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A week after returning from school and colleges and as we enter flu season and without blood, of course, other people will worry about coughing or inhaling at a time of COVID.
Calls to 811 caused a short circuit in the line and blocked people.
They didn’t even hear the loud voice saying, “Your call is for us; stay online. There are 10 appellants in front of you. “
No, they got an old busy signal. In 2020, busy signal.
Health Minister Randy Delorey said the government forecasts figures founded in the early days of the pandemic in March, when 811 won about 1,475 calls a day, figures were closer to 1,800 this week.
Prime Minister Stephen McNeil said he was confident there was a shortage of staff and not a challenge with the telephone line’s capacity. I’m not so sure.
If there were no challenges with telephone lines, others would receive a message thanking them for their patience and asking them to wait for the next representative.
When callers get a busy signal, the message is: “Sorry, we are too busy to fix your COVID problems. Please remember later. “
This week, the federal government announced a $19 billion program to help Canada open safely. Nova Scotia will get $289 million, a component of which will be for the 811 system. It will also be used for testing, touch research, intellectual health, prevention and non-public protective equipment.
For others who worry that their covered nose, or their child’s covered nose, may be a manifestation of COVID, the express cause of challenge 811 is not the challenge.
The challenge is that they can’t get answers and recommendations on what they’ll do next. People don’t necessarily know if a sore throat, nasal discharge and coughing results in a cold, flu or COVID.
From what I’ve noticed over the years, most people can’t even notice the difference between the flu and an embedded one. You hear others describe their bloody as “a touch of flu. “
But flu is a much more serious challenge than a cold, it’s a serious respiratory disease that kills about 6,500 Canadians a year.
And so in this confusion between COVID-19.
If you’re looking to figure out the difference between flu and COVID yourself, the 811 doesn’t make it any less difficult for you. The COVID self-assessment consultant asks you to call if you have had a fever or cough, sore throat, nasal discharge, headache or shortness of breath in the last two days.
And then you get a busy signal.
I have not discovered a tool in 811 to help you distinguish between a cold, the flu, and COVID.
I have searched for this information on other reliable websites and learned this: there are no transparent or simple answers.
These are all contagious viral respiratory diseases that affect the lungs and breathing.
But COVID can also cause long-term disorders, such as neurological symptoms, inflammation, joint disorders, and injuries to organs such as the heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain. COVID symptoms also occur with loss of smell and taste.
The onset of COVID symptoms is five to seven days, but symptoms can take up to two weeks to appear and, in some cases, there are no symptoms. Flu symptoms tend to appear one to four days after exposure.
The way to know for sure is to take a test, and if you have to rely on 811 to get the test, you find it in a cycle of unsatisfactory frustration.