Dying at home from Covid 19

Perhaps they want to die at home and not be separated from their family. Perhaps they have serious underlying medical problems and realise they will probably die anyway.

People are dying for all sorts of reasons. Yes as a direct and indirect result of Covid. Because they don't want to bring additional strain on the NHS or because the don't want to go near a hospital. I also suspect it's because operations and appointments have been cancelled. I know someone in daily agony as their scheduled op was postponed. This crisis is reaping a lot more death and general suffering apart from the obvious.

No these aren’t Covid deaths.

Pijachu has somewhat rephrased what was a newspaper article to support her own views and doctored the figures rather. It would be interesting to read the actual minutes of the meeting.

For instance, the “one or two a week”.

London ambulance service last year attended over 20,000 code red calls were the patient had no pulse and had stopped breathing. Obviously these weren’t all heart attacks but a large oropotion would have been. I make that around 400 a week,

There is a rise. But Im not sure what Pikachus point is and I dislike inaccurate spin.

Why would they be afraid to go into hospital if they have
Coronavirus?

Yes, they are dying from Coronavirus. You haven’t read the link Oops ...

Yes, it says these people are afraid to go into hospital and also they don’t want to overburden the NHS.

Had you taken the time to read my post correctly you will see it is NOT a case of spreading alarm but minute of a *report
from A&E* health chiefs.

What do you think deaths in the community means?

But these people aren’t dying from Covid 19 are they?

I can’t see the why people wouldn’t call an ambulance in an emergency, yes we can ‘tip over’ alarmingly quickly , but my GP called me within an hour last week when I was having breathing problems and as usual told me to call 999 if I worsened.

If people are afraid to go into hospital then that’s a separate issue.

Are you saying that the ambulances aren’t reaching them in time?
Again that’s a separate issue.
The problem with Newspapers is that they are very good at spreading alarm, they use words like, potentially and might be. No hard facts

Don’t understand what you are trying to say BlueBelle

But surely that’s only to be expected

link for those who want to read the article in full