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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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  • #6662
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,060 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    kenmc wrote: »
    Actually the leaving cert ran to 1991 then became junior cert. Don't ask me how I know, right?


    For the pedantics, all State exams going ahead this year according to Leo.


  • #6663
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Happy4all wrote: »
    Heard the old BCG vaccine being tested as a cure


    Pg

    BCG? Is that a vaccine we got when small?


  • #6664
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,086 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    For the pedantics, all State exams going ahead this year according to Leo.

    Well thats unlikely to happen.


  • #6665
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    Over One million mark


  • #6666
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,145 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    s1ippy wrote: »
    Where are you reading that? Also nobody has called it the Inter Cert since the 70s so there goes any credibility you had as an education spokesperson.

    Well, ignoring the nit-picking, Leo did say today that the state examinations will go ahead at this point.
    Does anybody actually watch it listen to the news?


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  • #6667
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    I think the latest bigger numbers are whole family spread within households.

    Is that the big tub of Dairygold? Family Spread


  • #6668
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Now over a million reported cases worldwide.


  • #6669
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,283 ✭✭✭kenmc


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    BCG? Is that a vaccine we got when small?

    Nah was the sequel to Ronald Dahls bfg,the big clumsy giant


  • #6670
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    CitizenFloor wrote: »
    Good to hear that we report deaths when Covid19 is confirmed as present, as opposed to it being the primary cause of death. Strikes me as more transparent, and less susceptible to fudging, in terms of deaths at least.
    Andrew00 wrote: »
    Absolute state of this show that just started on RTE1

    Theres enough carp on about C19 without this and with that smug BC.


  • #6671
    0gac3yjefb5sv7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,947 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    Is there any reason why they don't announce the amount tested daily?

    E.g there could have been 250 people tested yesterday and 210 had it. There could have been 2000 tested today and 400 had it?


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  • #6672
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Now over a million reported cases worldwide.

    The cases numbers are worthless since not everyone can get tested, its inaccurate number that downplays the proper total.

    The deaths are likely to be much more accurate.


  • #6673
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    Just announced on RTE 1 news that De Taoish reckons state exams are still going to happen.

    I am glad my teenager is in TY year - the current situation of all of us cooped up together for 24 hrs with two of us trying to work from home, is not a great environment to be trying to study in. Also they have missed several weeks of school teaching already and are under a kind of stress that no other exam candidates have had to endure in the history of the state.

    How fair is it to put them through an exam in or around an environment of death, job loss, and home confinement? It will be even more cruel to keep the party line going that the exams are continuing only to call them off at the last minute, as I still suspect will happen.

    As I said, I am glad it's not a state exam year for my family.


  • #6674
    MintyMagnum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭MintyMagnum


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    did you not hear, they abolished the Inter course ages ago

    Did you not hear it was called the inter cert


  • #6675
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Pheonix10 wrote: »
    Is there any reason why they don't announce the amount tested daily?

    E.g there could have been 250 people tested yesterday and 210 had it. There could have been 2000 tested today and 400 had it?

    Because we report it weekly. It's just the way the system is set up to feed information back.


  • #6676
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    BCG? Is that a vaccine we got when small?

    Yes


  • #6677
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,856 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Pheonix10 wrote: »
    Is there any reason why they don't announce the amount tested daily?

    E.g there could have been 250 people tested yesterday and 210 had it. There could have been 2000 tested today and 400 had it?

    People being tested yesterday mightn't have their results for a week or two. That's how far behind they are so they can't give accurate figures.


  • #6678
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What's the point of giving the median age? Why not give the average age?

    6 of those people that sadly passed away could be 25 for all we know and another 6 could be 93. Saying the median is 92 makes it seem like only very elderly are dying but actually that may not be the case at all.

    the median is better as it lessens the effect of outliers. for example a single death of a 10 year old would skew the average a lot. not so with the median.


  • #6679
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    MonkieSocks wrote: »
    The British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said they were looking at this type of test.

    He said it takes about 28 days for your body to develop Antibodys.

    Althought FDA has authorized first coronavirus antibody test




    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/02/health/fda-coronavirus-antibody-test-authorization/index.html


    Does it really take that long to develop anti bodies? they must develop much quicker than 28 days.


  • #6680
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Pheonix10 wrote: »
    Is there any reason why they don't announce the amount tested daily?

    E.g there could have been 250 people tested yesterday and 210 had it. There could have been 2000 tested today and 400 had it?

    Don't worry, we'll get an approximate number some day next week


  • #6681
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,456 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Does it really take that long to develop anti bodies? they must develop much quicker than 28 days.

    9 days was mentioned in the Irish govt briefing?


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  • #6682
    Just Saying
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭Just Saying


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    27 deaths today in Florida instead of 209?

    What was the reason for the error? Worldometers spreading fake news?

    Not updated.There are a couple of updates daily from a lot of the US states.


  • #6683
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    We are the 124th most populous country in the world. We are 22nd in number of coronavirus cases.


  • #6684
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    splashuum wrote: »
    2015 article where a virology lab in Wuhan was testing a "bat" based coronavirus

    https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?fbclid=IwAR28hFcpP6l-2SkWh8CPUj5UT9yZQqU7aEgzJvtC4ksnZkRYNS3oWd0dw2g#/ref-link-2


    2015 tweet stating the same https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/666158895149264897?fbclid=IwAR3L3h2QjUjBEW7-PlsfO7cHFVoWi2ZjbNhbHS12WENdBntHS8fc-07oUmQ
    Jesus wept.

    From the 2015 report:
    An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.

    This warning came in 2015.
    The Chinese government have some explaining to do.


  • #6685
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ger Roe wrote: »
    Just announced on RTE 1 news that De Taoish reckons state exams are still going to happen.

    I am glad my teenager is in TY year - the current situation of all of us cooped up together for 24 hrs with two of us trying to work from home, is not a great environment to be trying to study in. Also they have missed several weeks of school teaching already and are under a kind of stress that no other exam candidates have had to endure in the history of the state.

    How fair is it to put them through an exam in or around an environment of death, job loss, and home confinement? It will be even more cruel to keep the party line going that the exams are continuing only to call them off at the last minute, as I still suspect will happen.

    As I said, I am glad it's not a state exam year for my family.

    He has to say that, even if they are not. Otherwise everyone just stops doing any study for the rest of the year.


  • #6686
    IrishHomer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,056 ✭✭✭IrishHomer


    Just thinking as I watched the daily media news update on COVD on RTE.

    The numbers of new cases are two weeks old!

    I'm waiting 11 days on test results


  • #6687
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,640 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    eagle eye wrote: »
    We are the 124th most populous country in the world. We are 22nd in number of coronavirus cases.

    punching above our weight, best fans in the world


  • #6688
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    eagle eye wrote: »
    We are the 124th most populous country in the world. We are 22nd in number of coronavirus cases.

    But most of the counties more populous than us are not recording accurate / any figures. Either by design, or that they have no idea of them


  • #6689
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    eagle eye wrote: »
    We are the 124th most populous country in the world. We are 22nd in number of coronavirus cases.

    Could back up what the CMO has repeatedly said. We are doing more testing than a lot of countries


  • #6690
    Bowlardo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    punching above our weight, best fans in the world

    Ah but you have to factor in we love to travel


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  • #6691
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Kivaro wrote: »
    Jesus wept.

    From the 2015 report:
    An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.

    This warning came in 2015.
    The Chinese government have some explaining to do.


    Update of the report.


    "Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus"


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