Corona virus in waterford

spookwoman

Latest HSE Operations report

127 +4
7 in ICU +1

jmcc

spookwoman wrote: »

I don't want the system privatized, never said I did, I just think when reporting something the data needs to be correct and not full of errors, and even more so when these are Government sites putting the data out.
You go onto the Gov.ie site for info and typo's in a lot of the previous reports. You can expect the odd mistake but this is pretty much day in and day out errors, often the same places and some just basic arithmetic.
Is Ah sure it's nothing the acceptable response if when ordering vaccines for a certain vulnerable group in Waterford is short by a few 1,000 because someone didn't bother to double check their numbers?

One of the problems with the data collection might be that people are writing the reports and the reports are entered on to a computer. Then there are those wonderful commas in large numbers that people include to make a report pretty. That causes problems when a system is expecting a comma separated file. This is the kind of work that Data Science heads who are well-versed in Extraction/Transformation/Load procedures and can write error checking programs on the fly deal with every day. It is likely that some poor unfortunate office staff drew the short straw and have to deal with a pile of incoming reports and have to sort it out manually. The repeated numerical errors is a good indicator of this kind of thing. At least they didn't get the PPARS people to run it or everyone would be dead by now.

Regards...jmcc

spookwoman

jmcc wrote: »

One of the problems with the data collection might be that people are writing the reports and the reports are entered on to a computer. Then there are those wonderful commas in large numbers that people include to make a report pretty. That causes problems when a system is expecting a comma separated file. This is the kind of work that Data Science heads who are well-versed in Extraction/Transformation/Load procedures and can write error checking programs on the fly deal with every day. It is likely that some poor unfortunate office staff drew the short straw and have to deal with a pile of incoming reports and have to sort it out manually. The repeated numerical errors is a good indicator of this kind of thing. At least they didn't get the PPARS people to run it or everyone would be dead by now.

Regards...jmcc

Also a bad indicator that no one has bothered to say anything, has not listened or word is not being checked.


There would be bloody war if that was going on with wages.

Harry Palmr

Tramore GP on the briefing tonight.

OhToBeByTheSea

spookwoman wrote: »

The problem is there is no accountability, people hired and promoted well beyond their abilities and as my mother would say some got their jobs because they were friends with the corpse. It's not what you know it's who you know.

This literally describes pretty much most of the managerial positions in UHW. There are managers above sections who have no qualifications at all and are simply in their jobs because they know someone, they're related to someone, it was the only way for them to progress to the next grade or, they placed high on a panel and, maybe, (no requirement to have any qualification to place high on some of these panels). Of course, occasionally, this works out and someone competent ends up in the job but, unfortunately, all of the incompetence does so much lasting damage.

deise08

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Tramore GP on the briefing tonight.

He was very good. However the irony was not lost on picking a case of a heart patient when we don't have a proper heart facility.

It's awful on people young and old having to go in to hospital alone, all because of this awful virus.

spookwoman

OhToBeByTheSea wrote: »

This literally describes pretty much most of the managerial positions in UHW. There are managers above sections who have no qualifications at all and are simply in their jobs because they know someone, they're related to someone, it was the only way for them to progress to the next grade or, they placed high on a panel and, maybe, (no requirement to have any qualification to place high on some of these panels). Of course, occasionally, this works out and someone competent ends up in the job but, unfortunately, all of the incompetence does so much lasting damage.

and the damage runs downhill to those on the front line dealing with the sh*tstorm.

Harry Palmr

deise08 wrote: »

He was very good. However the irony was not lost on picking a case of a heart patient when we don't have a proper heart facility.

It's awful on people young and old having to go in to hospital alone, all because of this awful virus.

David Cullinane tweeted about heart related waiting list at UHW. Doubled in under 3 years.

https://mobile.twitter.com/davidcullinane/status/1353796556042940417

spookwoman

HSE operations report
Hospital
125 -2
ICU 8 +1

0 ICU beds available

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/covid-19-daily-operations-update-20-00-25-january-2021.pdf

https://mobile.twitter.com/MaryFrancesRyan/status/1354112621876826113


Dont need to even comment on this

Aquos76

1st January 2020 - 25th Jan 2020 106 Deaths
1st January 2021 - 25th Jan 2021 116 Deaths

Source rip.ie

Harry Palmr

37 cases, 928 nationally, 90 dead nationally.

The 5 day moving averages for Wexford The "get tested in Waterford" effect?

Wanderer78

unfortunately there might be another out break in one of the factories, apparently due to an employee not informing about their infection, afraid of being sacked apparently

91wx763

Aquos76 wrote: »

1st January 2020 - 25th Jan 2020 106 Deaths
1st January 2021 - 25th Jan 2021 116 Deaths

Source rip.ie

Wasn't it mentioned that some families are not having the deaths announced ? I'm sure some won't anyway even in normal circumstances.

Aquos76

91wx763 wrote: »

Wasn't it mentioned that some families are not having the deaths announced ? I'm sure some won't anyway even in normal circumstances.

Yes, that is correct, there are always instances where not every death is published on rip.ie I only put that up as a comparison is all. I am not claiming that its 100% accurate.

As we are hearing about more and more deaths of late, I just wanted to see how did it compared to previous years is all. There were 58 deaths recorded between the same dates in 2019, so based on that figure, sadly there was a massive increase both last year and this year.

Captain Red Beard

Wanderer78 wrote: »

unfortunately there might be another out break in one of the factories, apparently due to an employee not informing about their infection, afraid of being sacked apparently

Could you be any more vague?

91wx763

My mother is a care home resident in the city and I've just been told that where she is has 20 resident and 10 staff infections. She's tested negative several times but she's confined to her room and the "window" visits are banned, they'd actually set up a microphone system like you'd see in a bank only recently.

spookwoman

91wx763 wrote: »

My mother is a care home resident in the city and I've just been told that where she is has 20 resident and 10 staff infections. She's tested negative several times but she's confined to her room and the "window" visits are banned, they'd actually set up a microphone system like you'd see in a bank only recently.

Fingers crossed for your mum. Nursing homes were doing well for while until christmas

91wx763

spookwoman wrote: »

Fingers crossed for your mum. Nursing homes were doing well for while until christmas

Thank you. She was getting by ok with the window visits but now is withdrawing away into nothing because she's not seeing anybody she knows and she's getting confused like when they get water infections as a result, waste of time talking to her on the phone tonight.

Harry Palmr

Very tough. Do you know when your mother is due the vaccine not to mention the staff there?

91wx763

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Very tough. Do you know when your mother is due the vaccine not to mention the staff there?

They were there last monday of last week but she wasn't well on the day so she didn't have it

RacoonQueen

91wx763 wrote: »

My mother is a care home resident in the city and I've just been told that where she is has 20 resident and 10 staff infections. She's tested negative several times but she's confined to her room and the "window" visits are banned, they'd actually set up a microphone system like you'd see in a bank only recently.

I hope she stays well, worrying time for you no doubt.
A colleague of mine, his mam tested positive in the first wave and was asymptomatic thankfully.

frank8211

Wanderer78 wrote: »

unfortunately there might be another out break in one of the factories, apparently due to an employee not informing about their infection, afraid of being sacked apparently

Not another meat one? There are 2 of those places mentioned in the last few days in Cork and Wexford with 100 cases admitted and rumours of one in Monaghan being closed last week

OhToBeByTheSea

Aquos76 wrote: »

Yes, that is correct, there are always instances where not every death is published on rip.ie I only put that up as a comparison is all. I am not claiming that its 100% accurate.

As we are hearing about more and more deaths of late, I just wanted to see how did it compared to previous years is all. There were 58 deaths recorded between the same dates in 2019, so based on that figure, sadly there was a massive increase both last year and this year.

If there's such an increase on 2019, you'd have to wonder, were we experiencing deaths from covid much earlier than our first official confirmed case in March 2020. Because, that's a massive difference between 2019 and 2020.

Wanderer78

Captain Red Beard wrote:

Could you be any more vague?

Absolutely, hopefully it's under control now, last thing we need

spookwoman

Gardaí break up gathering of ‘up to 200 people’ after Wexford funeral as mourners urged to offer condolences online
https://www.independent.ie/news/gardai-break-up-gathering-of-up-to-200-people-after-wexford-funeral-as-mourners-urged-to-offer-condolences-online-40018444.html

spaceCreated

spookwoman wrote: »

Gardaí break up gathering of ‘up to 200 people’ after Wexford funeral as mourners urged to offer condolences online
https://www.independent.ie/news/gardai-break-up-gathering-of-up-to-200-people-after-wexford-funeral-as-mourners-urged-to-offer-condolences-online-40018444.html

Crazy stuff, theres a hundred ways to show respect without that nonsense happening

spookwoman

yesterdays hospital data

118 -7
icu 7 -1
0 icu beds available

Briefing was 37 was only 14 confirmed

todays briefing 49

91wx763

spookwoman wrote: »

Gardaí break up gathering of ‘up to 200 people’ after Wexford funeral as mourners urged to offer condolences online
https://www.independent.ie/news/gardai-break-up-gathering-of-up-to-200-people-after-wexford-funeral-as-mourners-urged-to-offer-condolences-online-40018444.html

There's people on twitter citing a certain community and spouting the usual associated "shur nothin' will be done as a result" rubbish.... Was anything "done" about Ramsgrange or the Ritz I ask.

spookwoman

91wx763 wrote: »

There's people on twitter citing a certain community and spouting the usual associated "shur nothin' will be done as a result" rubbish.... Was anything "done" about Ramsgrange or the Ritz I ask.

A wink and a nod goes a long way.