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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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  • #9362
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    wakka12 wrote: »
    I think France just updates once a day? If so, also a big drop there like in Italy. Just 2600 new cases vs 4000 yesterday. Deaths are similar though at nearly 300.

    I only read on deaths now. I don’t think test confirmation is important anymore as different counties have different procedures on testing requirements


  • #9363
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    We are about 5-7 days behind on results, the counts being given are not live data. Take from that what you will

    Do you have a credible source for that 5-7 day claim?


  • #9364
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    We are about 5-7 days behind on results, the counts being given are not live data. Take from that what you will

    Well, things were a lot more open 7 days ago. Nobody is mixing anymore. I think we can be cautiously optimistic at the numbers.


  • #9365
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It seems that for every day thing look a small bit better, sadly not in terms of deaths, there is one more thing to find fault with. I think it is looking increasingly likely we will not become Italy or Spain or Britain.

    The problem is if we relax the sanctions it could take off like a rocket imagine trying to shut the country down a 2nd time when people would see the 1st time as an over reaction businesses will have had enough


  • #9366
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    Refractions wrote: »
    Probably dropping due to the weekend. Think last weekend was the same and then we saw a jump on the Monday. Stand to be corrected on that.

    Lab testing is carried out 24/7. There isn't a reduced service for Covid testing at weekends.


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  • #9367
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Well, things were a lot more open 7 days ago. Nobody is mixing anymore. I think we can be cautiously optimistic at the numbers.

    Agree. Given the obvious lag, I am very cautiously optimistic.


  • #9368
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,414 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It seems that for every day thing look a small bit better, sadly not in terms of deaths, there is one more thing to find fault with. I think it is looking increasingly likely we will not become Italy or Spain or Britain.

    If we get the numbers consistently down, we might be one of the first countries in Europe to get back out of the lockdown (in a few weeks time).


  • #9369
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It seems that for every day thing look a small bit better, sadly not in terms of deaths, there is one more thing to find fault with. I think it is looking increasingly likely we will not become Italy or Spain or Britain.

    Here’s hoping, hopefully being less densely populated, no underground etc will stand to us. Really feel majority are adhering to it, bar the usual scrotes and morons.


  • #9370
    Urethral Buttercup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Urethral Buttercup


    awec wrote: »
    “Why didn’t we just shut the whole country down for months on end?!?”

    “I saw someone outside, this lockdown is a total disaster, Irish people don’t get it”

    It’s beyond tiring at this stage. Trying to read objective discussion on the numbers and you have to wade through page after page of absolute nonsense from these posters.

    These threads are embarrassing. Full of saddos and ghouls, peering out from behind their blinds for weeks, full of feelings of righteousness and fantasies of lockdowns and punishment beatings. This crisis is their moment to shine, and they know it.


  • #9371
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    frillyleaf wrote: »
    I only read on deaths now. I don’t think test confirmation is important anymore as different counties have different procedures on testing requirements

    Test confirmation is more important for contact tracing than anything else.


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  • #9372
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,414 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    cosanostra wrote: »
    The problem is if we relax the sanctions it could take off like a rocket imagine trying to shut the country down a 2nd time when people would see the 1st time as an over reaction businesses will have had enough

    They wouldn't lift the restrictions until new cases were down to a trickle or none - but that scenario will happen in time, hopefully before the start of June.


  • #9373
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭threeball


    Fcuk me. Page after page of the same sh1te. How many are we testing, why wasn't I tested, we're not testing enough, they changed the test. Over and over ad nauseam. If it bothers you that much ring the HSE or write Harris a strongly worded email rather than filling up a thread that has some great information sprinkled in between the reams of bollox


  • #9374
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide, as of 29 March 2020

    novel-coronavirus-cases-worldwide-29-march-2020.png?itok=0Vs5AQE2

    The early China curve looks small now as the daily number of cases continue to increase in the rest of the world.


  • #9375
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,035 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Martina1991 wrote: »
    Lab testing is carried out 24/7. There isn't a reduced service for Covid testing at weekends.

    Where they they get all the extra trained experienced lab analysts from? This is a genuine question, how many did they hire?


  • #9376
    coastwatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    If so that is better. Have you a link to that?


    Here's a link for you,

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/coronavirus-ten-more-deaths-confirmed-in-republic-1.4215029

    More than 33,000 people have been tested since March 16th.


  • #9377
    Lucille Screeching Spout
    Posts: 0 ✭ Lucille Screeching Spout


    awec wrote: »
    “Why didn’t we just shut the whole country down for months on end?!?”

    “I saw someone outside, this lockdown is a total disaster, Irish people don’t get it”

    It’s beyond tiring at this stage. Trying to read objective discussion on the numbers and you have to wade through page after page of absolute nonsense from these posters.

    Spot on, this and your previous post. This thread is a dumpster fire. A load of keyboard warriors who think they could do better. How delusional can you get?


  • #9378
    joe_99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭joe_99


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    I wish those reporters on RTE would stop saying each day that half the the people were over or younger than the average age of death. They seem to think that half the values in a range have to be above the average and half below. It means no such thing.

    That's not what they said. Median


  • #9379
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    RurtBeynolds wrote: »
    Could be 400 tomorrow, far too early to tell.

    Could be 10 tomorrow, far too early to tell.


  • #9380
    blackcard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,336 ✭✭✭blackcard


    jackboy wrote: »
    Where they they get all the extra trained experienced lab analysts from? This is a genuine question, how many did they hire?

    There are numerous labs who do water quality, air quality, material testing etc. These would have trained technicians working for them. The HSE have a huge amount of companies assisting them in the current crisis.


  • #9381
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    frillyleaf wrote: »
    US is an epicentre

    Is it? Its no more of an epicentre than Ireland is right now.

    Deaths per million:
    Ireland - 9
    USA - 7

    The USA obviously has 66 times the population of Ireland. But relatively speaking the USA is doing better than most European countries.

    If you said New York was an epicentre that would be different.


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  • #9382
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Bruno Magnificent Lodge wrote: »
    Spot on, this and your previous post. This thread is a dumpster fire. A load of keyboard warriors who think they could do better. How delusional can you get?

    The 'powers that be' shills are getting very rude again !

    Everyone is entitled to their opinion.


  • #9383
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,227 ✭✭✭Genghis


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    We are about 5-7 days behind on results, the counts being given are not live data. Take from that what you will

    I dont think that's the case, yes there is a lag but day or two I would have guessed. Open to correction.

    Whatever the lag, the trend is positive and indicates our measures are working.


  • #9384
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,035 ✭✭✭jackboy


    blackcard wrote: »
    There are numerous labs who do water quality, air quality, material testing etc. These would have trained technicians working for them. The HSE have a huge amount of companies assisting them in the current crisis.

    Totally different testing. They wouldn’t be able to test the samples for the virus. Those labs wouldn’t have the right instruments either.


  • #9385
    schmoo2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭schmoo2k


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    Is it? Its no more of an epicentre than Ireland is right now.

    Deaths per million:
    Ireland - 9
    USA - 7

    The USA obviously has 66 times the population of Ireland. But relatively speaking the USA is doing better than most European countries.

    I think epicentre is calculated on total number of cases only.

    Also note that USA are about two weeks behind Ireland (in the same way we are a couple of weeks behind Italy)...


  • #9386
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,441 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Discovery channel @8pm. Pandemic :COVID 19


  • #9387
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Fair play to RTE, they're doing their best to cheer us up. An hour long episode of Fair City at 7.30 :D


  • #9388
    merikahan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭merikahan


    Teenagers, god bless them: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/coronavirus-man-who-allegedly-spat-at-garda-brought-to-court-by-garda%C3%AD-in-protective-gear-1.4215008


  • #9389
    crossman47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭crossman47


    Talisman wrote: »
    Correction: "around 5,000 people a day".

    The HSE are very fond of rounding up positive numbers and reducing negative numbers.

    5,000 is a nice headline number but it's meaningless.

    They have tested 33,000 in about 13 days so, allowing for a slow start, they must be at 5000 now.


  • #9390
    Marsden35
    Site Banned Posts: 93 ✭✭Marsden35


    Bruno Magnificent Lodge wrote: »
    Spot on, this and your previous post. This thread is a dumpster fire. A load of keyboard warriors who think they could do better. How delusional can you get?

    Everyone is an expert on Corona. It's just one of these topics everyone has a view on and regurgitate half stories they heard on the news or through gossip.

    I told my dad studies had shown that Corona can sit in the air for up to three hours.

    I then heard him on the phone to my uncle telling him that someone could cough in another city and because it can last in the air for 3 hours, a breeze could carry it over and you could get infected just sitting in your garden. :rolleyes:


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  • #9391
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    If that is for real they should be immediately closed again by any means necessary. A military strike if needs be.

    Just watching a programme about Asian pangolins being driven to the edge of extinction because of the Chinese demand for them, going forward I think the Chinese are going to have to make a lot of lifestyle changes.


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