Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Ficheall

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40280642.html
****e incoming flight tracing SHOCKER.

Vaccinated30

Vaccinated30 wrote: »

I was tested at 1.30 yesterday, still waiting

Negative at 3.30

is_that_so

Ficheall wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40280642.html
****e incoming flight tracing SHOCKER.

Notwithstanding, the SHOCK Catherine wants the country shut down and every country in the UN on the list for MHQ! No major alarm to that if people went home and isolated. Isn't she a bit late with all of this anyway? In a month or so we could well be looking at 70% vaccinated, with half that fully vaccinated.

Ficheall

is_that_so wrote: »

Notwithstanding, the SHOCK Catherine wants the country shut down and every country in the UN on the list for MHQ! No major alarm to that if people went home and isolated. Isn't she a bit late with all of this anyway? In a month or so we could well be looking at 70% vaccinated, with half that fully vaccinated.

Oh, absolutely too late, and nothing surprising about it. And I'm sure some will have gone home and isolated, and some won't.

70% seems optimistic to me, but I'll keep my fingers crossed that you turn out to be right!

Turtwig

is_that_so wrote: »

Notwithstanding, the SHOCK Catherine wants the country shut down and every country in the UN on the list for MHQ! No major alarm to that if people went home and isolated. Isn't she a bit late with all of this anyway? In a month or so we could well be looking at 70% vaccinated, with half that fully vaccinated.

We need a safeguard that ideally doesn't require MHQ to be able swiftly identify and contain any imported cases of concern or consequence. Without that we will be at the whims of the rest of world's control of the pandemic and mother nature. Surveillance is the dam to prevent a potential flood. I'd rather have the dam built than rely on the prayer the flood never happens. If we had to go back into lockdown because of shoddy surveillance that would be a gross failure. This is also an opportunity to make Ireland more resilient to future pandemics gaining a foothold here. Covid has shown just how vulnerable we are.

is_that_so

Turtwig wrote: »

We need a safeguard that ideally doesn't require MHQ to be able swiftly identify and contain any imported cases of concern or consequence. Without that we will be at the whims of the rest of world's control of the pandemic and mother nature. Surveillance is the dam to prevent a potential flood. I'd rather have the dam built than rely on the prayer the flood never happens. If we had to go back into lockdown because of shoddy surveillance that would be a gross failure. This is also an opportunity to make Ireland more resilient to future pandemics gaining a foothold here. Covid has shown just how vulnerable we are.

I think we have the makings of that in our formal testing system and the walk-ins. Rapid testing also needs to be part of that in some way. The rest we know is all about restrictions. The data of those well ahead in vaccinations suggests that it is likely to be a minor issue anyway.

Chris_5339762

383 cases today

Edit: I was first for once!!!

TheDoctor

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

383 cases today

Edit: I was first for once!!!

And you get a like

paulie21

Sadly 2 deaths announced also

Vicxas

paulie21 wrote: »

Sadly 2 deaths announced also

Did they say from when?

paulie21

Vicxas wrote: »

Did they say from when?

Haven't seen that reported anywhere yet

is_that_so

Padraig McLochlainn response to COVID hotline in Donegal.

A Sinn Féin TD for Co Donegal has said the establishment of a dedicated hotline to report Covid breaches to Gardaí in the county is "a bit of an exaggeration" in terms of the challenge of managing the virus in the county.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2021/0504/1213676-donegal-covid-cases/

blowitupref

7-day average in cases 457 (it was 458 last Tuesday)

7-day average reported deaths is 4 (it was 6 last Tuesday)

WoollyRedHat

Of the cases notified today:

194 are men and 189 are women
79% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 28 years old
129 in Dublin, 40 in Kildare, 32 in Meath, 25 in Donegal, 25 in Louth and the remaining 132 cases are spread across 21 other counties.
As of 8am today, 144 patients with Covid-19 are hospitalised, including 41 in ICU.

10 additional hospitalisations have been made in the past 24 hours.

manofwisdom

RTÉ went the extra mile with their fake news this evening.



Just 4,000 added onto to possible/probable death number.

Jim_Hodge

manofwisdom wrote: »

RTÉ went the extra mile with their fake news this evening.



Just 4,000 added onto to possible/probable death number.

Oh the indignation ! Have you never entered a typo?

saabsaab

The median age of those getting Covid is now 28. Perhaps we should vaccinate the 19-30 age group next for everyone's sake.

bloopy

saabsaab wrote: »

The median age of those getting Covid is now 28. Perhaps we should vaccinate the 19-30 age group next for everyone's sake.

Nope.
Continue vaccinating the groups who might actually have a serious outcome from the virus.

eagle eye

Three cases in my kids school. A parent of one contacted the principle today to let her know as she was surprised the principle wasn't in contact with the family. The principle didn't know about it despite it being 60 hours since the result. Nothing from the HSE.

podgeandrodge

eagle eye wrote: »

Three cases in my kids school. A parent of one contacted the principle today to let her know as she was surprised the principle wasn't in contact with the family. The principle didn't know about it despite it being 60 hours since the result. Nothing from the HSE.

You are happy with your kids in school now?

podgeandrodge

Deleted User wrote: »

Expiry on active pharmaceuticals tends to be from date of manufacture of the active component. Likely purification processes, fill and finish and batch release occur well after manufacturing date. Its quite probable vaccines are at least 1 month old, if not more, by the time they are released for use. Then add distribution etc and it would not be at all surprising to have only a couple of months remaining by the time they arrive here

Yeah possibly. Something is not right with the timing though. If AZ lasts for 6 months, and "Dr Denis McCauley, chair of the IMO General Practitioner Committee, said GPs had “a week or so” to administer the vaccines to ensure that they were not kept in fridges beyond their expiry date".

A week. That would imply that some stocks were delivered last December. I don't recall, but maybe that happened.

saabsaab

bloopy wrote: »

Nope.
Continue vaccinating the groups who might actually have a serious outcome from the virus.

It may protect the more vulnerable better to stop the superspreaders first?

podgeandrodge

AstraZeneca has so far delivered just 31 million of the 120 million doses it had promised to the EU. (According to papers last week).

With the news that the EU Commission is not renewing contracts for Astra and J&J from next year, will the EU continue to get the remaining stocks of AZ for the rest of this year, even when MRNA vaccines become plentiful?

Ficheall

saabsaab wrote: »

It may protect the more vulnerable better to stop the superspreaders first?

You want to reward them for being more reckless? You'd want to be pretty sure the vaccinations prevent transmissiblity a LOT before giving the spreaders even more perceived invincibility at the expense of the vulnerable...

Happydays2020

podgeandrodge wrote: »

AstraZeneca has so far delivered just 31 million of the 120 million doses it had promised to the EU. (According to papers last week).

With the news that the EU Commission is not renewing contracts for Astra and J&J from next year, will the EU continue to get the remaining stocks of AZ for the rest of this year, even when MRNA vaccines become plentiful?

Presumably they are needed now in terms of getting mass vaccination done sooner and being able to taper off State supports.

manofwisdom

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

Oh the indignation ! Have you never entered a typo?

Typos a bit different this was Live on TV where every detail should be checked fully before published to the public.

bloopy

saabsaab wrote: »

It may protect the more vulnerable better to stop the superspreaders first?

Nope.
If the vaccine preevents serious illness, you give it to those most at risk of serious illness first. Not to those most likely to just brush it off.
Besides, at this stage there are a hell of a lot more under 30's than vulnerable left to vaccinate.
Do you suggest the vulnerable stay at home until the healthy are vaccinated, while still at risk from potentially catching the virus at any moment? That seems a bit cruel.

podgeandrodge

JTMan wrote: »

Washington DC are using free beer and no appointment necessary to get the "not sures" and "could not be bothered" out for a vaccine.

https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/1389636383443197954

Can you imagine Dr. Tony aligning vaccine shots with alcohol as an inducer :pac:

podgeandrodge

Happydays2020 wrote: »

Presumably they are needed now in terms of getting mass vaccination done sooner and being able to taper off State supports.

Not 100% sure, weren't there reports that we could be awash with MRNA vaccines by late Summer? They'll never use all the Astra contracted numbers if that is the case?

TheDoctor

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Can you imagine Dr. Tony aligning vaccine shots with alcohol as an inducer :pac:

The vaccine loves alcohol