SleetAndSnow wrote: » 23 patients in CUH with Covid, up two from yesterday. 2 in ICU in CUH, up one. 9 in the Mercy with Covid, 2 in ICU still. CUH now has 3 Critical Care beds available, still 0 at the Mercy. Quick question, Does the South Infirmary handle any covid cases? Never really see it mentioned, does it have critical care beds? St Finbarrs I believe is just an elderly hospital correct?
JP Liz V1 wrote: » Is the old Erinville hospital being used for anything?
fin12 wrote: » https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40067250.html
Away With The Fairies wrote: » They need to make that carry on a criminal offence.
marno21 wrote: » The 15 outside at pubs rule is another rule with no basis of reason. An arbitrary number chosen with no mention of venue size or any other variables. Reardens and Dwyers had tables outside on Little Cross St which were 2m apart and completely exposed to the outdoors. There is next to zero risk of transmission between tables. There are other places with 4 tables in much smaller, enclosed spaces which have to abide by the same guidelines. Similar situation on Princes St, you could line the whole street with widely spaced tables and there would be no issue. The upsurge in cases in Cork is not attributable to venues following the guidelines which actually prevent transmission of coronavirus while not following the 15 rule which has little scientific basis.
.red. wrote: » I love the headline. Going on holidays has nothing to do with him leading to massive infection rates. It's all about him being an idiot.
TheChizler wrote: » TBH we're well past the point of infection from holidays being the main problem.
fin12 wrote: » I posted the article to show the amount of people one person can affect
TheChizler wrote: » Fair enough, I didn't get that from your post. I'm involved in an outbreak myself that started with a parent of a teacher who spread it to five colleagues and all of their families, around thirty people infected before anybody realised anyone was sick. School unit is shut down for now. Waiting to get a test myself cause I was in the same room as one of the colleagues 10 days ago. Just shows how quick things can spread even when everybody thinks they're doing things right. For anyone interested all the people in the school were wearing visors only for fear of scaring the children.
Icantthinkof1 wrote: » Sorry to hear that hopefully you escaped it. I also hope all your colleagues recover. It struck me as sad and admirable that collectively as a workplace your first thoughts were for the children as you say you all wore visors so as to not to scare your pupils Plus it’s only recently enough that it’s been acknowledged that visors don’t offer sufficient protection so yee all did your best
rodders999 wrote: » Our GP was being ultra cautious in sending my wife for a test after she was involved in a confrontation last week. No symptoms and not a close contact of a confirmed case but she was sent for a test due to the nature of the incident as a precaution anyway. She got tested at 9:15am Saturday morning but still no results back. Whole family hunkered down at home since the test, kids off schools and myself not at work today. Crazy. We really need a quicker turnaround on testing.
the beer revolu wrote: » Ours came back much quicker - about 30 hours
rodders999 wrote: » Yeah I was pretty certain we’d hear something yesterday evening or this morning at the absolute latest but nothing yet. Now starting to get concerned we won’t get anything back today and we’ll all be stuck in here again tomorrow.
the beer revolu wrote: » It's a pain. I couldn't go to work Monday or Tuesday (got result Tuesday afternoon)and had to cancel another activity, too. Has to be done, though (we were very confident that it wasn't Covid but couldn't be 100% sure).
ACitizenErased wrote: » Friend of mine was tested 10am Saturday, no result yet.
jojofizzio wrote: » Because of the large increase in numbers tested over the last 10 days,it follows that the turnaround time for results increases also unfortunately
