Coronavirus

[Witton Park]

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashi...ngden-18212057

My uncle was one of the 9 (it's probably more now) at Haslingden Hall. 7 of us attended his funeral last Thursday. He was in Blackburn infirmary for less than 24 hours at the end of April.
He counts in the ONS figures, but my mother told me yesterday that his test from hospital came back negative, so he isn't on the hospital Covid figures, or at least he shouldn't be.

So excuse me for any scepticism of the ONS figures, and even the hospital ones. I think it best to wait until we get in to next year and have some properly analysed excess death figures, and not ones modelled by the press either.

In East Lancs the daily figures for new cases yesterday were:
Blackburn with Darwen 3
Burnley 2
Hyndburn 0
Pendle 1
Rossendale 2

It's almost gone in the community here. I wouldn't be at all surprised if these were sadly all care home related.

Following on from my first knowledge of a non-Covid death that was on the covid list, I've now got my second.

Sadly in the last week, on my wife's side a long term family friend passed away.

Went in to hospital with breathing difficulties. Turned out to be a tumour and he only lasted a few days.

One of his two daughters was in the US and flew in immediatelt to see her Dad before he passed away. She wasn't allowed in to see him.
Only the other sister and Mum.

Covid was put on the death certificate and the family demanded it was removed.

Since then the test has come back negative - as of last night they still can't get it removed.

My next anecdote (so it will probably receive criticism) is from a relative who's a nurse. Woman fell off her horse, broke her leg, admitted to hospital as a Covid admission. My relative was on the ward where she was.
Tested after admission but negative.