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

froog wrote: »

yup. a bad miscalculation that has clogged up our testing regime and lost us valuable time. most saw this coming.

Was always going to happen really. Most of the nation seems to panic with anything medical.

We cleared the a&es for this but now everyone with a sniffle is clogging up the gp system.

But the main thing that they said during the press conference is that the test is only a confirmer. If anyone has symptoms that dont require hospital treatment, self isolate for 14 days. That way we stop any further spread outside of the house during that period.

Which is crucial, have symptoms isolate simple as. Only way to stop the spread test or no test

With only two people allowed to gather in the north living in the north I will have to go south for a threesome 🙈🙈

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

IRELAND

Info released 11th Feb - 65 tested 0 confirmed for period start (?) up to Mon 10th Feb
Info released 19th Feb - 78 tested 0 confirmed - 13 new tests in week Tue 11th to Mon 18th Feb
Info released 25th Feb 90 tested 0 confirmed - 12 new tests in week Tue 19th - Mon 24th Feb
Info released 3rd March 397 tested 2 confirmed - 307 tests in week Tue 25th Feb to Mon 2nd March
Info released 10th March 1784 tested 34 (+32) confirmed - 1387 tests in week Tue 3rd Mar to Mon 9th March
Info released 17th March 6636 tested 292 (+258) confirmed 2 deaths- 4852 tests in week Tue 10th March to Mon 16th March

Info released 24th March 17992 tested 1329 (+1037) confirmed 7 (+5) deaths - 11356 tests in week Tuesday 17th March to Monday 23rd March

Average of 1622 tests carried out per day based on 7 day week.

Can't see how they suddenly caught up in 2 days, said on sat those infected were probably prior to the 13th

What's the current ICU number for ROI?

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

What's an official lockdown?

Nothing wrong with the term as such -don't know if any other comparable designation has been coined.
Some people however dislike its connotations because it's origin seems to lie in the US to refer to a police action in a mass shooting type /terrorist incident.
I'd say we're stuck with it.

yourdeadwright wrote: »

How many cases today?

204 in ROI

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1242482103457062913

Every time I see her tweeting about Trump I have an out-of-body cringe, she's largely to blame for him being in the White House.
But yeah, slay queen etc.

techdiver wrote:

Thanks for the reply. Sorry what I meat regarding the analysis of the test was not any Joe Soap from the street, I meant acquiring technicians from another lab environments that may not necessarily be diagnostic in nature. Still qualified but from a different line of business. (Perhaps that is what the HSE are attempting at the moment considering they wish to ramp up diagnosis?)

What i meant about qualified personnel carrying out the testing is that it is only done by Medical Scientists that are accredited by the Academy of Medical Laboratory Scientists (AMLS).

Three college courses in the ROI are accredited. Those with other science related degrees arent accredited and therefore not qualified to perform testing.

Be right back wrote: »

The bloke in charge of the web summit. Was asking personal details about one of the people who died yesterday as a foreign journalist had asked him about it. On his Twitter page.

Apparently they are trying to generate some sort of statistical info.

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

So, I still can't understand this. Or maybe I can.

Britain 66 million.
Ireland 5 million
66/5= 13

Britain coronavirus deaths: 424
Ireland coronavirus deaths: 7
424/7= 60

Pro rata, Ireland should have 37 deaths.

What are we doing right or what are they doing wrong? Or what have they done wrong more likely.

My basic assumption is that often it's just a question of who's a few days ahead.
We're doing pretty much the same stuff as the UK, France, Germany.
Some places started a bit earlier, some a little later, none as late as Italy.

But I'm not aware of any country in Europe (bar Iceland?) or the US doing what's going to be needed to stop this.
Instead we've dithered and been indecisive due to a desire not to damage the economy and a defeatist attitude that it's just going to spread anyway.
We're now all looking at crises in our healthcare services and, ironically, a much bigger hit to the economy.

And still we're not doing what we need to do, which is what worked in S Korea.
Movement restrictions are just one part - at the same time we have to start doing huge amounts of fast turnaround testing to find & isolate cases, then massive scale rapid contact tracing / alerting, isolation and testing.

The testing and contact tracing we are doing right now is happening slower than the virus is spreading, so we are never going to keep it under control.
We need to get ahead of it.

Otherwise it's going to be one lockdown after another each time we start to lose control again.

samples good for 7-10 days confirmed.

stop spreading ****e lads.

I have to say I am extremely impressed with Tony Holohan who must be under tremendous pressure. His answer when he talked about the other consequences of the current crisis such as the effects on the mental health and the increase of alcohol consumption shows that he is looking at the current situation from a holistic viewpoint is very encouraging

froog wrote: »

dublin is getting out of control. it should be locked down wuhan style.

And the virus seems to be spreading there too.

spookwoman wrote: »

looking to get system like this one set up
https://www.againstcovid19.com/singapore/dashboard

That's it.
I don't know if it is a useful exercise but it's fashionable to hate PC so he's probably on a hiding to nothing.