CoVid19 Part XIV - 8,089 in ROI (288 deaths) 1,589 in NI (92 deaths) (10/04) Read OP

Beasty

From the HSE briefing document on gov.ie

Gender of patients
Gender Number % of Total
Female 3425 53.2
Male 27923 45.4
Unknown 96 1.5
Total 6444

*All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 7 April.

I know they are under pressure, but if they cannot spot that error (which is based on yesterday's figures) you do wonder.....

cj maxx

I'm I a mean median or mode Joe Soap ?

r93kaey5p2izun

thebaz wrote: »

I have no idea - but ther is discrepancies in nearly all the data including our own- just outlining ther is alternatives to extreme lockdown, that many here are pushing - south Korea have it pretty much under control and they never went into lockdown - just really fear for the secondary casualties (such as in these reports today:-

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/coronavirus-could-push-half-a-billion-people-into-poverty-oxfam-warns

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52236936

How different were the steps taken by South Korea than our "lockdown"? Genuine question. They have done a great job, so interested to hear. (But I would be very cautious about changing to follow their methods unless we can also follow their incredible testing regime)

take everything

lawred2 wrote: »

Median

Ohhh...
So the medium is the average of the median, mean and mode.

Ah I get it now.

DevilsHaircut

Beasty wrote: »

Why could they not simply say what they could do in the first place. They were not even caveating the figures they were throwing out a few weeks ago. All they had to do was say, we can take 1,500 swabs a day and hope to increase that to 5,000 or whatever, and we can deliver 750 test results a day, but hope to increase that to 2,000 (as they still seem to be struggling to get that many). That avoids a backlash in places like this.

Consistently they have been using terminology that leave them wiggle room, but it comes across as almost deception. All they have to do is be honest. If they can't produce the information, say so, and say what they hope to do to address it (if anything)

A possible issue with the tests was that they had placed an order for swabs, reagent kits etc. but the supplier/s pulled out, cut the amount, had to prioritise domestic or other customers.

All governments are heavily dependent on individual private sector suppliers in this regard.

Wolf359f

easypazz wrote: »

I don't think so, we've seen how bad other countries are getting it and I think most people now get it.

Sorry, I just mean, if we keep deaths down and don't overload our health system and get back to a more restricted way of life, people may think it wasn't worth it.
A year or so from now, if there's a vaccine, I can only imagine all the political point scoring that will go on.
But, I just want to be alive this time next year!

Poorside

fritzelly wrote: »

51k figure is wrong doc confirms

Good stuff, did they give the correct figure?

ShineOn7

froog wrote: »

ireland are now 13th in the world for deaths per capita. taking out the micro countries we are 10th.

That's frightening

I knew 3-4 weeks ago that the infrastructure of our health system wouldn't handle this. Nor would the government act fast enough

I've friends in three different countries who are dealing with this 5 times better and looked into living in one of them (I've lived in two of them previously) for as long as I could get a visa there

With closed borders all over the world (and for a long time), that ship has passed

Now every day my anxiety grows to scary levels and my mental health is on its knees

BanditLuke

facehugger99 wrote: »

The death figures are the biggest con-job.

The vast majority of these people have just reached the end of their very long natural lifespans.

I know you post these to get a rise out of people but thing is it's all so predictable. You have to up your game and think outside the box. 2/10, must try harder.

woohoo!!!

woohoo!!! wrote: »

My guess is that the total on the test list is 51k of which around 45k have been processed in the lab (I saw a figure of over 43k for yesterday), so about 6k waiting and some of those are with the German labs.

Martin is a clown
https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1248306093626982400?s=19

thebaz

Easton Tall Gutter wrote: »

How different were the steps taken by South Korea than our "lockdown"? Genuine question. They have done a great job, so interested to hear. (But I would be very cautious about changing to follow their methods unless we can also follow their incredible testing regime)

Ther testing seamed a lot more organised than ours, I believe ours has been poorly managed, we always seam to be behind, too much emphasis on backward tracing when we can not test people who are actually sick - I know we have been hampered by a worldwide shorting of tests and test kits - but in comparison to Germany and Korea we have been poor regarding testing -

Sober Crappy Chemis

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Now every day my anxiety grows to scary levels and my mental health is on its knees

Avoid this thread then my friend.

The majority of posts here are speculative nonsense.

speckle

Beasty wrote: »

From the HSE briefing document on gov.ie

Gender of patients
Gender Number % of Total
Female 3425 53.2
Male 27923 45.4
Unknown 96 1.5
Total 6444

*All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 7 April.

I know they are under pressure, but if they cannot spot that error (which is based on yesterday's figures) you do wonder.....

did they swop the gender numbers? cant remember yesterdays nah my crappy eyesight typo

pjohnson

Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »

Avoid this thread then my friend.

The majority of posts here are speculative nonsense.

Tbf the worst has been banned so thread be better from now.

Jinglejangle69

ShineOn7 wrote: »

That's frightening

I knew 3-4 weeks ago that the infrastructure of our health system wouldn't handle this. Nor would the government act fast enough

I've friends in three different countries who are dealing with this 5 times better and looked into living in one of them (I've lived in two of them previously) for as long as I could get a visa there

With closed borders all over the world (and for a long time), that ship has passed

Now every day my anxiety grows to scary levels and my mental health is on its knees

Stay at home and you will be fine.

Gynoid

wakka12 wrote: »

Ireland has overtaken both Iran and the US in number of deaths per capita, it is one of the highest in the world

Jesus. Must say I read that and gave a rather big involuntary sigh.

ShineOn7

spookwoman wrote: »

mortality went from 3.87% to 4%

Worldwide or specifically Ireland?

macmahon

KindOfIrish wrote: »

1 million or so people die every day for the past 100 years. Just think about it

On average 90 people a day in Ireland. RIP to all who died in Ireland today.

Jinglejangle69

Gynoid wrote: »

Jesus. Must say I read that and gave a rather big involuntary sigh.

Seriously.

The way they count their deaths and how we do is so much different.

Since when did Iran become some state of the art first world honest country?

People really need to calm down.

caveat emptor

70 doctors and nurses infected in cavan.
I guess they were all living together and none of them contracted in work.
Nothing to do with PPE.

If this is true why don't they show the percentage of them who actually lived with a colleague. I bet it's nothing near one hundred percent.

Saying Where someone acquired the infection is impossible. HSE covering their arse by saying transmission wasn't nosocomial for fear of future law suits no doubt.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/consultants-sent-to-cavan-hospital-after-70-medics-infected-with-coronavirus-1.4225029

Professor Moriarty

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Worldwide or specifically Ireland?

The clue is in the username.

macmahon

ACitizenErased wrote: »

They just said testing centres are empty because there’s no backlog.

Im still scratching my head at that one

Beasty

speckle wrote: »

did they swop the gender numbers? cant remember yesterdays

they added an extra digit to the males figure

the.red.baron

Wibbs wrote: »

Interesting findings about the unusually high viral loads in the throats of covid infected people, including asymptomatic ones. Link here to the Irish Times.
and
Prof Luke O’Neill of Trinity College Dublin.

“It means it is very transmissible just by talking. You don’t need to cough,” he said. Also, people without symptoms, “are very infectious,” he added.

Which kinda answers the notions earlier about the small risk of just talking near someone with this is. All I can say is I'm glad I've been wearing masks for the last fortnight and glad to see others doing so when I have. I've also been wiping down my shopping, which I thought "ah hang on, you're losing it here Ted". Now I might well catch this vile dose and I'l,l be happy to take the "na na I told you so" , but it won't be from want of trying not to, or being concerned about passing it to someone else.

You won't laughing when you get a dose of this even when wearing the mask I tell ya

derossi

Pitch n Putt wrote: »

This is turning into a bit of a mess now.
Peak always seems to be two weeks away.

It’s obvious now that the government and advisory committee made a bad call with the current lockdown.

There’s too many people working and on the move.

This needed the hard lockdown two weeks ago. Medical ,carers and food distribution and supermarkets only.
Everything else should have been stopped two weeks ago.

We’re going to be messing around with a half arsed lockdown for 6 months at the way things are going now.

What they are trying to do by keeping non essential so called essential businesses open is like trying to shove water up a hill in regards suppressing the virus.

I reckon another 3-4 weeks and people will just have enough of this soft route with no end in sight

It's easy to say just lockdown the country but to realise how many people need to keep the country running is a lot more than you think.

bekker

Beasty wrote: »

Why could they not simply say what they could do in the first place. They were not even caveating the figures they were throwing out a few weeks ago. All they had to do was say, we can take 1,500 swabs a day and hope to increase that to 5,000 or whatever, and we can deliver 750 test results a day, but hope to increase that to 2,000 (as they still seem to be struggling to get that many). That avoids a backlash in places like this.

Consistently they have been using terminology that leave them wiggle room, but it comes across as almost deception. All they have to do is be honest. If they can't produce the information, say so, and say what they hope to do to address it (if anything)

Been watching HSE, DoH and CMO appearing before various committee and their public statements in other venues over the years.

Obfuscation and terminology redefinition is their normal modus operandi.

Why people believe that these entities underwent corporate culture transplants with the onset of COVID-19 is totally baffling.

Dr Tony Holohan have been in post for over 12 years, which is too long for any chief advisor to a government.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

wakka12 wrote: »

Ireland has overtaken both Iran and the US in number of deaths per capita, it is one of the highest in the world

But according to some around here, Leo and the gang are doing super job of handling this...

My fcukin hole they are! :mad:

woohoo!!!

They'll have to shortly change their testing criteria with the backlog almost cleared. Hopefully this will coincide with lab capacity being increased (and sustained).

Professor Moriarty

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »

But according to some around here, Leo and the gang are doing super job of handling this...

My fcukin hole they are! :mad:

Who might have done a better job?

Beasty

DevilsHaircut wrote: »

A possible issue with the tests was that they had placed an order for swabs, reagent kits etc. but the supplier/s pulled out, cut the amount, had to prioritise domestic or other customers.

All governments are heavily dependent on individual private sector suppliers in this regard.

Don't deny any of that, but they could have caveated it accordingly. They knew every country in the world was after this stuff. All they had to say is "we are awaiting the reagent, and that is out of our control" rather than trying to convince everyone they were "in control"