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CoVid-19 Part IX - 785 cases ROI (3 deaths) 108 in NI (1 death) (20 March) *Read OP*

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  • #4172
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,886 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Sorry if this was shared before and I missed it, but see here some footage inside a Bergamo hospital and a short interview with a doctor there: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apocalypse-inside-italys-hardest-hit-hospital-11960597


  • #4173
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...


  • #4174
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,061 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Frankenchrist wrote: »
    What do das Germans know that we don't? Pretty impressive, the difference between them and the Brits for example with cases/deaths is mind boggling.
    No idea.
    A reason given often is: wide-spread testing that catches the mild cases.
    One crucial data that I do not see in their report is: the number of people in hospital

    https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Gesamt.html

    While, in the reports from Italy, you can clearly see: how many in hospitals and how many quarantined at home.
    And what I do not understand is: Germany currently have 2 people in intensive care.
    So why are they stockpiling ventilators, then ?
    "Last week, the federal government ordered an extra 10,000 life-saving ventilators from a German manufacturer, on top of the 25,000 that are already in place in hospitals across the country. The city state of Berlin, which has so far recorded 391 cases of Covid-19, is converting parts of the local trade fair ground into a 1,000-bed hospital for future coronavirus patients. Similar steps have been taken across the country."
    https://www.ft.com/content/c0755b30-69bb-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3


  • #4175
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    otnomart wrote: »
    No idea.
    A reason given often is: wide-spread testing that catches the mild cases.
    One crucial data that I do not see in their report is: the number of people in hospital

    https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Gesamt.html

    While, in the reports from Italy, you can clearly see: how many in hospitals and how many quarantined at home.
    And what I do not understand is: Germany currently have 2 people in intensive care.
    So why are they stockpiling ventilators, then ?
    "Last week, the federal government ordered an extra 10,000 life-saving ventilators from a German manufacturer, on top of the 25,000 that are already in place in hospitals across the country. The city state of Berlin, which has so far recorded 391 cases of Covid-19, is converting parts of the local trade fair ground into a 1,000-bed hospital for future coronavirus patients. Similar steps have been taken across the country."
    https://www.ft.com/content/c0755b30-69bb-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3

    Lot's of countries starting to ban export of medicines necessary to treat patients with corona in the EU. Some aren't necessarily banning export but aren't issuing export licenses so can't cross a border. Our government should retaliate if we are not able to source the medicines or equipment we need.

    https://www.dennybros.com/ireland-a-world-leader-in-pharmaceutical/

    Free movement of people seems to be shutting down, goods are following close behind.

    We might have to get through this with cabbage and spuds. Thank god we have that output.


  • #4176
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...


    Nobody knows what's going to happen. Yeah, it could be years, but the writers of that article have as much of a clue as you or me.


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  • #4177
    Hrududu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...

    I can feel your anxiety from here.


  • #4178
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...

    James Gallagher who wrote the piece has a qualification in biology but has been a journalist for 15 years. His role is to garner clicks and is not on the cutting edge. Don’t take his opinion and writing as gospel. He is simply regurgitating snippets of public knowledge.

    Wait for official information. Your mind will be addled if we believe what press tells us.


  • #4179
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    It's not just those demographics with that attitude - it's boomers and older too. And a 37-year-old with no underlying conditions has died in Spain.

    Italy's death toll is now higher than China's. Not percentage but actual numbers. :(

    Should be said that that number includes people who were going to die soon anyway and contracted the virus. But that is still frightening and nuts.

    I think those people should be counted separately; Ones admitted to hospital for other reasons or who died of another main cause and just happened to have COVID 19. It makes the impact of the virus very unclear


  • #4180
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭harr


    This social distancing is just not being taken at all seriously by teenagers. I have a friend who owns a small shop in the west , I was talking to him last and he was after trying to run a large group of teenagers hanging around outside of shop all had full bags of drinks and heading off to a house party . He got nothing but abuse when he tried to implement the one in one out policy.
    They then all started fake coughing... and even said that if they get the virus it wouldn’t kill them and only older people like my friend and they didn’t care ..


  • #4181
    dummy_crusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭dummy_crusher


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486
    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    A lot of people have been dismissing the Imperial College Report released on the 16th, based on the belief that it was what pushed the U.K. to go with their initial herd immunity approach.

    I highly recommend everybody reads this for themselves since what they suggest as being the most appropriate approach is an ON/OFF trigger for activating a lockdown situation, the trigger being when the number of patients in ICU reaches a certain value. This does project out to a couple of years but the effect on total number of deaths is significant.
    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...

    Please don't do anything silly now :)


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  • #4182
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,840 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    There are still a lot of businesses open at present

    Are we not best to force shutdown of many to really tackle the increase in cases?

    Many of these businesses would not be deemed essential to people..

    Car showrooms, for example, still open...


  • #4183
    Burty330
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Exactly, the only people traveling right now are the ones with a really good reason, like Irish citizens returning home. DFA are urgently telling all Irish citizens worldwide to return ASAP, so it's perfectly understandable to keep the airports open. Closing them at this late stage would just cause massive disruption to those trying to get home.

    Shut your hole you disgusting splatter of PIGSLOP.


    Mod

    Banned


  • #4184
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,970 ✭✭✭plodder


    otnomart wrote: »
    No idea.
    A reason given often is: wide-spread testing that catches the mild cases.
    One crucial data that I do not see in their report is: the number of people in hospital

    https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Gesamt.html

    While, in the reports from Italy, you can clearly see: how many in hospitals and how many quarantined at home.
    And what I do not understand is: Germany currently have 2 people in intensive care.
    So why are they stockpiling ventilators, then ?
    "Last week, the federal government ordered an extra 10,000 life-saving ventilators from a German manufacturer, on top of the 25,000 that are already in place in hospitals across the country. The city state of Berlin, which has so far recorded 391 cases of Covid-19, is converting parts of the local trade fair ground into a 1,000-bed hospital for future coronavirus patients. Similar steps have been taken across the country."
    https://www.ft.com/content/c0755b30-69bb-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3
    44 deaths but only two are in critical care and according to wikipedia they had 11 deaths in the last recorded day. Doesn't sound credible. Or else people are dying at home without getting to hospital.

    “The opposite of 'good' is 'good intentions'”



  • #4185
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...
    Seek out information-based articles not opinions posing as information. The latter can be very bad for your mental well-being and as suggested the writer may be even more clueless than the reader.


  • #4186
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭Jin luk


    If this became endemic would it seriously lower life expectancy?

    Have we a vaccine for any coronavirus at all?


  • #4187
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭MOR316


    What the **** is a boomer?


  • #4188
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    joeguevara wrote: »
    James Gallagher who wrote the piece has a qualification in biology but has been a journalist for 15 years. His role is to garner clicks and is not on the cutting edge. Don’t take his opinion and writing as gospel. He is simply regurgitating snippets of public knowledge.

    Wait for official information. Your mind will be addled if we believe what press tells us.

    Dr John is saying the same, a year at least, and he has been right about EVERYTHING so far ...


  • #4189
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭MOR316


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Seek out information-based articles not opinions posing as information. The latter can be very bad for your mental well-being and as suggested the writer may be even more clueless than the reader.

    That's the case with everyday tabloids...Doesn't stop people believing everything they read or see in them


  • #4190
    MintyMagnum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭MintyMagnum


    UsBus wrote: »
    This would absolutely infuriate me. It's not on to waking people in the middle of a working week with late night parties at the best of times. To be doing it at the moment is disgraceful. I'd be letting them know it's not on, maybe call to their door all desheveled with a mask on and see how they take it..

    And take the mask down and cough uncontrollably


  • #4191
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Coronavirus: Tens of thousands of retired medics asked to return to NHS

    Is it not us who are always being the UK?


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  • #4192
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,557 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...

    Best to keep away from any british articles,they have proven themselves to be buffoons over there lately.stick with irish news from reputable experts and specialists


  • #4193
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    walshb wrote: »
    There are still a lot of businesses open at present

    Are we not best to force shutdown of many to really tackle the increase in cases?

    Many of these businesses would not be deemed essential to people..

    Car showrooms, for example, still open...

    They are fighting for their economic lives

    Put yourself in their shoes


  • #4194
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,512 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Burty330 wrote: »
    Shut your hole you disgusting splatter of PIGSLOP.

    Mod

    Do not post in this thread again

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



  • #4195
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,280 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    They are fighting for their economic lives

    Put yourself in their shoes

    People are fighting for their actual lives.


  • #4196
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Jin luk wrote: »
    If this became endemic would it seriously lower life expectancy?

    Have we a vaccine for any coronavirus at all?

    We were making great progress on a SARS vaccine and trials but funding was cut when SARS went away. It seems we would have been much closer to a COVID19 vaccine if the SARS program was completed in early 2000s.


  • #4197
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Now now, let's not get you banned from another forum.

    Have to tip my hat to your leniency, i have been banned for less in the past.

    Imagine how stressed people are going to be in two weeks on here.

    Mass bans will be the order of the day, i dont envy moderators job on this subject.


  • #4198
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,061 ✭✭✭otnomart


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Something stinks about this virus. How it has moved all over the globe in no time whatsoever. I can't help but feel that it was already rampant throughout the world

    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Air travel.


    Know we now (from genomic data) that the virus was introduced early in Europe, with early cases in the Netherlands and Germany which appear to have been the main gateways thanks to the busy airport hubs.
    There was also a death in Valencia on the 13 February.


    Three Irish cases in Nextstrain are as follows:
    -the Dublin one was originated via the Netherlands and/or Bavaria (via Italy)
    -one from Limerick was originated via England and/or the Netherlands
    -second one from Limerick is 100% from the Netherlands


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112874852&postcount=9150


  • #4199
    RollieFingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    walshb wrote: »
    There are still a lot of businesses open at present

    Are we not best to force shutdown of many to really tackle the increase in cases?

    Many of these businesses would not be deemed essential to people..

    Car showrooms, for example, still open...

    The office I work in in the city centre is still open, commuting in as we speak.

    Last weekend I was hoping to get word they would be closing as the thought of the travel in was freaking me out. However, after acquiring a mask and seeing how empty the DART is it's actually not so bad.

    Great to still be earning at a time like this and not be one of the many unlucky people to have been laid off, hopefully it is only temporarily for the majority of you. Saying that I would have no argument if they do shut the doors though.


  • #4200
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    By the way it's Friday and the sun is shining bright.

    :)


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  • #4201
    robinph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,146 ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Regarding the ventilators being made by other companies, the UK health Secretary was saying this morning that they had openly published the deigns for any engineering company to use and they are already testing some newly built ones to check for standards that some places have already made.


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