CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)*OP upd 28/03*

wadacrack wrote: »

We only have about 200 ICU beds now.

It has been widely reported that ICU numbers have more than doubled since this started. At the CUH alone they're renovating all the old wards for beds.

owlbethere wrote: »

Its not the HSE responsibility to close our borders or to stop flights. They probably had a hard time trying to hammer home how serious this is to our government. Remember the weekend of the 6/7/8 of March here. There was very little action done from our government. The paddy's day parades should ha e been cancelled well before then given what was happening around Europe with the health crisises all around. Our government cared more about parades and economic activity than they did about showing some respect to our European neighbours that were suffering from this disease.

Yes I m sorry I meant the government yes they should have taken it seriously

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Has it been clarified that ICU numbers are not current and are total cases there to date? I've a feeling that it is total to date, the same as the hospitalization numbers.

Wouldn't make any sense to give cumulative numbers - reporters would be asking how is there a 1000 people in ICU when only 500 beds

Number updated to match todays report

No Change in number


Slow Change


Big Drop in numbers


again with all of this i'm just trying to show people the 14 day delay in an change in how we deal with this
if you wait till we are overloaded it's too late
everyone has to make up there own mind but at least look at the maths

3 weeks no change 44K
3 weeks slow change 29K
3 weeks big drop 9K

1 month no change 151K
1 month slow change 56K
1 month big drop 11K

you need to decide what you do today to affect 3 weeks from now

Jeez, Trump is REALLY away with the fairies

cnocbui wrote: »

When was the last time you got down on you knees and licked a street?

Child drops dummy mother wipes it child continues to suck dummy.

Just 1 easy example how it gets picked up of the street

Everything is incredible, just incredible says Trump. Incredible.

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Jeez, Trump is REALLY away with the fairies

What is he saying now?

wadacrack wrote: »

We dont have much better resources that countries in Eastern Europe(Serbia, Albania, Bosnia) in terms of ICU beds. They all had a lockdown within their first 10 cases. We were way too slow. We only have about 200 ICU beds now.

That's not fully true. There was a guy on the radio this morning reporting from Bosnia and he said they only have 40-50 ICU beds. Their population is about 3 million so we would have much higher capacity per capita. Agree that we are not well resourced though, hopefully that gets better.

Looks like there is probably some commuter infection from Dublin happening in Wicklow

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

That is ridiculous.

So you want the travellers to keep being moved on and the virus too, if they have it?

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

My granny is 97 and thankfully she's not really aware of what's going on. She's been saying she's ready to go for years and I'd love if she just went peacefully too. I'd hate for her to have healthcare workers in hazmat suits treating her, it'd frighten the life out of her.

It must be like a horror movie for anyone elderly to be going through that as well as being Sick seeing them in the hazmat suits them poor people in the nursing home

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Hospitalized numbers are accumulated. I just thought they'd do ICU the same.

All other country reports do the same for infections but not for hospital capacity

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Put on CNN. It's laughable

Not near a tv. No doubt he'll say something similar on his Twitter.