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

amadangomor wrote:

Reported

He was right though

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

This is really wrong-headed. Ireland is so small that you should simply assume you will be in contact with people with COVID19 as it is now circulating in the community. The idea that you’d be safe in Louth or Donegal if it was in CUH is incorrect.

Containment is done, you need to assume it is circulating and that 12 months now roughly 2/3rd of the population will have had it with a commensurate death rate. That works out to roughly 40,000.

If we are lucky and really socially isolate it’ll be much lower but I can’t see it being less than 2,000 over the course of the year.

So there is no point obsessing over whether it is in Cork or Galway or Louth. It is in Ireland, it is in the community and you need to behave as though people you interact with on a daily basis have it no matter where you live.

First and last paragraph not 2 bad a little irrational but the middle 2 bloody hell. 2,000 to 40,00 dead. You need to step away from the computer and take a deep breath. Hope someone remembers this post in a year and brings it up

TheQuietBeatle wrote: »

I'm a manager and we're not doctors, all he'll do is refer you to HR or recently created self isolation policy. Get yourself checked by a doctor is my advice.

On a side note, managers are in a very bad position with this as some companies won't pay for the time the team member misses which make them show up to work (because they need the money). It's going to lead to further spread.

This is the reason seasonal flu,cold & chest infections are so dangerous to the population, people go to work at the beginning and only stay at home when it fully kicks in.

The amount of retail staff i've seen in workplaces visible sick(90% of the time cold & chest infections i'd imagine). I myself had been guilty of it in my time in retail...last place didn't have running water in the store, had to use communal facilities.

Best thing to do now is isolate the vulnerable groups stat. Where to I don't know but they are an at risk group now.

Younger healthier people will ride this out, our parents and relatives and immunosopressed may not even if they are robust now.

Horse before cart maybe.

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Just listened myself, well worth the 20 mins

Is this the David McWilliams podcast? It's coming up as 43 minutes long for me

Skylar Mammoth Spike wrote: »

Just back from the 3rd and final stockpile (until mid-summer). The chap at the checkout (of large supermarket) said they were starting to have supply issues.
They had no tissue boxes anywhere in the store, and reduced amounts of dry goods 50% of normal pasta/rice etc.

Another store had (unwisely) a decent enough sale on bogrolls, while parking up outside, a dozen different people emerged with a couple of packets each and went off in different directions.

Maybe there's a bad curry going around...

that's because people like you are fcking stockpiling everything!!!!!

total me feiners

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Best thing to do now is isolate the vulnerable groups stat. Where to I don't know but they are an at risk group now.

Younger healthier people will ride this out, our parents and relatives and immunosopressed may not even if they are robust now.

Horse before cart maybe.

I don't know...I see plenty of people in their 30's in worse health than my old lad in his 60's who smokes

gmisk wrote: »

Is this the David McWilliams podcast? It's coming up as 43 minutes long for me

I assume the Doctor is only on for twenty minutes.

his is what's after happening!!

**To put it into context. We are now where Italy was two weeks ago**

An Irish doctor diagnosed with the coronavirus unwittingly worked a shift at University Hospital Limerick after not displaying symptoms of the disease.

It is understood that the man worked at the hospital last Wednesday after returning home from a family holiday in northern Italy, but neither he nor his employers knew he had been infected.

He is a member of a family of four patients from Co Clare - which includes two males and two females - who all tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday night.

It is the believed that the doctor checked with public health authorities after arriving home and was given the green light to work in the emergency department at UHL last Wednesday, February 26.

It is believed that the doctor worked a full-shift on the day, coming into contact with large volumes of patients, their relatives, and staff.The shift began Wednesday afternoon and finished later that night.

There were 36 patients languishing on trolleys in the Limerick emergency department plus a further 29 patients on trolleys on wards on the same day.

UHL was the most overcrowded hospital in the country on February 26th, when the doctor showed up for work with a total of 65 patients on trolleys.

On Wednesday night when the four cases were confirmed there were 55 patients on trolleys in total.

Immediately proper protocols were implemented, and a section of the ED was closed, and patients moved out of the unit to allow for it to be cleaned.

Ambulances were informed not to transport patients to UHL’s 24-hour emergency department while the newly opened accident and emergency unit was being cleaned.

Sources said they were concerned for their health and for their families health.
They also expressed fear that they would be sacked for disclosing information to the media.“He was told he was okay to work by public health authorities.”

Staff have been “sent off to be swabbed as they were working the same day as (the doctor)”.

“It’s a chaotic situation because he came home and spoke to public health, and then he came in to the hospital and did his shift last Wednesday.

"His wife and daughter then became symptomatic two days later.”The four patents confirmed as having Covid-19 have been placed in “isolation bays” which are “completely self-contained.”

Management have informed staff that proper protocols are in place and they have begun efforts to contain the virus and to trace those who may have been in contact with the doctor who was working in the hospital last Wednesday.

“This all kicked off last night because they closed down part of the Emergency Department and told ambulance to go ‘off-call’. Staff were sent home that were working on the same day as he was.

“The situation is evolving. There are two males and two females. The hospital is trying to track down those who may have been in contact with the doctor.

”Staff are “worried” but were told that “if they take the right precautions and measures they should be absolutely fine.

“It’s a week ago that he was in the emergency department. The hospital is now conducting traceability and containment protocols.”"Staff are looking for answers and reassurance and clarity.”Staff treating the four patients with the virus are “gowned up, wearing gloves, masks and eye goggles”.

Another source said: “As I understand it at the moment, they are conducting traceability and protocols in relation to who may or who may not have come into contact with patients.”

It dates back to last Wednesday when an individual presented in the ED. There are real concerns now about this spreading fast.

The source said management at the hospital have been “interacting with staff and setting out protocols.

“There are concerns in relation to the containment of the virus. Any frontline staff would be first to be exposed.”

What happens next is the “sixty-four million dollar question”, and largely depends on how well the virus is contained in the hospital, they said.

“To put it into context. We are now where Italy was two weeks ago.”

Who do we blame for this ? The Government for not implementing tuff rules or do you blame the Doctor??