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

pjohnson · 27-03-2020 09:07PM

Boggles wrote: »

They are bringing back tins of Lilt.

They stopped???

silverharp · 27-03-2020 09:08PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Fox News pushing a dangerous narrative in support of Trump. Nothing new here.

or the solution , this is being done by doctors , ill let them be the judge

NaiveMelodies · 27-03-2020 09:08PM

tom1ie wrote: »

Ok but how many is loads?

Eh it's loads?

SleetAndSnow · 27-03-2020 09:08PM

One of today's deaths was a healthcare worker

Coronavirus: Healthcare worker dies after contracting coronavirus in the Republic (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-healthcare-worker-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus-in-the-republic-1.4213892

Mervyn Skidmore · 27-03-2020 09:09PM

NaiveMelodies wrote: »

Eh it's loads?

More than a few and less than $hitloads.

Spanish Eyes · 27-03-2020 09:09PM

I sure hope the current team Leo, Simon and the doc don't contract the virus. Look at Uk, I'd say it's rampant within Cabinet and the HOC. Started with Nadine Dorries.

Anyway, seeing that the other Simon (Coveney) is not in the picture much at the moment, maybe they have fully prepared for pandemic crisis and have a reserve team ready to step in if necessary.

NOTE... I do not want any of them to contract C19, but it's good to have a backup plan all the same.

hotmail.com · 27-03-2020 09:09PM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

One of today's deaths was a healthcare worker

Coronavirus: Healthcare worker dies after contracting coronavirus in the Republic (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-healthcare-worker-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus-in-the-republic-1.4213892

Terrible news. Are health care workers being tested regularly?

iwillyeah1234 · 27-03-2020 09:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Youre forgetting the key factor though - Americans.

take your anti-American racism elsewhere please.

hotmail.com · 27-03-2020 09:09PM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

One of today's deaths was a healthcare worker

Coronavirus: Healthcare worker dies after contracting coronavirus in the Republic (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-healthcare-worker-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus-in-the-republic-1.4213892

Terrible news. Are health care workers being tested regularly?

otnomart · 27-03-2020 09:09PM

Just Saying wrote: »

At that stage they are projected to be worse off than we are in terms of beds.

Still, the UK has the capacity to create more ICU beds, look at their upcoming NHS Nightingale hospital.
And they have also the industry capacity to produce ventilators, there is a a consortium called Ventilator Challenge UK, involving companies including Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Ford.
They can or soon will deal with their cases, same as France and Italy.

Surely it would be worth having an agreement for the UK to take in some Irish patients ?

Oafley Jones · 27-03-2020 09:10PM

I also want to know about lilt.

Galway20188 · 27-03-2020 09:10PM

I hope the world becomes a better place after this.

I hope we learn to stand together and believe in our leaders.

I hope we become kinder and learn to appreciate the simple things

I’m so sorry to anyone who has been affected health wise or anyone who has lost a loved one, RIP

Wibbs · 27-03-2020 09:10PM

growleaves wrote: »

The very few cases where seemingly fully-healthy people have died from it and have been seized on and trumpeted far and wide, and even then there may be something that was missed or unreported.

and often this is self reported by families not medical staff. And in the US cases anyway quite a few are obese, which if some British figures are anything to go by is a cofactor.

tom1ie · 27-03-2020 09:10PM

NaiveMelodies wrote: »

Eh it's loads?

Yes. How silly of me.

Mental Mickey · 27-03-2020 09:11PM

Strazdas wrote: »

Must mean more restrictions

Only they know what they're going to say......?

rossie1977 · 27-03-2020 09:11PM

marilynrr wrote: »

Completely disagree. A certain % of the population are behaving exactly as they would be if they were in a full on lockdown.
I'm not sure how many that is but I know plenty of people who are at home, with only one household member leaving the house once per week to buy the essentials.

Some people are not everyone. I went shopping on Wednesday and traffic on roads looked pretty normal. Numerous people out walking. Lidl seemed more busy than a normal Wednesday.

shesty wrote: »

Everything is shut.I don't know where you are living but the only things open around me in a fairly wide radius are supermarkets and pharmacies.
Nobody is out and about.

Everything isn't shut here in Roscommon. Post office, banks, independent fast food places, bakeries, farm supplies, veterinaries in my town are all open as well as supermarkets, pharmacies, filling stations. The houses where mentally ill patients spend daylight hours open and operating as usual on my street.

niallo27 wrote: »

How many phases are there. Nearly every retail shop, pubs and restaurants are shut. How the **** do you not think we are not at phase 1.

Based on what happened in China three.

Italy are in phase 1, we are not.

pjohnson · 27-03-2020 09:11PM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

One of today's deaths was a healthcare worker

Coronavirus: Healthcare worker dies after contracting coronavirus in the Republic (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-healthcare-worker-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus-in-the-republic-1.4213892

Fcuk

mick987 · 27-03-2020 09:11PM

The Covid King wrote: »

So the wops don't like it when you call them 'fredo'? Interesting.

Someone getting banned again

Beasty · 27-03-2020 09:12PM

Kerry25x wrote: »

And how on earth would a nurse that works at a hospital know that?

(Speaking as a nurse that works in a hospital myself.)

I know nurses who can gossip as well as anyone.

The danger is people get snippets of gossip and add it all together to get something very different than the facts

In this case though it's very obvious that the "official" figures, certainly in terms of tests and test results, is some way in arrears. That helps fuel such conspiracy theories, as does the fact they are simply not testing enough to properly evaluate the spread across the country. I suspect they have a very good idea of numbers of serious cases (and indeed deaths, although there could be some where cause takes time to be established)

Wibbs · 27-03-2020 09:12PM

Galway20188 wrote: »

I hope the world becomes a better place after this.

I hope we learn to stand together and believe in our leaders.

I hope we become kinder and learn to appreciate the simple things

I’m so sorry to anyone who has been affected health wise or anyone who has lost a loved one, RIP

I'm with you 100% save for the bold part.

iwillyeah1234 · 27-03-2020 09:13PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I sure hope the current team Leo, Simon and the doc don't contract the virus. Look at Uk, I'd say it's rampant within Cabinet and the HOC. Started with Nadine Dorries.

Anyway, seeing that the other Simon (Coveney) is not in the picture much at the moment, maybe they have fully prepared for pandemic crisis and have a reserve team ready to step in if necessary.

NOTE... I do not want any of them to contract C19, but it's good to have a backup plan all the same.

that was one hell of a hammer blow for the British public today - prime minister, health minister AND the chief of the NHS all taken out in one day.

you can't dress this up - it must be rampant in the upper echelons of British government.

Leo and Coveney - but Coveney especially - are way too smart to let that happen to them.

owlbethere · 27-03-2020 09:14PM

racso1975 wrote: »

303 new and 3 dead. Rip

God, ☹️ rip

The new testing guidelines was due to target and catch more people. Still a scary jump all the same. I suppose the Covid-19 getting into nursing homes would probably add to the rise.

otnomart · 27-03-2020 09:14PM

Both Belgium and France have just extended their lockdown till 15 April.
Note: theirs is a strict lockdown same as Spain and Italy: only food shops and chemists are open.