Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

Tootsie_1

is_that_so wrote: »

Catastrophic? Hmm!

Involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.

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Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Independent reporting the CUH case is community transmission, patient did not visit Italy.

Friend of mine working in Radiology said that the man was in for an xray and they just caught it. Imagine how many they'd "just catch" if they would test probable cases and not just direct contact.

Completely out of control, bring the school holidays forward. It's probably already too late but at least it will go some way towards preventing further spread. This is outrageous.

Cilldara_2000

is_that_so wrote: »

Catastrophic? Hmm!

I'm not one of the doomsdayers but a lot of other viral infections can be catastrophic in hospitals.

Spanish Eyes

Community based infection to me is the result of some kind of contact with Italy/Chinese etc. carriers.

Patient may not have travelled, known anyone who travelled from Italy/China, but it's out there just the same.

Trying to stay optimistic. Still no hand gel anywhere in the country AFAIS, but the virus is here, and will not go away for a while.

I reckon HSE did the usual thing of We Irish Are Special, we will not suffer like other countries. Well I do hope that's true, and it may be contained, best case scenario that.

Let's see what the next two weeks brings when self isolation for a few schools and others is over.

is_that_so

skimpydoo wrote: »

As person with a compromised immune system I am assuming that it is everywhere. Time to stay in and watch some box sets.

Was out and about today, in a church and a restaurant. No hand shaking and hand gel at entrance to church. Childer being packed off to wash their hands at the restaurant, hand gel on the table but otherwise a pretty normal day.

jarvis

Fück. The Irish times just said in this new case the man is critical. Holy Moly. Poor guy. I really hope he pulls through.

pc7

Retro I just spat my tea everywhere, brilliant!

tillyfilly

Can't wait for the Irish football playoffs

babybuilder

Yurt! wrote: »

Anything to do with Chinese national prestige and when it gets tainted needs to be taken with a huge dollop of salt. The pandemic and their initial inaction has stung the CCP big-time and they are liable to say anything to get their population to think they're not screw-ups.

Shady foreigners trying to undermine China's brilliance is a popular canard that gets swallowed up by hundreds of millions of hyper-nationalist Chinese online.

It's not worth entertaining. I'd keep an open mind if it came from literally any other source

Please leave your China bashing of this thread. Focus on what steps could be introduced here to reduce the rate of contagion.

SeaBreezes

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

People mighty finally start to understand the consequences of an outbreak here which goes way beyond direct health effect of the virus.

I hate having to learn the hard way.
Its not like we couldn't SEE what was happening in other countries.. and that they didnt go to superhuman efforts to try and spare us the same thing..

Tootsie_1

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

I'm not one of the doomsdayers but a lot of other viral infections can be catastrophic in hospitals.

True but the last place you want it circulating among people is a hospital or hospice. God love any Cancer patient or Cystic fibrosis patients if they contract it.

Gynoid

Yurt! wrote: »

Anything to do with Chinese national prestige and when it gets tainted needs to be taken with a huge dollop of salt. The pandemic and their initial inaction has stung the CCP big-time and they are liable to say anything to get their population to think they're not screw-ups.

Shady foreigners trying to undermine China's brilliance is a popular canard that gets swallowed up by hundreds of millions of hyper-nationalist Chinese online.

It's not worth entertaining. I'd keep an open mind if it came from literally any other source

I totally get all this. One of my children lived there for a long while. But the paper is also on researchgate.net. I know, by a Chinese scientist. But it will be Chinese scientists who contribute a lot to science on this matter as they have been dealing with such a lot of it. Anyways, no arguing intended, you have your approach which is understandable, I just like to wonder about stuff.

Kermit.de.frog

BREAKING: Italy to ban all flights from Cork

"A grave threat to our nation" said one Italian official

Steven81

Heard from a reliable source a test costs 500 euro so they don’t want to go and check everyone.

stephenjmcd

tillyfilly wrote: »

Can't wait for the Irish football playoffs

No coronavirus in Slovakia so they say, we're all good

DrumSteve

igCorcaigh wrote: »

This is a good thing though? Many mild cases with no hospital treatment needed?

Just hoping that 20pc figure is an overestimate.

Trending at just over 15% at the moment.

Which isn't bad.

Then you remember what 15% of 1 million is.

I'm going for a lie down.

Yurt2

babybuilder wrote: »

Please leave your China bashing of this thread. Focus on what steps could be introduced here to reduce the rate of contagion.

Thanks but I'm not a health professional, I'll leave that to them.

My comments were a fair response from a serious charge coming from the origin country of the virus with a history of deflection and propaganda.

is_that_so

Tootsie_1 wrote: »

Involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.

Yeah, based on what actual evidence? Your own state of great unease does not qualify!

pc7

SeaBreezes wrote: »

I hate having to learn the hard way.
Its not like we couldn't SEE what was happening in other countries.. and that they didnt go to superhuman efforts to try and spare us the same thing..

It’s mind boggling, threads back I was saying surely they should cancel surgery’s now, get wards cleared as much as possible, train all staff from porters to doctors in ppe, plans in place for beds, removals etc. We KNEW this was coming, I’m some randomer on Boards how could they not see this coming?

Runaways

The endless baseless panicmongering in here is so draining.

If anyone wonders why you’re not being told every little detail about every single element of planning and handling this, just pick a random page and read through.

Jaysis

owlbethere

SeaBreezes wrote: »

I hate having to learn the hard way.
Its not like we couldn't SEE what was happening in other countries.. and that they didnt go to superhuman efforts to try and spare us the same thing..

The EU needs to stand together and get this under control and do whatever it takes like a lockdown. They have been peddling solidarity our way for years.

Kermit.de.frog

The new patient is in intensive care according to the IT

pc7

How you feeling Runaways?

harr

So what number do you think tonight ? Just the cork one or will they have more to confirm.
Maybe they think we can only handle the one tonight ?

spookwoman

Coronavirus: Seventh patient tests positive in the Republic
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-seventh-patient-tests-positive-in-the-republic-1.4194376

wakka12

Was there another case? Or is this one of the 4 people from yesterday?

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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-seventh-patient-tests-positive-in-the-republic-1.4194376
Can I just say fair fcuking play to Irish journalism on this. The party line needs to go in the bin and we need to rely on testimony from people working in clinical settings providing their experiences to the press because the mouthpiece is not adequate. At least now this "South of Ireland" sh!te can end, trust the rebels in Cork to break with tradition.

He was in hospital a week ago and back in this week again. It's highly, highly likely that he contracted it in hospital.

Our front line staff are being treated with absolute contempt by the HSE. This "control the narrative" approach is putting them at incredible risk so early on in this situation, and we are really, really going to need them in the coming months.

Our children are at risk of losing grandparents and parents and spreading the virus further. With the hospital spewing out possible sources of transmission will week, the schools need to close ASAP.

Drumpot

Pudsy33 wrote: »

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. We KNEW it was circulating by community transfer, it simply had to have been passed on by the Italian cases. It might kick the country into some sort of action.

I agree, imagine they didn’t discover this by accident and were planning as if we were still not that bad... Hopefully this really speeds up government response and all authorities start to go full pelt at stopping this, even if it means cancelling major events and closing schools.....

I think I heard earlier they tested 70 people yesterday. Does this not mean that 5 out of that 70 had the virus? (If this person was tested yesterday with the other 4?)

Gods Gift

If I load up on vitamin C would it help against it?
My lungs wouldn’t be the best, at the best of times.

Spanish Eyes

Where the feck are all these places getting their hand gel from!

I'm tempted to go to the concourse in a hospital with a big bottle and decant some of their supplies at this stage, while pretending to use it on my hands.

That is a joke my friends I wouldn't do it (YET), but I reckon many are filling up their bottles in hospitals like the holy water in Knock as we speak.

It's a long time to be without hand gel, surely some enterprising company has a handle on this and if they can fulfil orders, will make a fortune.

But if stocks are replenished I think the amount purchased should be limited to three or four at a time. Or less. Nothing to stop repeat visits for the same I suppose, but hate the way it's being gouged on Ebay and the likes right now.