CoVid19 Part X - 1,564 cases ROI (9 deaths) 209 in NI (7 deaths) (25 March) Read OP

fin12 · 24-03-2020 08:00PM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8146565/Scientists-Iceland-claim-FORTY-mutations-coronavirus.html

Forty mutations of virus found.

Mwengwe · 24-03-2020 08:01PM

KiKi III wrote: »

Why haven't today's numbers come out yet? It's giving me anxiety.

Why? What difference does it make? The numbers are essentially meaningless at this point anyway, we know they're not accurate, we know they're going to keep rising and that it will probably be another week at least before the effect of social distancing becomes evident. Every day on here someone is freaking out about the numbers not being released. We're in this for the long haul.

Mervyn Skidmore · 24-03-2020 08:01PM

KiKi III wrote: »

Why haven't today's numbers come out yet? It's giving me anxiety.

They count them on their fingers, it takes a while.

FVP3 · 24-03-2020 08:01PM

Happy4all wrote: »

Would going to the shop for a bottle of wine be considered essential shopping?

Buy some butter with the wine, and it is.

DOCARCH · 24-03-2020 08:01PM

France: +2,448 new cases/+240 additional deaths.

Less new cases than yesterday but more deaths.

Hobgoblin11 · 24-03-2020 08:01PM

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

They count them on their fingers, it takes a while.

that's complicated

martingriff · 24-03-2020 08:02PM

Alun wrote: »

Just back from a walk along Bray promenade. Probably a good 5m wide, so plenty of room for people to walk in line either side and leave a good distance between them. But no, people walking towards us, 3 or 4 abreast, right in the middle, and not making any attempt to move. Ended up walking along the pebbles on the beach instead.

I am guessing some of them maybe from the same house and not doing it in the house they do not do it with jogging together

ninebeanrows · 24-03-2020 08:02PM

DOCARCH wrote: »

France: +2,448 new cases/+240 additional deaths.

Less new cases than yesterday but more deaths.

Youd kind of expect the deaths to continue upward after the % new cases decline would one? As it probably takes 7-10 days for the disease to kill a patient.

DOCARCH · 24-03-2020 08:03PM

5th death in NI. A female in her 80's.

is_that_so · 24-03-2020 08:03PM

DOCARCH wrote: »

France: +2,448 new cases/+240 additional deaths.

Less new cases than yesterday but more deaths.

Yeah somewhat like Italy, but maybe the peak coming?

KiKi III · 24-03-2020 08:03PM

Mwengwe wrote: »

Why? What difference does it make? The numbers are essentially meaningless at this point anyway, we know they're not accurate, we know they're going to keep rising and that it will probably be another week at least before the effect of social distancing becomes evident. Every day on here someone is freaking out about the numbers not being released. We're in this for the long haul.

The numbers are far from meaningless. They might not be totally accurate yet but they are the best indicator we have on whether our measures are starting to work.

Pubs and schools were closed over a week ago and events started getting cancelled, lots of shops shut their doors voluntarily. It should start making a difference very soon and if not we need more measures in place.

24-03-2020 08:04PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I think many are coming around to the idea that we have more in common that with the UK

Might be like when the north was bombed during ww2, they were happy for the fire brigade from the south to turn up and then back to normal once the danger passed.

BrianD3 · 24-03-2020 08:04PM

MD1990 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3QqNeeWUA

72% of ICU patients in the UK where overweight/obese,

Seems a even bigger risk than smoking.

Not necessarily significant - a large percentage of the general UK population (that is not in ICU) is overweight or obese - percentage must be close to 72%.

Yurt2 · 24-03-2020 08:04PM

fin12 wrote: »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8146565/Scientists-Iceland-claim-FORTY-mutations-coronavirus.html

Forty mutations of virus found.

If true, would any science-type person like to speculate would so many mutations mean making an effective one-size-fits-all vaccine more difficult?

FVP3 · 24-03-2020 08:05PM

DOCARCH wrote: »

France: +2,448 new cases/+240 additional deaths.

Less new cases than yesterday but more deaths.

Deaths would lag cases though.

It's worth looking at the logarithmic graphs on worldometer, and use a ruler or a straight edge to see where Italy and the others would be today if the trend had matched where it was a week or so ago. I get about 1 million infected in Italy, so what they are doing works.

( Theres no way it couldn't work though).

Say my name · 24-03-2020 08:06PM

TTLF wrote: »

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1242517402426003459?s=20

The comments to this tweet are sorta funny, "I WILL NOT BE SENDING MY CHILD IN!" etc, Calling out RTÉ saying it's stupid to school to keep open

So it looks like the leaving and junior cert could be in August/ September and no summer holidays..?.

Mwengwe · 24-03-2020 08:07PM

KiKi III wrote: »

The numbers are far from meaningless. They might not be totally accurate yet but they are the best indicator we have on whether our measures are starting to work.

Pubs and schools were closed over a week ago and events started getting cancelled, lots of shops shut their doors voluntarily. It should start making a difference very soon and if not we need more measures in place.

Not yet. The measures came in (mostly) just before St Patricks Day - it's too early to see the effect of that. If we do see the effects over the next day or two then we'll be in really good shape relative to other countries. But I don't think we will. There's also a big backlog of tests so there's going to be a big rise at some point, that people will over-react to.

FVP3 · 24-03-2020 08:07PM

KiKi III wrote: »

The numbers are far from meaningless. They might not be totally accurate yet but they are the best indicator we have on whether our measures are starting to work.

Pubs and schools were closed over a week ago and events started getting cancelled, lots of shops shut their doors voluntarily. It should start making a difference very soon and if not we need more measures in place.

The best measure is deaths and ICU cases actually. If they are not increasing exponentially then the curve is flattening, even if we can't see it in the tests, because we are doing more tests.

Widdensushi · 24-03-2020 08:07PM

KiKi III wrote: »

The numbers are far from meaningless. They might not be totally accurate yet but they are the best indicator we have on whether our measures are starting to work.

Pubs and schools were closed over a week ago and events started getting cancelled, lots of shops shut their doors voluntarily. It should start making a difference very soon and if not we need more measures in place.

but there are people waiting for a test nearly since those measures, it will take longer to see the results.

martingriff · 24-03-2020 08:08PM

Say my name wrote: »

So it looks like the leaving and junior cert could be in August/ September and no summer holidays..?.

They started 2 weeks ago

is_that_so · 24-03-2020 08:08PM

Like this one too.

https://twitter.com/NoelRock/status/1242096488269918208

Strumms · 24-03-2020 08:10PM

That’s brilliant, hilarious and practical

saabsaab · 24-03-2020 08:10PM

Yurt! wrote: »

If true, would any science-type person like to speculate would so many mutations mean making an effective one-size-fits-all vaccine more difficult?

It could. Harder to easily target, it would depend what and where the variation is/are.

Hobgoblin11 · 24-03-2020 08:12PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Like this one too.

https://twitter.com/NoelRock/status/1242096488269918208

paranoid feckers :pac:

KiKi III · 24-03-2020 08:12PM

FVP3 wrote: »

The best measure is deaths and ICU cases actually. If they are not increasing exponentially then the curve is flattening, even if we can't see it in the tests, because we are doing more tests.

Sure those are the figures I'm talking about? Along with newly diagnosed cases.

hotmail.com · 24-03-2020 08:12PM

KiKi III wrote: »

Why haven't today's numbers come out yet? It's giving me anxiety.

8.45 PM I think.

hotmail.com · 24-03-2020 08:12PM

Britain building a temporary hospital in a conference centre which will accom 4,000 people.

hotmail.com · 24-03-2020 08:12PM

KiKi III wrote: »

Why haven't today's numbers come out yet? It's giving me anxiety.

8.45 PM I think.

DOCARCH · 24-03-2020 08:13PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Like this one too.

https://twitter.com/NoelRock/status/1242096488269918208

They are sitting outside the Department of Health! Probably sent by the CIF, with their measuring tapes, to show how responsible builders are! :P

RugbyLad11 · 24-03-2020 08:13PM

DOCARCH wrote: »

5th death in NI. A female in her 80's.

They almost got the same amount of deaths as us but we have almost 1000 more cases than them:eek:

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CoVid19 Part X - 1,564 cases ROI (9 deaths) 209 in NI (7 deaths) (25 March) Read OP