Covid 19 Part XXXI-187,554 ROI (2,970 deaths) 100,319 NI (1,730 deaths)(24/01)Read OP

Beasty

A New Year but alas it's not yet improving on last year. Indeed it has rapidly moved in the other direction

Here's hoping they can get that vaccine programme rapidly expanded

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Tpcl20

Looks like supermarket click and collect will still be allowed.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Dear God the hospital numbers.

Away With The Fairies

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Dear God the hospital numbers.

What's the hospital numbers

I suspect that all hospitals will be in surge by the weekend.

theguzman

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

What's the hospital numbers

840 with 102 of those coming in the last 24 hours.

Cluedo Monopoly

Link to great post from the last thread. Very informative.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=115813400&postcount=9292

Weird that it only got 13 likes.

Away With The Fairies

theguzman wrote: »

840 with 102 of those coming in the last 24 hours.

That's not good at all. Will this wave cripple the health service?

manofwisdom

TonyMaloney wrote: »

I rarely get to do this, but I found some good news.
Our google mobility data suggests that from Christmas Day onwards, the Irish people have copped on and realised how serious this is and from then on we increasingly altered our behaviour.

We haven't seen a dislocation from normality like this since March. I can say with some confidence now that any restrictions applied should work well and maybe even kick in a little earlier than restrictions usually would.

Tony posting some good news.

Stheno

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

That's not good at all. Will this wave cripple the health service?

The private hospitals are on board now for capacity

We will have a scary 2 to 3 weeks and it will be absolutely awful for health staff on the frontline

Then hopefully it will start to.drop

Spanish Eyes

Stay calm and stay at home, get shopping delivered.

I do realise that not everyone can stay at home but it will help those who have to.

Time for solidarity is now. No messing.

Eod100

22 ICU beds left is grim. Do private hospitals have many ICU beds?

Presume surge capacity would have to be activated now? Any idea what it would go up to? Guess staff would be taken from others to staff these beds too so will have knock on impacts.

majcos

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Dear God the hospital numbers.

Increase of 103 hospitalised in 24 hour period from 8pm last night to 8pm tonight.

Increases in almost all hospitals 26/29 except Letterkenny which has decreased by 4. Donegal likes to be different.

Biggest jump is in Galway. Increased there from 47 to 67 in 24 hours. CUH 64 to 78 and Mercy 14 to 22.

TonyMaloney

manofwisdom wrote: »

Tony posting some good news.

I should probably delete it

it's way off brand

Stheno

TonyMaloney wrote: »

I should probably delete it

it's way off brand

Its almost unbelievable

majcos

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

What's the hospital numbers

I just posted at end of last thread....

HSE operations report 5/1 as of 8pm

Covid cases hospitalised 873 - increase from 770

ICU confirmed Covid cases 75 - increase from 72
1 death in ICUs last 24 hours
Confirmed Covid cases ventilated - 42 increase from 38
Available ICU beds 22

Arduach

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Link to great post from the last thread. Very informative.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=115813400&postcount=9292

Weird that it only got 13 likes.

It's very good. Sometimes a longer post doesn't receive the thanks it should. People sometimes go 'ahh too long'.

Stheno

Eod100 wrote: »

22 ICU beds left is grim. Do private hospitals have many ICU beds?

Presume surge capacity would have to be activated now? Any idea what it would go up to? Guess staff would be taken from others to staff these beds too so will have knock on impacts.

Think public beds can go up.to 350 ICU beds

If they moved non COVID ICU patients to private hospitals that would free up a fair few beds

IcU in April peaked at 160 iirc

PsychoPete

Arduach wrote: »

It's very good. Sometimes a longer post doesn't receive the thanks it should. People sometimes go 'ahh too long'.

If it's more than 5 lines I just don't have the attention span to read it

ax530

Think ICU beds are not just beds but staff. If the staff are not available to work the 'bed' is not an ICU bed

cjyid

It'll be a rough few weeks but we'll get through it.

GreeBo

Stheno wrote: »

The private hospitals are on board now for capacity

We will have a scary 2 to 3 weeks and it will be absolutely awful for health staff on the frontline

Then hopefully it will start to.drop

It's not just the hospitals or beds though, staff is becoming s real issue, CUH are down 100 at the moment I believe

Stheno

GreeBo wrote: »

It's not just the hospitals or beds though, staff is becoming s real issue, CUH are down 100 at the moment I believe

Thats true alright

Bit.of a worry

prunudo

When do we get proper details on these new pending restrictions.

Stheno

prunudo wrote: »

When do we get proper details on these new pending restrictions.

Tomorrow

theguzman

prunudo wrote: »

When do we get proper details on these new pending restrictions.

As soon as I have the info, I'll update the thread.

Gael23

Is there a way to get a breakdown of specific regions within a county on the Covid data hub?

GreeBo

cjyid wrote: »

It'll be a rough few weeks but we'll get through it.

Most of us will get through it unscathed
Some of us will have long lasting effects
A lot of us will die


People on these threads wrongly only focus on the first and third outcomes

TonyMaloney

Gael23 wrote: »

Is there a way to get a breakdown of specific regions within a county on the Covid data hub?

Scroll down til you hit the map

https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

Cluedo Monopoly

ax530 wrote: »

Think ICU beds are not just beds but staff. If the staff are not available to work the 'bed' is not an ICU bed

Yep ICU beds have a 1:1 nurse ratio and the nurse must be ICU and ventilator trained.

Eod100

Eod100 wrote: »

22 ICU beds left is grim.

I have the dinghy afloat and ready to be untethered. Destination Lithuania where they have triple ICU bed capacity with half the population of ours. Room for a few more, expect to alight in Vilnius next fortnight.

Stheno

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I have the dinghy afloat and ready to be untethered. Destination Lithuania where they have triple ICU bed capacity with half the population of ours. Room for a few more, expect to alight in Vilnius next fortnight.

Can we "wfb"?

theguzman

Stheno wrote: »

Can we "wfb"?

With a starlink connection it should be possible.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058078616

Richard Hillman

We are more ****ed now that the last thread. I wonder how ****ed we'll be by the next one

Dr. Bre

Stay at home !

Plumbthedepths

GreeBo wrote: »

It's not just the hospitals or beds though, staff is becoming s real issue, CUH are down 100 at the moment I believe

If only some of our trained people travelled back home to answer the call....oh wait they did.

majcos

ax530 wrote: »

Think ICU beds are not just beds but staff. If the staff are not available to work the 'bed' is not an ICU bed

When HSE/INMO talk about hospital beds, they are referring to far more than the physical bed. Des Kelly once offered beds during a Winter trolley crisis but it is more complex than that.

An ICU bed needs very specialised staff with very specialised equipment. An ICU ‘bed’ refers to the anesthetist, the ICU nurse with one nurse per patient 24 hours a day seven days a week, and ideally healthcare assistants, physiotherapist, dietician, pharmacist, porters, etc.

One ICU Covid patient could potentially need a number of specialists/consultants including a general physician, infectious disease consultant and/or microbiologist, respiratory physician, nephrologist, cardiologist, stroke specialist, haematologist, ENT surgeon, perhaps even a vascular surgeon, and a rehabilitation consultant. I’m sure I have missed others. Each patient would hopefully not need all of these but in different individuals a mix of the above is necessary.

Add to that a radiographer, radiologist, laboratory staff, clinically engineer,...

mcburns07

Such nostalgia reading some of those names on the banned list.

How I long for the good old days of July 2020.

JP Liz V1

Tpcl20 wrote: »

Looks like supermarket click and collect will still be allowed.

What about food takeaway?

brookers

cjyid wrote: »

It'll be a rough few weeks but we'll get through it.

Hopefully we will all stay safe......colleague has just tested positive, we meet the public every day for long periods of time, answering questions, gov department. staff petrified and that includes even the younger staff who were covid sceptics untill recently.

stephenjmcd

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

What about food takeaway?

Yeah thats all fine, as it was in March last year

TonyMaloney

majcos wrote: »

When HSE/INMO talk about hospital beds, they are referring to far more than the physical bed. Des Kelly once offered beds during a Winter trolley crisis but it is more complex than that.

An ICU bed needs very specialised staff with very specialised equipment. An ICU ‘bed’ refers to the anesthetist, the ICU nurse with one nurse per patient 24 hours a day seven days a week, and ideally healthcare assistants, physiotherapist, dietician, pharmacist, porters, etc.

One ICU Covid patient could potentially need a number of specialists/consultants including a general physician, infectious disease consultant and/or microbiologist, respiratory physician, nephrologist, cardiologist, stroke specialist, haematologist, ENT surgeon, perhaps even a vascular surgeon, and a rehabilitation consultant. I’m sure I have missed others. Each patient would hopefully not need all of these but in different individuals a mix of the above is necessary.

Add to that a radiographer, radiologist, laboratory staff, clinically engineer,...

Yeah, but Des Kelly's beds had memory foam.

Swings and roundabouts

Stheno

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Yeah thats all fine, as it was in March last year

I can see them banning takeaway pints though

PsychoPete

Stheno wrote: »

I can see them banning takeaway pints though

No harm, takeaway pints is an absolutely ridiculous idea

Eod100

prunudo wrote: »

When do we get proper details on these new pending restrictions.

Cabinet meeting at 10.30 am so guess sometime tomorrow afternoon/evening officially but plenty of leaks and speculation in between.

stephenjmcd

Stheno wrote: »

I can see them banning takeaway pints though

Appearently not, all takeaway services are fine.

They were fine back in March and April last year, don't see the difference now. Your not going to have groups on the street drinking

Deeper Blue

mcburns07 wrote: »

Such nostalgia reading some of those names on the banned list.

How I long for the good old days of July 2020.

#JusticeForPaddyGreen

Eod100

Stheno wrote: »

I can see them banning takeaway pints though

Say they'll have to really if pretty much everything else is.

KrustyUCC

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Yep ICU beds have a 1:1 nurse ratio and the nurse must be ICU and ventilator trained.

Yes it is very specialist but needs must sometimes

You can turn 'ordinary' beds into ICU beds if you have the ventilators etc

My brother is an ICU nurse in London

They're getting overwhelmed so they have 'regular' nurses doing stuff like turning patients over so the ICU trained nurse can look after the most serious cases and read the equipment etc

It may come to that here but you can certainly do it on a short term basis

Stateofyou

So seriously, no one is concerned about that SA strain though?
Matt Hancock said he's extremely worried, he has been working with his counterparts in S. Africa and the research they've done on the mutated strain shows that the structure has changed significantly and they don't think the current vaccines will do the job.
UK has closed off travel from SA, quarantined recent travellers, and said they found some of the new strain in the UK already. That's it's even more contagious than the new UK one. This came from their Health secretary.

I honestly can't understand why this news isn't everywhere right now.

penelope2012

Or look up Zara King or Richard Chambers on Twitter they always have the county breakdown as soon as the daily figures are announced

TonyMaloney wrote: »

Scroll down til you hit the map

https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/