Covid 19 Part XX-26,644 in ROI (1,772 deaths) 6,064 in NI (556 deaths) (08/08)Read OP

I find it a bit illogical that the new ‘local’ lockdown covers an area defined by county borders. How does this make any sense. If there is an outbreak in a particular setting, then the logical thing to do is to lock down the people who are affected, not some arbitrary area which was originally defined hundreds of years ago as the territory belonging to particular landed gentry.

tom1ie wrote: »

Who’s terrified?! Lol! I’m grand!
That really is the last remarks of guys who have run out of answers.
I’m just feeding you a spoonful of realism that’s all.
I would rather We go with this whack a mole scenario than have a national lockdown, what would you prefer?

Thats fair enough but stopping an industry which has had no cases and is outdoors is just madness. I'm guessing you don't have any financial worries.

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

My wife is a doctor in a Dublin hospital. I asked her just now having seen this debate here before and never thought much of it. Anyways my wife confirmed what a suspected case is. There are multiple daily tests taken around the country in a hospital setting from people who don't have any symptoms of covid 19 and are presenting themselves for other medical concerns. Not everyone is offered a test and not everyone when offered takes one. So a suspected case in a hospital is largely made up of people in hospital for other reasons and without covid symptoms. But of course there can be a mixture of people with covid like symptoms too. But the wife believes people without covid symptoms largely outnumber those with them for the pending results of a suspected case. She pointed to times when cases were in single digits but suspected cases were much higher.

Thank you for the further clarification.

Santy2015 wrote: »

Getting quite annoyed with headlines like this constantly popping up. The echo has been very poor recently. The suspected cases malarkey doesn’t mean they’re all Covid positive as has been said by a few in this thread. All click bait headlines. Are the Irish media being told to publish this as to keep us in check? It just looks like the majority of the media seem as if they cack their pants when cases or deaths are announced and pass that on to us!!
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Covid-19-latest-new-cases-continue-to-be-identified-in-Cork--d9c9679c-4a42-47f6-b987-3f6ab78b9856-ds

The Echo haven't been any good for the last few years. Turning into a mockeyah tabloid.

About the only things good are the court reports and local sport

niallo27 wrote: »

How can they know they have lifelong damage to their lungs after a few months. How do you know you had a moderate case or a serious case.

I had a very mild case as I was only bedridden for 3 or 4 days. Fever lasted about the same, as did the muscular pains and extreme fatigue. I believe that a mild case is often defined as one not requiring hospitalisation. I wasn't hospitalised but had pneumonia (diagnosed by GP) for about 6 weeks - at the time I just felt that it was the worst flu I had ever experienced.

Afterwards I still struggled to breathe properly or perform any physical exercise until recently. My girlfriend also had the illness and suffered worse symptoms than I did. Thankfully she wasn't hospitalised either, but she also didn't recover properly until recently. It's the longer lasting issues that really frighten me. I don't know when I will stop sweating every time I move from indoors to outdoors. I don't know when I will no longer have to breathe very deeply to feel I take in enough air. I don't know when the constant migraines will stop.

As for how long term effects of the disease are projected or quantified, I do not work in the medical profession and therefore do not feel comfortable commenting on the findings on chronic effects of covid as described in various medical journals. Happy to bow to the experts on this one. But put it this way - it's not something I'd recommend picking up.

niallo27 wrote: »

What if what if, has one case come from this industry yet. You do realise life has to go on too and not live terrified. Its not healthy for you.

Life has to go on, it will, be healthy ? Less healthy if you get covid... more terrifying too.

Santy2015 wrote: »

Is this working for anyone? It’s been updated for tonight but page error keeps coming up.
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/

Working fine for me.

As of 8pm, 10 confirmed cases in hospital. 5 in ICU.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Hospitals Update

Mater (-1) - 2
Kilkenny (+1) - 2
Tallaght (--) - 2
Drogheda (-1) - 1
Beaumont (--) - 1
Cavan (--) - 1
UHL (--) - 1
Galway (-1) - 0

And no confirmed hospitalised cases in Portlaoise, Tullamore or Naas....yet.

Let’s hope it stays that way and the demographics of the current cluster will act in their favour.

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

My wife is a doctor in a Dublin hospital. I asked her just now having seen this debate here before and never thought much of it. Anyways my wife confirmed what a suspected case is. There are multiple daily tests taken around the country in a hospital setting from people who don't have any symptoms of covid 19 and are presenting themselves for other medical concerns. Not everyone is offered a test and not everyone when offered takes one. So a suspected case in a hospital is largely made up of people in hospital for other reasons and without covid symptoms. But of course there can be a mixture of people with covid like symptoms too. But the wife believes people without covid symptoms largely outnumber those with them for the pending results of a suspected case. She pointed to times when cases were in single digits but suspected cases were much higher.

That seems quite low then, a hundred and something, I thought everyone was being tested on admission to hospital. Wasn’t there something recently about private fees for any surgery patients needing a test

Thierry12 wrote: »

10 in hospital in the whole country?

I thought we had 300+ cases this week alone and covid puts 20% of infected in hospital?

Usually hospitalisation runs a week or ten days behind.