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Covid19 Part XV - 15,251 in ROI (610 deaths) 2,645 in NI (194 deaths) (19/04) Read OP

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  • #3692
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,499 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    WWE an "essential business" in Florida:pac:

    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1249980624745779200


  • #3693
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    iguana wrote: »
    Football matches behind closed doors make sense as the majority of football supporters aren't actually at the match but watching on tv. And the clubs/league/etc still make money from selling the tv rights. But the majority of revenue from concerts must surely be made from actual ticket sales. So I'm not entirely sure what the point would be in having a behind closed doors concert. Yes, you could do it on tv/online as a type of pay per view but imo, that's not comparable to watching sports on tv.

    That was kind of my point. Why would you pay to watch a concert with no audience when you can watch music for free on youtube!


  • #3694
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    46.6% of all deaths in London last week were registered with COVID 19 as a contributing cause of death

    Across the UK as a whole 21% of all deaths listed COVID as main or contributing COD
    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-one-in-10-virus-deaths-taking-place-outside-hospitals-ons-11973059

    The Office for National Statistics reported the highest number of deaths ever recorded in England and Wales last week from all causes, though this database only began in 2005.


  • #3695
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    Peanut Butter Jelly wrote: »
    In this instance, they meant holding their tongue in terms of not making a big deal of waiting for test results and her using her public position to get them fast tracked. In general I'd agree with your sentiment but in this case it was the right thing to do


    Ah, fair enough if I got the wrong end of the stick. It was the statement about 'holding her tongue' and political point scoring that made me think otherwise.


  • #3696
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,175 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    fin12 wrote: »
    Father pleading on 96fm now for Simon Harris to reply to his emails regarding how his disabled son will be treated if he was to contract the virus.

    Simon Harris pure disgrace, answers twitter emails about a f*cking Easter bunny but can’t get in contact with this man.


    his child won't be treated by Simon Harris


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  • #3697
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭touts


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Mary Lou was tested the 28th of March and got her results yesterday the 14th of April.

    Ffs.

    Are we still basing that on the Sinn Fein statement or has it been independently verified. Not that I'm saying SF would be a little loose with the facts to profit politically in a crisis but.....


  • #3698
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,040 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    fin12 wrote: »
    Father pleading on 96fm now for Simon Harris to reply to his emails regarding how his disabled son will be treated if he was to contract the virus.

    Simon Harris pure disgrace, answers twitter emails about a f*cking Easter bunny but can’t get in contact with this man.

    He will be treated the same as everyone else if there is a bed, if there were no beds in ICU then maybe a doctor would make a decision. It's not for Simon Harris to say one way or the other what would happen in that situation.


  • #3699
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,040 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    touts wrote: »
    Are we still basing that on the Sinn Fein statement or has it been independently verified. Not that I'm saying SF would be a little loose with the facts to profit politically in a crisis but.....

    How is something that is private and confidentially going to be independently verified?


  • #3700
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,175 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    That’s mental. If I remember her kid went to school in glasnevin with one of the first cases in the country.

    At the time the family of people who were potentially in contact with a positive case were told to continue as normal with work and school etc.

    Fair play to her for isolating if her own accord. God knows how many cases that advice directly caused.
    that was march 1st a long time ago. 6 weeks


  • #3701
    New Home
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    expectationlost wrote: »
    his child won't be treated by Simon Harris

    Call me cynical, but if I were to guess, if his child were to need an ICU bed, he probably wouldn't get one.


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  • #3702
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    expectationlost wrote: »
    that was march 1st a long time ago. 6 weeks

    5 - 11 day incubation. Could be third order infection. The test took two weeks to come back. Entirely plausible and in fact probable.

    Kid gets it +5 days min
    Dad gets it + 5 days min
    She gets it + 5 days
    Symptoms -> test ?
    Tests +14 days test result.

    ~80% of transmission occurs in households.

    https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

    509533.png


  • #3703
    Christy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭Christy42


    New Home wrote: »
    Call me cynical, but if I were to guess, if his child were to need an ICU bed, he probably wouldn't get one.
    What. We would leave it empty for the sake of it?

    We aren't at capacity yet. Why deny someone a bed?


  • #3704
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Christy42 wrote: »
    What. We would leave it empty for the sake of it?

    We aren't at capacity yet. Why deny someone a bed?

    Ask the nursing homes and the guidance they received. Treatment in situ for most it looks like. (Speculation)


  • #3705
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    fin12 wrote: »
    Father pleading on 96fm now for Simon Harris to reply to his emails regarding how his disabled son will be treated if he was to contract the virus.

    Simon Harris pure disgrace, answers twitter emails about a f*cking Easter bunny but can’t get in contact with this man.
    Sounds like that father is sending emails to completely the wrong person. HSE or HSE live would be a better port of call.


  • #3706
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Wow you don't agree with someone and can't be arsed developing a retort or argument so just come out with this BS.

    Silly carry.

    You said people will be disappointed when we get a vaccine, no retort is needed as it's a ridiculous statement and you know it.


  • #3707
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    You said people will be disappointed when we get a vaccine, no retort is needed as it's a ridiculous statement and you know it.

    Anit vaccers will.


  • #3708
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    We can all write an e-mail asking how our own children will be treated if (s)he gets coronavirus. It's a bloody ridiculous thing to expect him to be able to answer without knowing the when or the other circumstances around hospital capacity/availability at that time!


  • #3709
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Ask the nursing homes and the guidance they received. Treatment in situ for most it looks like. (Speculation)
    According to Henry the call is made based on the individual and what would be best for them in terms of care.


  • #3710
    Iamabeliever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 464 ✭✭Iamabeliever


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    5 - 11 day incubation. Could be third order infection. The test took two weeks to come back. Entirely plausible and in fact probable.

    Kid gets it +5 days min
    Dad gets it + 5 days min
    She gets it + 5 days
    Symptoms -> test ?
    Tests +14 days test result.

    ~80% of transmission occurs in households.

    https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

    509533.png

    Could she not have picked it up in Tesco's?


  • #3711
    hawkelady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭hawkelady


    polesheep wrote: »
    She's working long shifts but the same number of hours per week. There is no shortage of PPE at the moment. No nurse is required to work extra hours at the moment.
    Bull**** .. yes they are , in Dublin hospitals anyway. Fact , so wind your neck in


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  • #3712
    Christy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭Christy42


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Ask the nursing homes and the guidance they received. Treatment in situ for most it looks like. (Speculation)

    Is the kid in a nursing home? There are issues with bringing frail people into a room full of sick people at the best of times. We don't know the full details of this kids situation and neither does Harris. Without that no one can say what the best course of action is.

    This is making a molehill out of entirely flat ground.


  • #3713
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    wakka12 wrote: »
    46.6% of all deaths in London last week were registered with COVID 19 as a contributing cause of death

    Across the UK as a whole 21% of all deaths listed COVID as main or contributing COD
    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-one-in-10-virus-deaths-taking-place-outside-hospitals-ons-11973059

    The Office for National Statistics reported the highest number of deaths ever recorded in England and Wales last week from all causes, though this database only began in 2005.

    I know someone in their late 30s on a ventilator with covid in London currently. Non-smoker, no underlying conditions. Public-facing job. Dose seems to be important.


  • #3714
    theballz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭theballz


    Hi,

    I got tested the weekend (Saturday,) it was fairly unclear in terms of next steps. They just said the HSE will contact me with results, I know their is a backlog and I am not expecting to hear from them before the end of this week at the earliest, however, I am keen to hear from someone who has tested positive.

    What are the next steps?
    How did they contact you? Phone or text?
    Was it a doctor, nurse etc?

    Any help greatly appreciated


  • #3715
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    is_that_so wrote: »
    According to Henry the call is made based on the individual and what would be best for them in terms of care.

    Maybe so. At least they now have oxygen.
    https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/1249698917937266695?s=20


  • #3716
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,713 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Anyone been following Trump’s latest briefings?

    What in god’s name is going on with the man?

    It’s so so bad. You’re watching it and thinking this has to be some sort of hoax. Nobody can be this ridiculous...

    What I cannot understand is how no journalist has yet stood up and said in a firm way, “wtf are you on? Get the hell off that stage..“

    I cannot imagine any European country, and particularly us or the UK allowing his utter rantings and Sh1t go unchallenged..


  • #3717
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    walshb wrote: »
    Anyone been following Trump’s latest briefings?

    What in god’s name is going on with the man?

    It’s so so bad. You’re watching it and thinking this has to be some sort of hoax. Nobody can be this ridiculous...

    What I cannot understand is how no journalist has yet stood up and said in a firm way, “wtf are you on? Get the hell off that stage..“

    I cannot imagine any European country, and particularly us or the UK allowing his utter rantings and Sh1t go unchallenged..

    Ohh please, let it wait for the evening hours when Trump takes over this thread :D


  • #3718
    New Home
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    is_that_so wrote: »
    Sounds like that father is sending emails to completely the wrong person. HSE or HSE live would be a better port of call.

    Granted this is now a good few weeks later, but...

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112951945


  • #3719
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    New Home wrote: »
    Granted this is now a good few weeks later, but...

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112951945

    Interesting. You'd like to think they've sharpened up their act since then!


  • #3720
    New Home
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    is_that_so wrote: »
    Interesting. You'd like to think they've sharpened up their act since then!

    There's always hope.


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  • #3721
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Iamabeliever wrote: »
    Could she not have picked it up in Tesco's?

    What does it matter. My point that she self isolated AGAINST the advice was a very prudent decision by her. I'm sure most parents did not take this decision as they were advised to continue as normal. I wonder how many infections / deaths are attributable to that NOW clearly wrong advice. i.e if someone in the household has had contact with a suspected case then family should isolate , not just the person.

    Considering it was in her kids school more likely but yeah everyone is getting it in Tesco. Aldi and supervalue are grand word on the street is. (sarcasm)


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