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Covid 19 Part XXIII-33,444 in ROI(1,792 deaths) 9,541 in NI(577 deaths)(22/09)Read OP

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  • #9902
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    Layman here - does this mean they're running through the PCR tests loads of times making it really sensitive? So we're getting a lot of false positives?


  • #9903
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    petes wrote: »
    Who was off their head? Were you off your head watching it? She asked him to qualify an answer and he hadn't a notion what to say, looked like a deer in headlights. About time someone questioned these claims and it's certainly not going to be done by anyone in rte.
    she was all rte could afford, probably just off the boat from India with fake papers


  • #9904
    LessOutragePlz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    declanflynn wrote: »
    if you believe that bull**** theres no hope for you

    Hahahaha so you only believe RTE and a certain group of experts but not an ICU doctor that is exactly working in the hospital.

    Makes perfect sense really since someone people can't be saved from their own ignorance.


  • #9905
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,990 ✭✭✭growleaves


    declanflynn wrote: »
    she was all rte could afford, probably just off the boat from India with fake papers

    Ah so you're only trolling. Fair enough


  • #9906
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Polar101


    LessOutragePlz wrote: »
    Is this Spanish doctor a nutcase too?.

    I don't know, but I generally wouldn't watch a Youtube video if they have "OMG" or "unbelievable" in the title (or "truth"). Every time I've done that, I get a video with a shouty voice ramming down an opinion, rather than a balanced view.


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  • #9907
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    <link dump deleted>


  • #9908
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    Professor Luke o neill just sold the company he co founded for €400 million.

    The wolf on the hill is never as hungry as the wolf climbing hill


  • #9909
    TonyMaloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    declanflynn wrote: »
    she was all rte could afford, probably just off the boat from India with fake papers

    yeesh

    that's some nasty **** declan


  • #9910
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,544 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    funnydoggy wrote: »
    Layman here - does this mean they're running through the PCR tests loads of times making it really sensitive? So we're getting a lot of false positives?

    It's irrelevant, with so many being found with no symptoms, the numbers to watch are icu and deaths, we should only get case numbers once or twice a week


  • #9911
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    LessOutragePlz wrote: »
    Hahahaha so you only believe RTE and a certain group of experts but not an ICU doctor that is exactly working in the hospital.

    Makes perfect sense really since someone people can't be saved from their own ignorance.
    how do u know he is a doctor?


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  • #9912
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    fritzelly wrote:
    Saying different here
    That person thinks 91% of cases are false positives? And that doesnt sound crazy?


    So months ago people were convinced they had covid, tested negative and some were saying sure they're probably false negatives.

    Our criteria was narrowed to detect as many cases as possible and yet we couldn't find them all with lower capacity at the time.

    And now the conversation has moved on to cycle thresholds and how suddenly the cases that we are detecting are wrong as well.

    We've gone from not being good enough at finding cases to pulling them out of thin air.

    ???


  • #9913
    TonyMaloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    Deleted User wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BothaBoy/status/1308507098490245133?s=20

    Do you think everyone working in medicine is an idiot?


  • #9914
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BothaBoy/status/1308507098490245133?s=20

    I stabbed myself in the eyes when I got to the word Overlord, had to use voice to text for this. Cheers.


  • #9915
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,296 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    Professor Luke o neill just sold the company he co founded for €400 million.

    The company he founded was just sold for €400 million.

    Massive difference.


  • #9916
    LessOutragePlz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    declanflynn wrote: »
    she was all rte could afford, probably just off the boat from India with fake papers

    Wow racist much?


  • #9917
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    Professor Luke o neill just sold the company he co founded for €400 million.

    Fair play to him. Great to see an irish person having success in his field.


  • #9918
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BothaBoy/status/1308507098490245133?s=20

    Not that I don't believe those accuracy figures

    Didn't China test millions in Wuhan over a few days and only got a few hundred positives

    Our testing would have got thousands of positives

    Chinese are alot smarter than us though, tests were probably accurate :-)


  • #9919
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Another high number of cases today. The days of low numbers of below 100 a day are long over unfortunately.


  • #9920
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,423 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BothaBoy/status/1308507098490245133?s=20
    I really hate to break it to you but Cary Grant is dead....and when he was alive I am not sure he was an expert virologist...


  • #9921
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Hospitals Update:

    Mater (+4) - 21
    St. James (--) - 10
    Beaumont (-2) - 9
    Connolly (--) - 8
    Tullamore (+1) - 7
    St Vincents (-1) - 6
    Tallaght (--) - 6
    UHL (--) - 5
    GUH (+1) - 4
    Mercy (+1) - 4
    UHW (--) - 3
    Mullingar (--) - 2
    Naas (+1) - 2
    Portlaoise (--) - 2
    Drogheda (-1) - 1
    Letterkenny (--) - 1
    Navan (--) - 1
    South Tipp (--) - 1
    UHK (+1) - 1
    CUH (-1) - 0

    ICU:

    Tallaght (--) - 3
    UHL (--) - 2
    Portlaoise (--) - 2
    Mater (-1) - 2
    Beaumont (--) - 1
    Connolly (--) - 1
    Mercy (--) - 1
    South Tipp (--) - 1
    St James (--) - 1
    St Vincents (--) - 1
    Tullamore (--) - 1


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  • #9922
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    LessOutragePlz wrote: »
    Wow racist much?
    no!
    She said she was from India!
    I'm just questioning the state of her mind


  • #9923
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    School outbreaks increasing.

    https://twitter.com/DeeGilhawley/status/1308512102542438406?s=20


  • #9924
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,296 ✭✭✭Allinall


    declanflynn wrote: »
    no!
    She said she was from India!
    I'm just questioning the state of her mind

    What’s with the boat reference?


  • #9925
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    declanflynn wrote: »
    no!
    She said she was from India!
    I'm just questioning the state of her mind

    By placing her "state of mind" alongside her nationality and her supposedly illegitimate travels here, your intentions are pretty clear.


  • #9926
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Fairly big development in the last hour.
    HSE admits that 70-80 cases per day (for 10000 tests) are false positives.
    Christ.
    https://twitter.com/DavQuinn/status/1308493818027741184?s=20

    May explain part of the reason all over Europe there is a lot more cases but less sickness than first wave. May lose some public support if this is managed badly by health departments.


  • #9927
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    Allinall wrote: »
    What’s with the boat reference?
    my mistake, if she came by plane


  • #9928
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Martina1991 wrote: »
    The question is:
    How many people who got a positive result were falsely told they were positve

    Answer e.g.: 0.8%
    So 0.8% of the people who got a positive result were false.

    Not 0.8% of every one who was tested.
    Leaving the positive element aside (hard to wrap my brain around that). In simpler to understand terms: if you test 10,000 sterile swabs, as theres zero covid RNA on it to replicate, you will get 10,000 negative results?


  • #9929
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    TonyMaloney wrote: »
    were you just thumbing through the Tennessee Star when you stumbled upon this article, Woody?

    Funny I have never seen you ask this of another poster who posts equally obsure stuff. Bias prehaps?


  • #9930
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Leaving the positive element aside (hard to wrap my brain around that). In simpler to understand terms: if you test 10,000 sterile swabs, as theres zero covid RNA on it to replicate, you will get 10,000 negative results?
    good question


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  • #9931
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Just watching this so called professor, clearly a loon. That she has a PhD or masters degree doesn't mean she is immune from bad ideology - a way of viewing the world which is inimical to public health during a pandemic of a virus without any cure.


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