Covid19 Part XVIII-25,473 in ROI(1,736 deaths) 5,760 in NI (551 deaths)(30/06)Read OP

political analyst wrote: »

Both have people in them for what might be a considerable period of time.

Sitting with different people, possible sharing food and untensils , waiters and chefs touching everything delivered to an entire room of people , people coming in to use a table another group were just at , etc. There's many valid reasons why seared restaurants are near the end of restriction easing phases

The end of buffet dining in its current form for sure.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

The WHO has finally changed its advice on masks.

https://twitter.com/who/status/1268927569065324547?s=21

Wonder will we see mandatory masks sometime next week?

If we do at least we then can have a “ Show us your masks” thread

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

What will we do not seeing Tony daily, I see him more than some of my family

He’s been spotted a lot recently in bushy park on his walks, fair play to him, his shipped a barrage of abuse from online barstool experts. I hope he gets a decent break soon.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

The WHO has finally changed its advice on masks.

https://twitter.com/who/status/1268927569065324547?s=21

Wonder will we see mandatory masks sometime next week?

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52945210 They are only saying that people be recommended to wear them, so what we are doing. They go further for older people, though I'm not fully up on terminology. By medical grade masks do they mean surgical masks which protect from the wearer ( doesn't make much sense to me why older people should wear these) or N95 respirators ( but good luck getting your hands on these)?

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Latest hospital figures released.

Hospitalisations down by 17 to 123.
Increase of 1 in ICU to 37 - ventilated cases up by 1 to 23. Suspected cases in ICU down from 13 to 10, with 7 suspected cases ventilated.
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/covid-19-daily-operations-update-20-00-5-june-2020.pdf

Thanks for posting ACitizen, only just seeing these now myself. As per my post last night I was hoping we would get under 130 it would be great and I said 120 would be excellent so very happy to see 123 tonight.

Although ICU has increased by 1 we've seen it be very stable now for the last week.

All together it's been a good week and a good day.

Throughout this I've taken myself onto boards each night to update the HSE report and join in the debate but tonight I took myself away and went over to a friends house where a few of us had a BBQ and a few drinks. The first night that has felt "normal" in a long time, everyone had a different mood and attitude tonight, one of hope and optimism and it was great to see.

Let's keep up the hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette we've suppressed this is the community let's keep it that way

ACitizenErased wrote: »

The WHO has finally changed its advice on masks.

https://twitter.com/who/status/1268927569065324547?s=21

Wonder will we see mandatory masks sometime next week?

Doubt it, we don't have widespread transmission and who's going to enforce it ?

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Antibody tests aren’t going to be available on demand (at this stage anyway). They’re going to to a targeted testing of 5,000 people in two geographic parts of the country to check the levels of prior exposure. Then repeat a couple of more times over the next year to see how things change.

That’s rubbish, they are commercially available in all travel vaccination clinics. I had one last week at a cost of €80 and less than a 2-day turnaround from bloods to result.

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

People in this thread also have their heads in cuckoo land.

Didn't you advise people to listen to facebook groups rather than medical opinion?

Personally I thought PaddyGreen was a far superior parody account

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Some notable increases in daily cases in the US, the country headed for it's most new cases in one day since the beginning of May.

Florida, Michigan, Texas, Arizona, California and Georgia would appear to be the hotspots.

Before you get too excited, at least 3 of those are explained by increased testing and in the case of Michigan a change in how they report cases added backdated probables to their total. Florida is actually reporting a drop in infection rates as more tests are done.

For example, arizona

During Thursday's conference, Ducey and other health officials also addressed the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in or state. The governor said it was not unexpected. "When you see an increase in testing, you will see an increase in cases," he said.

"As you test more, you are going to find more," added AZ Health Services Director Cara Christ.

Christ also says our state is well-equipped to deal with more cases. "We have a lot of ventilators and we are prepared, come what may to Arizona."

Florida

While the state has seen its biggest daily gain in six weeks the past few days, the percentage of positive COVID-19 tests out of those reported in a single day has declined over the same time period, as the state provides testing to more people.

Michigan

The numbers for coronavirus cases and deaths jumped significantly on Friday, but not because of a second wave or outbreak.


On Friday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services presented a new version its website for coronavirus data, adding probable cases and death numbers to most of the statistics

Delighted to see some restrictions eased earlier than planned. Not sure who's in government at the moment but they handled this as well as they could from start to now in my unbiased opinion.

People seem to think the likes of leo should be an expert in everything in reality the government are just PR for experts, not just in health but everything.