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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Every hospital seems to be on lockdown atm , that a massive red flag. Could preparations have went any worse I'm not sure

    Sensible precautions.

    Currently on day 5 of 12 in a large public hospital. Hospital operating well. Everyone rowing in. Suspected patients rapidly triaged and moved through the system. Tests performed rapidly when appropriate. Guidelines updated daily including this afternoon.


    If there is a large spike various options being discussed and contingency plans being made and reviewed daily.


    Any of the experts here want to come in and do a few days at the weekend? Seem to know much better than anyone here anyway.

    Nobody knows what will happen. Could it get difficult, absolutely. But it’s not the circus either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,849 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Will there be proper announcement at 8.30 - 45 of the cases confirmed today.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,867 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Runaways wrote: »
    If you haven’t heard calans kicks on the radio tonight you should listen.
    The hse corona hotline bit especially.
    Nailed it.

    It was good!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,370 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Stupid people those Slovakias they have just lost all that Italian tourist money I bet they wished they had our wise leadership.:rolleyes:

    They're just going to pocket the tourist money for the weekend first though, so yeah, great lads.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Runaways wrote: »
    If you haven’t heard calans kicks on the radio tonight you should listen.
    The hse corona hotline bit especially.
    Nailed it.

    How are you doing still in hospital?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    joe_99 wrote: »
    If everyone washed their hands this virus would find it so hard to spread

    Im sure washing our hands does help, it's decreasing the chance of contacting the virus we may come in contact witn by touching things and then touching our eyes, nose and mouth. It's not the only method of catching the virus though.

    I think too much emphasis is put on this as a sort of "comfort blanket" to make us all feel we have a real major way of preventing this virus from getting hold.

    The powers to be are trying to prevent panic and the whole system from shutting down for as long as they can.

    Im in Malaga atm, the last I heard is 13 cases in Andalusia and most cases are connected to (go on guess where), Northern Italy.

    People saying "stop flights from Northern Italy" are right. Its too late to prevent what's already happened but it will still help reduce further exposure.

    This bulls*it about getting trains or other ways, may be true but it will definitely curtail the amount coming. If that doesn't work find other methods to stop them

    These fools saying you can't stop flights or no point now, if they or their families get very sick or die, wouldn't be long changing their tunes. Big brave keyboard fools!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭alroley


    Widespread school and university closures will be announced tonight

    On a friday?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    Widespread school and university closures will be announced tonight

    Source?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Well they do that anyway with migrants

    They don't really have those powers with migrants either but my understanding is there were some new capabilities and funding put in place after the 2015 migrant crisis...are you saying that's a bad thing?
    Ah well, suppose there is literally nothing the EU can do right in the eyes of Brexiteers and the like.
    Who knows, maybe the virus was cooked up in a secret lab under the Berlaymont that is run by reptilians?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Widespread school and university closures will be announced tonight

    Would not make sense as Leo has given Paddy's Day his backing.

    I'm calling fake news on the word "Widespread".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    seamus wrote: »
    Red flag of what?
    That's not unexpected once you've seen a community infection.

    Expect nursing and convalescent homes to follow suit.

    The hospitals haven't magically spotted anything that the HSE hasn't.

    The only major difference in this instance is that the lockdown will be countrywide. Usually only hospitals.in a region lockdown when there's a flu or vomiting bug outbreak.

    A number of nursing homes around Wicklow and Kildare have issued this already since last week


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sorry now but I’m getting pretty tired of this “everyone wash their hands shlt”. I can wash my hands from now until kingdom come, but if they’re still letting in students from Italy and allowing frivolous ski trips and parades to take place, it’s not much good is it. Yes we all have to do our bit individually to minimise the risk but no amount of hand washing is going to stop Italian exchange students entering

    Ah here.

    You wash your hands to protect YOUR OWN BLOODY SELF from bugs you've come into contact with, primarily.

    Just...honestly...I give up. Stop washing your hands so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    When you think about it, it would have made much more sense to have a centralized Facility(s) to treat all
    cases and Suspect cases.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,805 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Notice Turkey (large country of 80m) aren't reporting a single case.
    Yet they're surrounded by 5/6 infected nations on all sides, and have the small matter of hoards that moved through it, and getting pushed/bussed to Greece's borders.

    If/when Corona virus hits the Turkey/Syria border the outcome won't be good.
    Certain countries aren't reporting numbers despite being surrounded by affected countries.

    Bulgaria and Turkey are prime examples.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Will there be proper announcement at 8.30 - 45 of the cases confirmed today.
    I misread that as

    Will there be proper announcement at 8.30 - of the 45 cases confirmed today


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,700 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Widespread school and university closures will be announced tonight
    dan786 wrote: »
    Source?

    Widespread school and university closures


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    Sensible precautions.

    Currently on day 5 of 12 in a large public hospital. Hospital operating well. Everyone rowing in. Suspected patients rapidly triaged and moved through the system. Tests performed rapidly when appropriate. Guidelines updated daily including this afternoon.


    If there is a large spike various options being discussed and contingency plans being made and reviewed daily.


    Any of the experts here want to come in and do a few days at the weekend? Seem to know much better than anyone here anyway.

    Nobody knows what will happen. Could it get difficult, absolutely. But it’s not the circus either.

    Firstly thank you for your service.

    Secondly I don’t think anyone here has an issue with staff in hospitals. Upper management screws you guys day to day virus or no virus. I think most people are upset with the lack of preparation taken given the amount of time we as a island nation had to prepare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    I would have thought that Dublin would be hit hard with this but Cork seems to have the most worrying cases now. We still don't know how that patient got it no link with China or Italy or being overseas.


    I guess Cork will manage strong and capable people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    There won't be school and college closures yet. Schools are low risk, so that won't happen for a while.

    Tonight's update will likely present 5-15 new cases and a change of strategy. They will mostly withdraw from contact tracing and will move to self-isolation for anyone worried as well as giving ambulances/emergency crews the ability to carry out tests.
    Hospitals will all be advised to go into lockdown, people will be advised against any non-urgent international travel, and organisers of large gatherings advised to consider postponing if they can.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,741 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    ecoli3136 wrote: »
    Ah here.

    You wash your hands to protect YOUR OWN BLOODY SELF from bugs you've come into contact with, primarily.

    Just...honestly...I give up. Stop washing your hands so.

    Can't do much with that type of thinking really


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    thomas 123 wrote: »
    When you think about it, it would have made much more sense to have a centralized Facility(s) to treat all
    cases and Suspect cases.

    North Korea style.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭joe40


    Widespread school and university closures will be announced tonight

    We're not going to ban parades but we will cause massive disruption with serious knock on effects to our economy by closing schools and University. Nowhere near that point yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    Ambos seen picking someone up in full hazmat suits in Carlow town. Is this the new protocol now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Dante7 wrote: »
    Spanish flu had a mean R0 of 2. Covid-19 has a current R0 of 2.28.

    99% of Spanish Flu deaths in the USA were under 65. Covid is lethal to people over that age. SF infected about 500 million people, cover won't get anywhere near that number, or it's mortality rates.

    Give over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,714 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Encouraging news on the fatality rate of Covid-19 from South Korea, the only country with a proper testing program:
    With 140,000 people tested, the country’s mortality rate is just over 0.6 per cent compared to the 3.4 per cent global average reported by the WHO
    Various factors can influence this percentage, but scientists agree that all things being equal, it is more accurate when more people are tested

    ....And while experts caution that it is still too early to draw firm conclusions, the picture emerging in South Korea – which has the most confirmed cases outside China but with a more transparent political environment – suggests the virus could be less lethal than patchier data emerging from elsewhere.

    “If we can test more people – whether they have no symptoms, mild or severe disease – the results, including the case fatality rate, are more accurate and representative when the whole disease spectrum is taken into consideration,” said David Hui Shu-cheong, an expert in respiratory medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Most countries just focus on testing the hospitalised patients who obviously have more severe disease, and [thus] the fatality rate is high.”

    https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3065187/coronavirus-south-koreas-aggressive-testing-gives


    On the other hand, a 0.6% fatality rate means far more infections in the community that have not been detected. For each death there will be 166 infections, and that is still six times the fatality rate of regular flu.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    If a cute Italian girl offered you a ride today, would you take up the offer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    North Korea style.
    12792432484_25a160b02e_z.jpg?itok=0Go-LPtj

    Yeah lol that sounded a bit extreme alright, you know what I mean though.

    Given that the vast majority of cases are “capable of treating at home”(news) then isolation facilities away from our hospitals where our most vulnerable people are would make sense in my mind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    If a cute Italian girl offered you a ride today, would you take up the offer?

    I like scary rides.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    If a cute Italian girl offered you a ride today, would you take up the offer?

    Cute enough might be worth it !!
    :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    If a cute Italian girl offered you a ride today, would you take up the offer?

    Odds on that. A lot lower than catching catching the virus


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