Corona virus in waterford

albert kidd

Just been told that the WRH is in lockdwn.. People running about with face masks and general chaos down there.!!..someone must of jinxed out city.. This week we had the up the ra debacle.. Then the Mary butler saga.. How do was reported dead(which was a false rumour) and now the deadly virus is here..my advice is don't go near the place until you really need to.. I'm going to sligo for the weekend to be safeðŸ‘.

blade1

albert kidd wrote: »

I'm going to sligo for the weekend to be safeðŸ‘.

I'd prefer the Corona virus! :pac:

Allinall

Did you read it on Waterford Whispers by any chance?

Are these people running around in face masks doctors and nurses?

I'm glad How Do is grand.

Aquos76

Ive been out in UHW every day over the last week, twice some days and yes it is on lock down, but its been like that since before Christmas, its nothing to do with the Coronavirus

friendlyfun

Howdo has nine lives

DeiseNew

friendlyfun wrote: »

Howdo has nine lives

I have not seen HowDo for a long time, is he still around? I don't really ask about local characters in Waterford anymore ha ha

friendlyfun

DeiseNew wrote: »

I have not seen HowDo for a long time, is he still around? I don't really ask about local characters in Waterford anymore ha ha

He's in a nursing home afaik!

friendlyfun

Aquos76 wrote: »

Ive been out in UHW every day over the last week, twice some days and yes it is on lock down, but its been like that since before Christmas, its nothing to do with the Coronavirus

Actually News and Star reporting a patient reporting with suspected coronavirus. OP isn't telling lies.

Aquos76

That N&S story is only a developing story since 3pm yesterday, so not what the OP was referring to. Hopefully this suspected case will come ack negative.

What is a bit worrying though is, my dad is currently in a room on his one in one of the Medical wards, he was informed yesterday afternoon just before 4pm that he would need to be moved to another ward as there was a patient on the way in that is possibly very sick and needs his room. If this happens to be the same patient that is now suspected of this virus, then surely they shouldn’t be putting them on a normal ward in amongst other very sick people.

CardBordWindow

Aquos76 wrote: »

That N&S story is only a developing story since 3pm yesterday, so not what the OP was referring to. Hopefully this suspected case will come ack negative.

What is a bit worrying though is, my dad is currently in a room on his one in one of the Medical wards, he was informed yesterday afternoon just before 4pm that he would need to be moved to another ward as there was a patient on the way in that is possibly very sick and needs his room. If this happens to be the same patient that is now suspected of this virus, then surely they shouldn’t be putting them on a normal ward in amongst other very sick people.

Some of the individual rooms in the Medical wards (On the ground floor) are isolation rooms, AFAIK. So that is probably where they would put them.

Aquos76

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Some of the individual rooms in the Medical wards (On the ground floor) are isolation rooms, AFAIK. So that is probably where they would put them.

Well it wasn’t a ground floor room that my dad was in, maybe they may have had to move someone from one of those to the room where my dad was, to make way for this patient, that’s possible.

friendlyfun

I wasn't allowed visit my mother today. Had to leave her stuff at reception to be collected.

albert kidd

Told yee lads.. They were trying to keep it under wraps until the media got hold of it.. Scary times

Aquos76

albert kidd wrote: »

Told yee lads.. They were trying to keep it under wraps until the media got hold of it.. Scary times

What you were on about is nothing to do with the case from yesterday.

Aquos76

friendlyfun wrote: »

I wasn't allowed visit my mother today. Had to leave her stuff at reception to be collected.

Some of those security people are absolute pricks, no compassion at all. its gotten to the stage that I just walk past them now when they open the door to let others in or out, no one is going to tell me that I can't see my dad who is a very sick man.

And before anyone jumps to any conclusions, its mainly the Irish ones that are acting the pricks.

Doff

Aquos76 wrote: »

And before anyone jumps to any conclusions, its mainly the Irish ones that are acting the pricks.

Literally no one was jumping to conclusions.

Aquos76

Doff wrote: »

Literally no one was jumping to conclusions.

Well, Im just putting it out there before anyone does is all

aziz

Aquos76 wrote: »

Some of those security people are absolute pricks, no compassion at all. its gotten to the stage that I just walk past them now when they open the door to let others in or out, no one is going to tell me that I can't see my dad who is a very sick man.

And before anyone jumps to any conclusions, its mainly the Irish ones that are acting the pricks.

My wife had to write a letter of complaint to the hospital about the security men,
Her father is dying and even though her and her family's names are on a list to be allowed in on a couple of occasions they had nothing but trouble to get in.
It's the last thing anyone with that on their mind needs

friendlyfun

I was there today. Big row broke out with security and one visitor. The whole set up is pure chaos

Aquos76

That’s a daily occurrence at this stage

StringerBell

So we have a potential case is it?

debok

albert kidd wrote: »

Told yee lads.. They were trying to keep it under wraps until the media got hold of it.. Scary times

He only arrived in yesterday at three o clock. Just because you make up a story and then something similar happens 4 days later doesn't make you right

With regards to the security it's hard having to tell visitors to stay out but there damned if they do and damned if the don't. The same people will complain if there were no procedures in place to stop infections. The flu spreads thru there rapid when the place is full of visitors . If person your visiting is not on death's door then don't visit simple as

Harry Palmr

No one has the virus at WHU.

Max Powers

Harry Palmr wrote: »

No one has the virus at WHU.

Eavesdropping on a couple of conversations yesterday, one lad said to another lady, 'suspected case of corona virus in Waterford Hospital'....two minutes later heard same lady confirm to another woman 'sure the corona virus is in Waterford, its on the news'.

Couldn't miss it, both conversations were right beside me.

barraseaclaid

The hospital is on lockdown due as it is flu season. The sad fact of the matter is that in general public do not adhere to hand hygiene protocols or visiting restrictions. They are there to protect patients some of whom are severely immunocompromised.
In relation to COVID-19 there is no big cover up. If there was a confirmed case it would be broadcast to the media through the public health channels

debok

Patient tested negative for coronavirus

wsopchamp

barraseaclaid wrote: »

The hospital is on lockdown due as it is flu season. The sad fact of the matter is that in general public do not adhere to hand hygiene protocols or visiting restrictions. They are there to protect patients some of whom are severely immunocompromised.
In relation to COVID-19 there is no big cover up. If there was a confirmed case it would be broadcast to the media through the public health channels

Have to agree 100% with you on this . Unfortunately decisions like visitor restrictions have to be put in place when flu, noro virus etc are in community to stop spread of same in hospital , and it's works. Security have a thankless job as if your name is not on list they can't let you pass but fairly sure they don't adhear to this all the time .

robtri

Max Powers wrote: »

Eavesdropping on a couple of conversations yesterday, one lad said to another lady, 'suspected case of corona virus in Waterford Hospital'....two minutes later heard same lady confirm to another woman 'sure the corona virus is in Waterford, its on the news'.

Couldn't miss it, both conversations were right beside me.

well just shows they don't know much.. nothing on the news
hearsay is never reliable

albert kidd

Could be as much as 81 students from Waterford just back from skiing from an infected area in Italy in the last 24 hours��.. This could be it folks.��

Captain Red Beard

We should have Coronavirus parties where everyone gets infected and only the strong survive.
Grrrr.

jopax

Does anyone know what school in Waterford they are talking about as it doesn't mention it in the media?

albert kidd

jopax wrote: »

Does anyone know what school in Waterford they are talking about as it doesn't mention it in the media?

Saying its three schools now!!

vriesmays

jopax wrote: »

Does anyone know what school in Waterford they are talking about as it doesn't mention it in the media?

https://www.delasallewaterford.com/ski-trip-2017/

albert kidd

Surely have to shut down the schools now?

Jizique

albert kidd wrote: »

Surely have to shut down the schools now?

No skiing in any of the affected towns; complete overreaction

mooseknunkle

albert kidd wrote: »

Surely have to shut down the schools now?

https://twitter.com/damienwlr/status/1232361780451647491

edit_me

Looks like most of the population will die from panic attack, than corona virus....

albert kidd

I think it's a serious matter.. People are saying don't panic bla bla.. People with poor immune systems are in the firing line so to speak..the clowns who run this country can't be trusted to deal with this imo..

Quigs Snr

This is a tough one to call. SARS and MERS didn't really spread that far... 25 or so countries.. with only the top 5 (all in Asia) having significant numbers of infected... (there was one case in Ireland).

But the world is a smaller place now than it was in 2002. So I don't know if its because of greater international travel, or something in the virus itself that in the first 3 months it has already infected more than 10 times more people than SARS did... and killed 4 times more. The numbers are still small potatoes compared to the population centres they are emanating from.. but still.

The rate of infection in secondary places where it has gained a foothold, like Italy will tell us a lot about how worried we should be.

friendlyfun

one of the schools was st pauls also.

alta stare

friendlyfun wrote: »

one of the schools was st pauls also.

Yep. My niece is one of those on that trip.

robtri

albert kidd wrote: »

I think it's a serious matter.. People are saying don't panic bla bla.. People with poor immune systems are in the firing line so to speak..the clowns who run this country can't be trusted to deal with this imo..

its not to panic about
currently 200 to 500 people die every year here from the normal flu but we don't see panic about that.
Cov19 has a mortality rate of 2.3%

these kids where miles away from the outbreak so why would we panic

JohnC.

robtri wrote: »

its not to panic about
currently 200 to 500 people die every year here from the normal flu but we don't see panic about that.
Cov19 has a mortality rate of 2.3%

Flu has a mortality rate of about 0.1%. Flu gets a vaccine, which this hasn't got yet. There is a level of immunity to flu from previous episodes which isn't the case with this. The level of people needing hospitalisation for Covid-19 is about 10x that of flu. Flu has been around for ages and this is getting started. Increasing evidence that it spreads more easily than flu. There are lots of reasons that people need to stop comparing it to the flu. It's not me saying that, it's medical professionals. They need to get a handle on this before it gets really serious. They're not putting towns or cities in virtual quarantine for a laugh.

deisedevil

https://www.thejournal.ie/covid-19-denmark-5023741-Feb2020/

NIMAN

2 North Donegal schools just back from skiiing in Northern Italy too.

deisedevil

Won't be long now anyway.

tbayers

A person in Spain has got it after returning from Valencia game mid week. Good luck to them trying to contain those cases. Bound to get it here. Confidence is extremely low that we have any measures in place. Returned from states via Dublin airport yesterday and not a hint of any precautionary measures, not even a sign. And passport control had no gloves or masks!

Cabaal

tbayers wrote: »

A person in Spain has got it after returning from Valencia game mid week. Good luck to them trying to contain those cases. Bound to get it here. Confidence is extremely low that we have any measures in place. Returned from states via Dublin airport yesterday and not a hint of any precautionary measures, not even a sign. And passport control had no gloves or masks!

Honest question, did you?

After all you were mixing with people on the plane and in the airport as well, a person from a effected area could very easily have been on your flight as part of a connecting flight.

tbayers

Cabaal wrote: »

Honest question, did you?

After all you were mixing with people on the plane and in the airport as well, a person from a effected area could very easily have been on your flight as part of a connecting flight.

Very true. But I came from the States and no cases in state I was in or any in ones around it. I do take your point. But how can flights from Northern Italy be left through unscreened?

mooseknunkle

First case in Ireland now confirmed from someone in Belfast who had returned from Italy via Dublin,its in Ireland now anyway.