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Covid19 Part XVI- 21,983 in ROI (1,339 deaths) 3,881 in NI (404 deaths)(05/05)Read OP

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  • #6422
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,023 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Strazdas wrote: »
    A startling stat from VM's Gavan Reilly

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1255172256835211266

    Looks like the virus had arrived in Ireland long before anyone suspected

    Seems like several countries are revising their dates from when coronavirus was first in the countries.


  • #6423
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    59 is quite a death toll, RIP. It won't be a convenient figure for the "what about meeeee" merchants.


  • #6424
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,605 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    schmoo2k wrote: »
    Whats the % of smokers who are > 75 compared to the whole population?

    These are hospitalised cases being studied though. Most of the over 75s affected don't seem to be getting sent to hospitals, they're catching it in care homes and staying there.


  • #6425
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,042 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    What orifice did you pull that out of?

    Tone it down please. Have a read of gav Reilly’s tweet


  • #6426
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Said it at the time at the start of feb, of the 4 of us in the house, 1 had what seemed like a mild dose of flu, run down and tired with a slight cough while another had chills, headaches, loss of appetite, a cough for about 3 weeks. The cough was by far the worse cough I've ever heard. 1 felt better after about a week and the other roughly 2 weeks.

    Other 2 of us perfectly fine and got nothing.

    Just seems far too coincidental

    And you dont think the hospitals would have been overrun back in january or february if that was the case? That was our seasonal flu and it was a stong 1 it wasnt going round sending high numbers into ICU needing ventilation.


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  • #6427
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,053 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Very little space between CMO and sign language girl.


  • #6428
    lillycakes2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭lillycakes2


    Our figures are not getting any better


  • #6429
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,042 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Very little space between CMO and sign language girl.

    Glad someone else noticed that. I said that the other evening - they need to practice what you preach


  • #6430
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Tone it down please. Have a read of gav Reilly’s tweet

    Tone up your buttocks. Clearly a falsehood that Covid-19 could have been present in Ireland as early as December.


  • #6431
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,124 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Very little space between CMO and sign language girl.

    You must be watching on a 2D tv, looks fine on my 3D tv


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  • #6432
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,042 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    It’s more and more looking as if The bad flue is looking more likely to have been the c 19. Just too many boxes ticked and convenient coincidences


  • #6433
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,523 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Tony’s an awful fidgeter!


  • #6434
    Redo91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭Redo91


    Strazdas wrote: »
    A startling stat from VM's Gavan Reilly

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1255172256835211266

    Looks like the virus had arrived in Ireland long before anyone suspected

    I had a really bad dose at the start of January. Terrible cough and in the evenings/night I would be shivering and dripping with sweat. Was diagnosed as a chest infection. Dr. said there was a dose going around and I was the tail end of it. Definitely remember lots of people being very sick at the end of December/start of January. Probably too early for it to have been Covid-19 but would still make you wonder.


  • #6435
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    lillycakes2 wrote: »
    Our figures are not getting any better

    It is Tuesday, these figure are ok....of course that doesn't hide the horrendous fact for these families

    But the numbers are not bad. That is being disingenious.

    We have 299 cases, which is a very low percentage virus growth.


  • #6436
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,042 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    walshb wrote: »
    Tony’s an awful fidgeter!

    Classic sign of nervous discomfort


  • #6437
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,053 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    fritzelly wrote: »
    You must be watching on a 2D tv, looks fine on my 3D tv

    Oops forgot memo.
    No negativity at all,


  • #6438
    poppers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poppers


    lillycakes2 wrote: »
    Our figures are not getting any better

    Its our lowest number of new cases since 1st apr. Deaths will be a week or two behind before they tail off.


  • #6439
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    lillycakes2 wrote: »
    Our figures are not getting any better

    299 new cases. How is that not getting better?


  • #6440
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    May the 59 people who died rest in peace


  • #6441
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,523 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Classic sign of nervous discomfort

    Sniffling a bit, too he is!!!!


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  • #6442
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Julianna Gorgeous Hydrant wrote: »
    How did you get this so quick?

    RteNewsNow sends an alert of the numbers to my phone between 5.30and 5.50 every evening.


  • #6443
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,605 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    Deleted User wrote: »
    59 is quite a death toll, RIP. It won't be a convenient figure for the "what about meeeee" merchants.

    While tragic, the death figure on a given day is statistically irrelevant. Thousands of people already have it and hundreds of these have / will die. Many of those announced today could be already dead for weeks.

    Two successive days of significant reductions in new infections detected is far more important for gauging how we are doing now.


  • #6444
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,523 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    The journalists’ questions are just so bland!!

    Same old same old..

    Wonder if these daily delivered updates are really necessary?


  • #6445
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,122 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    easypazz wrote: »
    299 new cases. How is that not getting better?

    Because we're testing more and there is a semblance of life and movement going on out there.

    I feel people haven't really grasped that this virus is here for the long run. It's not going to just disappear after a number of weeks. All we're doing in slowing it down as much as possible.


  • #6446
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    It’s more and more looking as if The bad flue is looking more likely to have been the c 19. Just too many boxes ticked and convenient coincidences

    It has been proven that this is not the case, but people keep peddling it.

    They've definitively proved the genetic sequence of Covid 19 is not the same as the dose that was going around last Winter. They are different illnesses.


  • #6447
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,122 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    2ndcoming wrote: »
    While tragic, the death figure on a given day is statistically irrelevant. Thousands of people already have it and hundreds of these have / will die. Many of those announced today could be already dead for weeks.

    Two successive days of significant reductions in new infections detected is far more important for gauging how we are doing now.

    Indeed, and the measure used for decisions on easing restrictions is hospital admissions and ICU cases rather than a blank measure of new cases. Lower new cases helps with that dynamic.


  • #6448
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,122 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    It’s more and more looking as if The bad flue is looking more likely to have been the c 19. Just too many boxes ticked and convenient coincidences

    Absolutely not. Tests at the time showed it to be a flu. They are very different organisms.


  • #6449
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,053 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    First case in Feb. according to HSE.


  • #6450
    jibber5000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 349 ✭✭jibber5000


    Arghus wrote: »
    It has been proven that this is not the case, but people keep peddling it.

    They've definitively proved the genetic sequence of Covid 19 is not the same as the dose that was going around last Winter. They are different illnesses.

    Covid is not like a typical pneumonia in that there can be widespread infiltrates on a chest x-ray.

    There were no reports anywhere in Ireland about this phenomenon during the winter which means these reports are likely false.


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  • #6451
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    The question on people being in ICU in Feb and then being later diagnosed caught them out a little there.

    CMO saying there would have been a degree of suspicion


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