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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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  • #3182
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭threeball


    kilkenny31 wrote: »
    Yes but 1000 deaths would still make it no worse than a bad flu season here.

    True but it would be alot worse without the precautions so you can't compare one with the other. If we implemented the same measures for flu that would probably go down to 100.


  • #3183
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    iwillyeah1234 wrote: »
    hopkins now at 566,000
    https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

    is it just me, or is the case rate accelerating?

    It most definitely is, exponentially.


  • #3184
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    iwillyeah1234 wrote: »
    hopkins now at 566,000
    https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

    is it just me, or is the case rate accelerating?

    Absolutely, only way it was ever going to go - exponential growth


  • #3185
    OneColdHand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭OneColdHand


    This is great. Scientists, engineers and clinicians at the University of Toronto have developed a heat map which allows the public to see, in real time, potential and confirmed cases of COVID-19. Canada only, but presumably could be developed for worldwide use.

    https://flatten.ca/


  • #3186
    autumnbelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭autumnbelle


    Leo saying he expects the beds to be full in the next few days is grim, do they not have 500 beds? That’s an unreal increase from the 54 stated


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  • #3187
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    It most definitely it, exponentially.

    good lord.

    yes, i did check Hopkins earlier this afternoon - it was at 537k, and just did a refresh a few minutes ago , to get the new 566k figure.

    when did Hopkins breach the 500k mark? wasn't that only yesterday?


  • #3188
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    threeball wrote: »
    True but it would be alot worse without the precautions so you can't compare one with the other. If we implemented the same measures for flu that would probably go down to 100.
    You'd need a vaccine for that.


  • #3189
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭threeball


    iwillyeah1234 wrote: »
    hopkins now at 566,000
    https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

    is it just me, or is the case rate accelerating?

    You've seen nothing yet. It hasn't even hit the poor nations.


  • #3190
    timhenn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    Well that's my point. How can you say they've been successful when we're both in the middle or beginning of the crisis?

    I didn't say that! A poster made a claim and I showed that his claim was false.


  • #3191
    Jayzee.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭Jayzee.


    Seen someone i know being accused of being a super-spreader

    Apparently he was moving around among people , sign of the times I guess


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  • #3192
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    No sex now!
    In other news, it emerges a global shortage in condoms is looming due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s biggest producer warns.

    Karex Bhd, which makes one in every five condoms globally, has not produced a single condom in its three Malaysian factories for more than a week because of a lockdown imposed by the government to halt the spread of the virus, Reuters reports.


  • #3193
    Valhallapt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Valhallapt


    Have we locations mapped out for our own nightingale hospitals?

    I’ve heard of some step down facilities being readied


  • #3194
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,517 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/1243494193630191618
    Stay the F#CK at home!!!

    While sitting in a car....


  • #3195
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,089 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    threeball wrote: »
    1000 deaths here would make us worse than Italy pro-rata. I'd be very surprised if that figure is realised.

    Why? We copied all of Italy's mistakes at the start? Then managed to immediately fail at trying to replicate South Korea and now are just crossing our fingers that it eventually goes away.


  • #3196
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,939 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    threeball wrote: »
    You've seen nothing yet. It hasn't even hit the poor nations.

    The problem with poor nations is we may never know what happens in those countries.


  • #3197
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    In Leos speech on on Patricks day he predicted it to go up 30% a day and there to be 15 000 cases by the 1str of April , Currently that curve is being flattened ,

    its inevitable there will be a spike at some time and there will be huge problems for a week possible two , but at the moment we are on route to make sure them two weeks don't get as bad as Italy ,

    But yes it will get bad and yes we will lose loved ones but currently its looking like not as many as first predicted , it'll still be horrific
    If we had been able to do all the tests and get all the results back I would suspect we would have more than 15,000 confirmed cases by the end of the month

    40,000+ test backlog was abandoned. It is still taking a few days for test results to come through. The curve we are seeing now reflects what was happening about 10 days ago in Ireland


  • #3198
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    kilkenny31 wrote: »
    Yes but 1000 deaths would still make it no worse than a bad flu season here.

    You are missing the point or just trolling.

    All the flu deaths do not show up at once and the hospitals are (almost) able to cope with the annual flu epidemic normally.

    This virus is causing mayhem in the health services everywhere when the exponential infection rate happens.


  • #3199
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,089 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    autumnbelle wrote: »
    Leo saying he expects the beds to be full in the next few days is grim, do they not have 500 beds? That’s an unreal increase from the 54 stated

    I assume like with test promise he made that the extra beds likely didn't happen either.


    "The speech" was basically a load of bull that was complete lies/cluelessness.


  • #3200
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    gmisk wrote: »
    Stay the F#CK at home!!!

    While sitting in a car....
    Probably couldn't suffer him in the house.


  • #3201
    kilkenny31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kilkenny31


    threeball wrote: »
    True but it would be alot worse without the precautions so you can't compare one with the other. If we implemented the same measures for flu that would probably go down to 100.


    Not quiet. Remember most vulnerable people are vaccinated against the flu so it is possible to compare one with the other. There has to be a point where we say that shutting down the country indefinitely not wise. We should be constatly re-assessing the risk. You have to remember to date our Social Distancing is only starting to become a factor in out numbers. Our numbers to date haven't been overly alarming.


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  • #3202
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    UK government has started to add daily totals ( in red) below the cumultative totals

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


  • #3203
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    A PRISON officer has been suspended with immediate effect after it was discovered that between 220 and 250 units of Irish Prison Service owned personal protective equipment (PPE) have gone missing.

    The officer, picked up a shipment of the vital PPE, including protective face masks, at a prison earlier this week.

    The shipment was destined for drop off at a number of prisons later on the same day.


  • #3204
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    pjohnson wrote: »
    I assume like with test promise he made that the extra beds likely didn't happen either.


    "The speech" was basically a load of bull.

    The 500 is including the extra beds I thought


  • #3205
    kilkenny31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kilkenny31


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    You are missing the point or just trolling.

    All the flu deaths do not show up at once and the hospitals are (almost) able to cope with the annual flu epidemic normally.

    This virus is causing mayhem in the health services everywhere when the exponential infection rate happens.


    But were not able to cope with the annual flu epidemic.
    That's why every year we have a trolly crisis. But we still don't stop the country for it. I'm not trolling nor am I saying that significant restrictions arent needed but our measures have went to far. Shut down too much of the country especially given the fact that our numbers were close to manageable without any measures.


  • #3206
    retro:electro
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/1243494193630191618

    I can’t be the only one who doesn’t find that remotely funny. He sounds fcuking unhinged


  • #3207
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    How true is this timeline? A week of symptoms means you have to go to hospital?


  • #3208
    Logan Roy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Logan Roy


    kilkenny31 wrote: »
    But were not able to cope with the annual flu epidemic.
    That's why every year we have a trolly crisis. But we still don't stop the country for it. I'm not trolling nor am I saying that significant restrictions arent needed but our measures have went to far. Shut down too much of the country especially given the fact that our numbers were close to manageable without any measures.

    Wtf. Do you really not get it?


  • #3209
    gormdubhgorm
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    DOCARCH wrote: »
    The problem with poor nations is we may never know what happens in those countries.

    The irony is in Sierra Leonne and New Guinea dealt far more effectively with a far more serious threat in Ebola, than the so called developed countries are dealing with the corona virus.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #3210
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


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  • #3211
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm jealous of Ireland in a way. I haven't worked since January because of this and the city is only closing down now today. At least in Ireland, things were normal for a lot longer and then it all changed very quickly.


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