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CoVid19 Part XII - 4,604 in ROI (137 deaths) 998 in NI (56 deaths)(04/04) **Read OP**

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    What are the figures for every country?


    No just some of the comparable countries in Europe? The HSE said they were testing 5000 now we know the real figure and its disappointing. The say they want to test 10000 to 15000 so they have shortfall of 8500 to 13500 on what they want to test.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,682 ✭✭✭Talisman


    bekker wrote: »
    There does not seem to be any separation of COVID-19 infected patients from non-COVID-19 patients in ICUs and HDUs in Ireland is that correct?

    Can't find any information available on physically separate units, all appear to be accommodated within existing structures.

    This could become crucial going forward.
    The figure is less than 50% for isolation units. You may not find exact numbers but the best place to look is the annual report for critical care capacity in the HSE.

    https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/cspd/ncps/critical-care/critical-care-capacity-planning/national-adult-critical-care-capacity-census-2019-report.pdf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Just heard on the radio we have a worse death rate per capita than the UK. Can't be accurate surely.

    UK has nearly twice as many deaths per capita compared to Ireland, according to worldometers

    Surprisingly Belgium and Netherlands now join third place for highest numbers of deaths per capita after Italy and Spain, though they are still very very far behind these two countries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,060 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    A doctor in the clinic I work in is still waiting for results too. She’s out since March 11th. Feels fine now, but can’t return to work until she gets the result, it’s an absolute farce.

    He said the same, 'feel grand now, and if there was anything wrong I would've heard by now. '


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dayor Knight


    wonski wrote: »
    100's people around me are not bothering.

    I don't know where people see compliance...

    Again, I'd love to know where you're talking about.....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Leo wanted out the day before we closed schools and this **** show started.

    This is far from a pr exercise.

    The “ramping up of tests” etc was a PR exercise. The “we have plenty of PPE” was a PR exercise.
    The bullshyte about getting to “15,000 tests a day” was a PR exercise.

    All we are getting from Simple Simon and Varadkardashian is spin and PR bluster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,321 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    OUTOFSYNC wrote: »
    99 deaths for population of 6.6 million ( on island). I'd prefer if that death rate was lower.

    ....ya don't say? Jesus:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    ooter wrote: »
    Ireland have has identified more cases per 1m of population than the UK, not deaths.

    FYP

    The raw number of cases published is the number identified through testing. Country to country comparisons, where different volumes of tests are being carried out and with different mythologies and selection criteria are fairly meaningless.

    The total number of cases in most countries, bar perhaps Iceland, is unknown. The capacity to test whole populations or do routine sampling is still missing.


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


    ooter wrote: »
    Ireland have more cases per 1m of population than the UK, not deaths.

    I think if we are the UK we would have 44,000 cases. I could be wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    No. Covid-19 can trigger a cykotine attack. It's the immune system spiralling out of control and attacking the lungs and other organs.

    I'm not familiar with a cykotine attack.

    I get the flu injection every year. This years years flu injection was a particularly tough one. There was definitely a sharper pinch with it. I had to go back to the doctor a week later for something else and my arm was still slightly tender with a red circle mark around the injection site. My doctor said something like it's a sign my body took it well or something amount the immune system. I can't remember.

    Would I be prone for a cykotine attack if I was to contract this infection?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,131 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    The “ramping up of tests” etc was a PR exercise. The “we have plenty of PPE” was a PR exercise.
    The bullshyte about getting to “15,000 tests a day” was a PR exercise.

    All we are getting from Simple Simon and Varadkardashian is spin and PR bluster.

    Varakardashian?

    Im out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Dank Janniels


    So much fake news +BS on facebook. Every1 posting about donating baby moniters to hospitals so staff dont need to change scrubs +masks. Any truth to this? Sounds like a direlection of duty to me but kinda makes since in avoiding wasting PPE gear.
    Another post goin aroind is a line of coffins in a church but its actualy a pic from the earthquake they had afew yers ago, another tradegy bit not Covid related


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    gabeeg wrote: »
    of course it's part of the ****ing test.
    it's the thing they extract from you in order that they can perform the ****ing test

    but if they neglect to perform the ****ing test, a test has not been completed.

    Thanks for your input, but I can't make this any clearer

    So when they swab x amount then they are testing x amount thanks for that. I agree we have to get the equipment in to get the results out quicker and hopefully they are coming. However your twisting of words just to try and score political points is frankly horrible. Don't forget it our frontline staff doing this have some respect


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭JoChervil


    No, if you're going to die from Covid-19, it is because your immune system overreacts and attacks your organs - primarily your lungs. Unless you have a preexisting condition that's exacerbated by Covid-19 and you die from that.

    Well, in an article in The Lancet analysing 191 cases from Wuhan they claimed it was connected with D-dimers and blood clothing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    sterz wrote: »

    I hope that lid was on tighly but it looked like some sent in the top


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭Just Saying


    brwh11 wrote: »
    It actually means there were approximately 7,000 cases 10-14 days ago because that is the average time from contracting virus to becoming seriously ill and eventually dying.
    Or more like 3,000 assuming a mortality rate of less than 5%.
    Then you can extrapolate over say 10 days from 3,000 cases, at a growth rate of say 15% per day giving you an estimate of today's actual infected cases of 115,000.
    The figures can be played with any way you want, and the calculations are very sensitive to the inputs, but this is a logic I saw very well explained somewhere and it does make sense.
    Essentially what is happening today in terms of deaths and ICU cases is a true reflection of what was happening on the ground 10-14 days ago.


    Depends if the virologist meant 1 death per hundred at the time of contracting the disease or at the time of death.Makes a pretty big difference!!!


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


    owlbethere wrote: »
    I'm not familiar with a cykotine attack.

    I get the flu injection every year. This years years flu injection was a particularly tough one. There was definitely a sharper pinch with it. I had to go back to the doctor a week later for something else and my arm was still slightly tender with a red circle mark around the injection site. My doctor said something like it's a sign my body took it well or something amount the immune system. I can't remember.

    Would I be prone for a cykotine attack if I was to contract this infection?

    Dunno. Depends on how healthy/young you are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,484 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    OUTOFSYNC wrote: »
    99 deaths for population of 6.6 million ( on island). I'd prefer if that death rate was lower.
    So would everyone.... but we can't force Northern Ireland to implement the same policies at the same time as us (although there are meetings going on between ROI and the NI executive).
    Northern Ireland have 28 the ROI have 71.
    So NI disproportionately high to ROI.
    NI testing very few for a long long time as well


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    owlbethere wrote: »
    I'm not familiar with a cykotine attack.

    I get the flu injection every year. This years years flu injection was a particularly tough one. There was definitely a sharper pinch with it. I had to go back to the doctor a week later for something else and my arm was still slightly tender with a red circle mark around the injection site. My doctor said something like it's a sign my body took it well or something amount the immune system. I can't remember.

    Would I be prone for a cykotine attack if I was to contract this infection?

    That's largely to do with poor injection technique / bad luck.
    If you are unlucky enough to get it in the wrong place, as I did one year when a pharmacist managed to inject it subcutaneously instead of intramuscularly and I even bled she was so bad at doing it, then it will hurt quite a lot.

    I was bruised, my arm hurt, I had a mild fever etc.. all down to bad technique.
    I'm not even sure that year's vaccine even worked very well for me due to where it landed.

    Other years, I'd absolutely no problems whatsoever. In fact, with my old GP (retired) you wouldn't even know you had had a flu jab. It was over before you realised he'd even begun.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    OUTOFSYNC wrote: »
    The lack of planning for testing is concerning. Germany started planning in January, rest of world not so proactive.

    There are tonnes of labs and scientists in Ireland. It's a pity we followed global trend.

    What do you think a physicist, or a chemistry lab would have to offer? Specifics equipment and specific analysts are required. Maybe you could train a chemist familiar with NMR in PCR if you had the right equipment available, but it’s not as simple as sending samples to all the laps in the country


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    So when they swab x amount then they are testing x amount thanks for that. I agree we have to get the equipment in to get the results out quicker and hopefully they are coming. However your twisting of words just to try and score political points is frankly horrible. Don't forget it our frontline staff doing this have some respect

    Oh spare me the pious crap.

    This has zero to do with out frontline staff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    So when they swab x amount then they are testing x amount thanks for that. I agree we have to get the equipment in to get the results out quicker and hopefully they are coming. However your twisting of words just to try and score political points is frankly horrible. Don't forget it our frontline staff doing this have some respect

    A swab is a swab. A test is a test. They could swab the entire country, but until the swab is tested it means nothing. It’s a stick with some snot and spit on it.


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


    Im gonna go with yes....i know of no pharma factory with no lab facilities,do you??
    How many pharma labs do you know that has instruments for diagnostic testing?

    Pharma companies would not routinely have DNA extractors or light cyclers to carry out PCR.

    They wouldn't have the reagents either which are now having supllier shortages.

    OUTOFSYNC wrote:
    There are tonnes of labs and scientists in Ireland. It's a pity we followed global trend.
    One size does not fit all.

    A biology grad cannot be a nurse.
    A chemistry grad cannot be a pharmacist
    A physics grad cannot be a radiographer.

    Not all labs or science grads can provide this service.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,869 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Before you report her, if you're living in an owner occupied property she can just boot you out without any notice. Keep that in mind.

    Its illegal to evict someone at the moment.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,066 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    The “ramping up of tests” etc was a PR exercise. The “we have plenty of PPE” was a PR exercise.
    The bullshyte about getting to “15,000 tests a day” was a PR exercise.

    All we are getting from Simple Simon and Varadkardashian is spin and PR bluster.


    The whole thing is black, black I tell ya.


  • Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The “ramping up of tests” etc was a PR exercise. The “we have plenty of PPE” was a PR exercise.
    The bullshyte about getting to “15,000 tests a day” was a PR exercise.

    All we are getting from Simple Simon and Varadkardashian is spin and PR bluster.

    I did have a chuckle at Coveney claiming the credit for bringing back the people from Peru and also helping 13 other European countries at the same time.

    People on his twitter feed were lapping it up and back slapping like crazy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭RogerThis


    Stats per county not adding up to 2677

    Carlow|5|0.10%
    Cavan|24|1.20%
    Clare|40|1.50%
    Cork|238|8.90%
    Donegal|46|1.70%
    Dublin|1487|55.50%
    Galway|86|3.20%
    Kerry|66|2.50%
    Kildare|66|2.50%
    Kilkenny|36|1.30%
    Laois|15|0.60%
    Leitrim|6|0.20%
    Limerick|67|2.50%
    Longford|10|0.40%
    Louth|44|1.60%
    Mayo|36|1.30%
    Meath|54|2%
    Monaghan|13|0.50%
    Offaly|34|1.30%
    Roscommon|10|0.40%
    Sligo|19|0.70%
    Tipperary|71|2.70%
    Waterford|33|1.20%
    Westmeath|77|2.90%
    Wexford|15|0.60%
    Wicklow|73|2.70%
    Total|2671|100.00%


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    I’m sure it will all come out in the 2028 tribunal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭RugbyLad11


    The “ramping up of tests” etc was a PR exercise. The “we have plenty of PPE” was a PR exercise.
    The bullshyte about getting to “15,000 tests a day” was a PR exercise.

    All we are getting from Simple Simon and Varadkardashian is spin and PR bluster.

    Don't forget Leos unrealistic prediction of 15,000 cases by the end of the month.

    I see lots of people celebrating and saying fantastic job by the Government because we didn't hit the 15,000 cases or 30% increase per day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    EPA, Councils, Pharma, Universrsitys. There must be tonnes of labs plus technicians, scientists, chemistry professors available.
    I'd say the only things missing are the testing kits.

    You must think all these places have the highest equipment. What would a University want need of a machine to test viruses. Do you really think these people can just walk in and know how to test for these things, Not all scientist, technicians or professors know everything. Come on use your head


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