Will CV hospital cases ban visitors?

[LadyCoronaDeVirus]

If you catch Coronavirus and it is so serious that it warrant hospital treatment, as opposed to just self isolating at home, will visitors be banned?

I imagine that really visitors should be banned, but there doesn't seem to be any clear advice about this so far.

I’m wondering if they should just ban visitors in hospital anyway. My dads going in for cancer treatment on Weds and although I will want to see him I am thinking it might be best just to stay away. I’m not in one of the self isolate groups btw but any one of us could be incubating it at any time. At least dad is going to a hospital where it’s all single rooms

Ah misread your thread sorry. I’d imagine visitors would either be banned because they had to aleady self isolate or visiting would render them having to do so

Actually I think your point is really valid @PointlessAddict maybe hospitals will just become no-go zones, especially high risk patients?

It just sounds a bit terrifying that a loved one may be in hospital suffering from coronavirus but won't be able to see them at all.

I know, especially as it’s likely to be someone already vulnerable x

I don't think anyone other than staff with protective clothing will be allowed near.

Although I think it will be the case that no visitors to patients with Coronavirus, I do hope the patients have internet access though, so can have contact with their loved ones, a very lonely time otherwise, feeling unwell and scared.

I do hope the patients have internet access though, so can have contact with their loved ones, a very lonely time otherwise, feeling unwell and scared.

I hope this is the case too! I honestly hadn't thought about this in any depth until today and it's quite a horrid thought you won't be allowed any contact if the worst were to happen.

I think on adult wards visitors will be banned or severely limited.

I work on a children's ward and visitors will be banned for the cv patient. Parents will obviously be allowed to stay but must remain in the cubicle and cannot access communal areas. We will feed the parents.

"But the hardest part might be that they can't see in person — can't touch or hold — the person they love who may be in pain, and scared and confused, as they die alone. It may be like seeing somebody drown, at a distance."

From an NPR article about this:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?live=1&storyId=813113958

Last winter our local hospital banned all under 12s from visiting for the winter session and later banned all visitors for a shorter period of time except for visit to terminally ill patients. I can easily imagine a situation where visitors are banned from hospitals.

There are plans to take over other buildings, like disused warehouses,where some kind of lower risk perhaps recovering patients could go. Then whole wards could be dedicated to the infectious ICU patients.

Are there not visitors restrictions in place already in the UK? We don’t have as many cases as you do, and there are already restrictions in a number of hospitals and all nursing homes.