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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,758 ✭✭✭weisses


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    You cannot compare Ireland and New Zealand.

    1) For one Ireland receives millions more tourist each year

    2) Ireland is tech capital of Europe, with pretty much every big tech company having a presence here. This leads to a lot of people travelling for business and makes Dublin a lot more international

    Plus new Zealand has a proper rugby team...




    I let myself out


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Most countries are a couple weeks into a pandemic and currently have relatively few deaths, 19 deaths here is still just a really tiny sample. Its simply much too small to be suggestive of any greater trend, for now its just an anomaly that may be suggestive of a trend. But you need a much large amount of data eon deaths and iCU and cases to properly be able to assess whether a country is actually dealing better or worse than another

    Saying Denmark for example with 50 deaths is doing 'twice as badly' as Ireland is ridiculous. What if Ireland has 15 today, and Denmark doesnt today, in 24 hours has Ireland become just as bad at saving lives as Denmark? You could also say on with this kind of tiny amount of data that potentially Denarks mortality growth has dropped to zero while Irelands is now doubling daily. No its just with such a relatively tiny numbers of cases and deaths any changes will widly and unreliably swing the apparent mortality rates for better or worse, you cant make any genuine or valid assertions based on them at this stage.

    No, I'm just giving the latest figures. It doesn't make for good reading no matter what way you look at it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Different Day 1s does make a difference to deaths. Fewer deaths *today* doesn’t really mean anything if the virus has been here for two weeks and there for 5 days. As we have seen, 24 hours is a long time in the life of this virus.
    Somebody suggested here over the last few day using the date of first recorded death.

    It seems to me that using that date rather than a day one based on first confirmed case would serve to allow more realistic comparison between otherwise the very varied 'confirmed case' data.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    timhenn wrote: »
    No,it's showing the current situation. Poland had their first case on the 4th of March, Ireland on the first. As I said, this is not good.

    Yes, three days difference. If you look at our numbers today vs 3 days ago you should be able to see what a huge difference three days makes in this virus.

    I’m not just saying this to be snarky, you don’t seem to have a good understanding of how statistics work and how to measure these things accurately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    Big jump in numbers in UK. Big jump


    https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14

    I took a screenshot on Wednesday , so that I can get my figures right.

    Figures below are "Wednesday / right now "

    Total UK Cases

    9,529 / 11,658


    Total UK deaths

    464 / 578

    Daily confirmed cases

    1,452 / 2,129


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    Give it a break lad, like seriously what benefit has it got being so negative?

    What do you want to achieve by constantly going on about it??

    I'd say you be great craic to hang out with in normally setting

    What's your problem?

    This is about the number of deaths in Ireland. You know, actual people dying? Do you see a positive side to that?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1243540327643955200



    Yes. But what was the source of these outbreaks.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    NH2013 wrote: »
    Well let me put it to you this way, 1/3 of Irish adults are dependent on long term prescription medicines, of which between 60-70% of which are imported from abroad.

    That means that of the aprox 3.2m adults in this country almost a million are dependent on medicines, 700,000 of which are medicines that come in from abroad, from asthma, to diabetes, to blood thinners etc.

    Should we deprive those 700,000 people of their medicines being imported on these mostly cargo flights in order to stop the potentially 3-4 people on the flights arriving, who'll have to quarantine for 14 days anyways.

    Where did I say ban cargo flights? I said ban passenger flights or restrict to an amount of people who can be quarantined for 2 weeks on arrival from places like NY and London. This would go a huge way to helping us flatten the curve.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14

    I took a screenshot on Wednesday , so that I can get my figures right.

    Figures below are "Wednesday / right now "

    Total UK Cases

    9,529 / 11,658


    Total UK deaths

    464 / 578

    Daily confirmed cases

    1,452 / 2,129

    The Prime Minister and Health Secretary being two of that increase.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Yes, three days difference. If you look at our numbers today vs 3 days ago you should be able to see what a huge difference three days makes in this virus.

    I’m not just saying this to be snarky, you don’t seem to have a good understanding of how statistics work and how to measure these things accurately.

    Poland has a population of over 36 million! I think it's you who lacks knowledge on statistics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,369 ✭✭✭paul71


    weisses wrote: »
    Plus new Zealand has a proper rugby team...




    I let myself out

    Yeah please do :(:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,785 ✭✭✭✭josip


    I'd like if someone can review my methodology for the graph below please?
    I took the HSE numbers for ICU beds over the past week.
    There's a 2 day lag in those numbers according to them

    17/03/2020 7
    18/03/2020 12
    19/03/2020 13
    20/03/2020 17
    21/03/2020 25
    22/03/2020 36
    23/03/2020 39
    24/03/2020 47

    I calculated the day on day %age increase and then the 3 day moving average for those.
    I then graphed the best case increase (24%) in orange and worst case (41%) in red, day on day projections for ICU bed numbers.

    1b9FY0F.png

    Taking the best case scenario, we will hit the 260 bed limit on the 1st of April, 500 on the 4th, and 1000 by the 7th.
    Any additional measures we introduce will take at least 7 days to impact case/ICU numbers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Pdoghue


    As I posted the other day watching the PM Questions in the Commons, when it was over a of the MPs including Boris filed out past the speaker together, well less than 2 metres apart.. Makes you wonder..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭NH2013


    Where did I say ban cargo flights? I said ban passenger flights or restrict to an amount of people who can be quarantined on arrival.

    Passenger flights are cargo flights, there's almost no dedicated cargo aircraft relative to passenger aircraft.

    Even the aircraft being sent to China to pick up the PPE are the massive passenger aircraft normally used across the atlantic. Almost all of our air freight and cargo needs as a country are flown in the holds of passenger flights.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,206 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    UK


    + 2921 new cases (14,579 total)

    + 181 new deaths (759 total)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    timhenn wrote: »
    Poland has a population of over 36 million! I think it's you who lacks knowledge on statistics.

    Nope. We could still make comparisons with Poland or Wuhan or anywhere as long as we did it on a per capita basis.

    There’s no particular reason to only compare with countries that have the same population as ours.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    We are a few weeks away from having to decide who gets ventilators as is. Some counties have only one or two ventilators.

    There's a doctor in America who was able to place a few people with similar lung capacities on the same ventilator. Can our doctors do something like that here?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    It sounds like a dog's bark. Not sure which type of dog though.
    Is it like a happy to see you dog's bark or more of an angry growly thing:confused: Or even a howl like when you play on a tinwhistle or flute and your dog is listening...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Nope. We could still make comparisons with Poland or Wuhan or anywhere as long as we did it on a per capita basis.

    There’s no particular reason to only compare with countries that have the same population as ours.

    Yeah and we don't compare well with most. It's pretty simple stuff.


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


    scamalert wrote: »
    a month from now government will pull the plug and we will be back to whatever is normal, virus or not people need to eat and pay bills, and welfare wont do that forever.

    You're post is closer to the truth than people want to believe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    timhenn wrote: »
    What's your problem?

    This is about the number of deaths in Ireland. You know, actual people dying? Do you see a positive side to that?

    My problem is that you continuously harping on about how it's not good - what about all the posters who have elderly parents/grandparents, or relatives in high risk categories, do you think they want to read your posts constantly implying we're ****ed???

    What about the posters whose love ones are in nursing home, or in hospitals or living alone. What about posters whose spouse/children work in these healthcare places - your posts are just going to make them anxious.

    In a world where you can be anything be considerate of others - especially when posting on public forms.


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


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Nope. We could still make comparisons with Poland or Wuhan or anywhere as long as we did it on a per capita basis.

    There’s no particular reason to only compare with countries that have the same population as ours.

    Poland are only testing thoes who end up in hospital,source polish midea


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    timhenn wrote: »
    Comparing the death rates is not impossible.
    Thanks, you're quite correct.

    It was rather careless phraseology on my part, equating 'virtually impossible' with 'virtually meaningless'. Have edited accordingly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    josip wrote: »
    I'd like if someone can review my methodology for the graph below please?
    I took the HSE numbers for ICU beds over the past week.
    There's a 2 day lag in those numbers according to them

    17/03/2020 7
    18/03/2020 12
    19/03/2020 13
    20/03/2020 17
    21/03/2020 25
    22/03/2020 36
    23/03/2020 39
    24/03/2020 47

    I calculated the day on day %age increase and then the 3 day moving average for those.
    I then graphed the best case increase (24%) in yellow and worst case (41%) blue day on day projections for ICU bed numbers.
    (Ignore the orange bit at the start of the graph, I'm not great with Excel)

    mb2erQV.png

    Taking the best case scenario, we will hit the 260 bed limit on the 1st of April, 500 on the 4th and 1000 by the 7th.
    Any additional measures we introduce will take at least 7 days to impact case/ICU numbers.

    They are saying 500 in the system, but even that sounds optimistic. We also need ventilators and more importantly trained staff. 500 is likely our ICU limit and after that doctors deciding on who lives and who dies. When that happens, deaths unfortunately rocket.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    SF1918.jpg


    This is the profile of worldwide deaths from the 1918 flu.


    The first wave happened in July 1918



    the second wave went like this.

    on 3rd Nov 1918 - about 2 per thousand
    on the 10th Nov 1918 about 6 per thousand
    on the 16th Nov 1918 about 25 per thousand
    on 11th Jan 1919 finished


    The people relaxed and a third wave hit but not as bad as the second.



    This is what exponential growth looks like and they were basically following a "Herd Immunity" approach cos they knew no better.


    A century later we have a much better understanding.


    Bad and all as the numbers from Italy and Spain are they seem to be holding steady (Italy 650 ish per day - Spain -700 ish per day.


    Appalling but not exponential - Early days but it looks like the curve flattening approach may be working.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    If everybody gets this as is now looking more likely by the day! How many deaths are likely before a vaccine !

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



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