running this week, because the lab equipment is pretty delicate and takes time to get up and running both staff-wise and equipment-wise.

But for fuck;s sake, can we have some sensible advice for carers please?