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Covid 19 Part XXVII- 62,002 ROI (1,915 deaths) 39,609 NI (724 deaths) (02/11) Read OP

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  • #6362
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Deleted User wrote: »
    My wife got a message on her phone from the Covid app saying she has two exposures in the last week...

    What is she meant to do now?

    It’s strange because I didn’t get the notification and we’ve been together at all times apart from when she was inside with her GP.
    Call HSE Live and ask them.


  • #6363
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,595 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Deleted User wrote: »
    My wife got a message on her phone from the Covid app saying she has two exposures in the last week...

    What is she meant to do now?

    It’s strange because I didn’t get the notification and we’ve been together at all times apart from when she was inside with her GP.

    Theres a set of instructions in the app along with a phone number to ring.


  • #6364
    US2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭US2


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    My wife got a message on her phone from the Covid app saying she has two exposures in the last week...

    What is she meant to do now?

    It’s strange because I didn’t get the notification and we’ve been together at all times apart from when she was inside with her GP.

    She should isolate and ring her doctor for a test or wait till contact tracers ring her in 2 weeks time


  • #6365
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Derek Zoolander wrote: »
    how is NI disastrous numbers a more nuanced approach... they are consistently amongst the highest per capita rates in europe?

    But they can play golf.... And Golfmans life apparently revolves around that :pac:


  • #6366
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Amirani wrote: »
    Not exactly sure why they haven't decided to test everyone. You'd probably struggle to get things done if you were testing everyone including those with very low pre-test probabilities.

    They do test a lot though, would be well over half of admissions that get a test (in the main Dublin hospitals anyway).

    Thats just mind boggling if true

    I thought everyone admitted to hospital was tested


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  • #6367
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    US2 wrote: »
    Source ? I'm fairly certain they do.

    My partner is a doctor in the Mater admitting patients every day.


  • #6368
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,896 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    I presume there will be a day or two soon when numbers take a big jump as the closed lab/ labs get through the backlog of cases.


  • #6369
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,730 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    No swab data yet?


  • #6370
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,981 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Amirani wrote: »
    Not exactly sure why they haven't decided to test everyone. You'd probably struggle to get things done if you were testing everyone including those with very low pre-test probabilities.

    They do test a lot though, would be well over half of admissions that get a test (in the main Dublin hospitals anyway).

    I have seen that in Galway too. Not everybody admitted gets a test.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #6371
    Goldrickssan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Goldrickssan


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    I presume there will be a day or two soon when numbers take a big jump as the closed lab/ labs get through the backlog of cases.

    The closed lab was only counting 600 odd cases a day so it won't make a difference.


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  • #6372
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,505 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    I presume there will be a day or two soon when numbers take a big jump as the closed lab/ labs get through the backlog of cases.

    Not really as it was around 600 tests being processed at the NVRL and they were outsourced to other labs while closed.


  • #6373
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Amirani wrote: »
    My partner is a doctor in the Mater admitting patients every day.

    Wow, thanks for sharing. If this is indeed true then that explains a lot of the discrepancy so. They really need to explain this better. When people don't understand how a figure is generated they can come up with all sorts of ways to explain it to fit their viewpoint.

    Not to dismiss the tin foil mad hatters as it's a good question but I suspect wrong to think 'nobody going to hospital with covid they are all getting it there'. Need a definition of what it means exactly. I'd want to know the breakdown of the following...
    • how many are true nosocomial as part of an outbreak
    • how many who developed symptoms while in for something else and got subsequently testsed positive
    • how many who came to A and E with symptoms, who where admitted then tested positive after the admittance figure release.


  • #6374
    shmeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,717 ✭✭✭✭shmeee


    Deleted User wrote: »
    My wife got a message on her phone from the Covid app saying she has two exposures in the last week...

    What is she meant to do now?

    It’s strange because I didn’t get the notification and we’ve been together at all times apart from when she was inside with her GP.

    Are you sure you are not mixing this up with the bluetooth notification on the number of exposure checks the phone has done in last 14 days.

    I have 95 checks in the past 14 days for example.

    Can view this under settings, contract tracing, update settings.


  • #6375
    Goldrickssan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Goldrickssan


    Give us the swabs or we riot


  • #6376
    Stormyteacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭Stormyteacup


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Wow, thanks for sharing. If this is indeed true then that explains a lot of the discrepancy so. They really need to explain this better. When people don't understand how a figure is generated they can come up with all sorts of ways to explain it to fit their viewpoint.

    Not to dismiss the tin foil mad hatters as it's a good question but I suspect wrong to think 'nobody going to hospital with covid they are all getting it there'. Need a definition of what it means exactly. I'd want to know the breakdown of the following...
    • how many are true nosocomial as part of an outbreak
    • how many who developed symptoms while in for something else and got subsequently testsed positive
    • how many who came to A and E with symptoms, who where admitted then tested positive after the admittance figure release.


    It’s interesting that these questions are acceptable now but two months ago were only asked by tin foil mad hatters.


  • #6377
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    Goldrickssan wrote: »
    Give us the swabs or we riot

    Did you get over your swab blue balls?


  • #6378
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Amirani wrote: »
    My partner is a doctor in the Mater admitting patients every day.

    Strange move by the mater. My hospital tests everybody in A+E or direct admission to hospital. Isolated until proven negative.


  • #6379
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,896 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Goldrickssan wrote: »
    The closed lab was only counting 600 odd cases a day so it won't make a difference.

    600 X 3 X 6% = 108 cases.


  • #6380
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,896 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Not really as it was around 600 tests being processed at the NVRL and they were outsourced to other labs while closed.

    Is that a media reported outsourcing or have you some info on it?


  • #6381
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,326 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    With bank holiday last evening is the next NPHET media briefing Thursday?


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  • #6382
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,595 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    Is that a media reported outsourcing or have you some info on it?

    Cillian de Gascun in an interview with rte news last Thursday or Friday.

    Quotes

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/one-of-country-s-main-labs-unable-to-process-covid-19-tests-over-weekend-due-to-staff-shortages-1.4389343%3fmode=amp


  • #6383
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    Is that a media reported outsourcing or have you some info on it?
    https://www.thejournal.ie/testing-covid-19-lab-staff-cases-ucd-5242870-Oct2020/


  • #6384
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,505 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Wow, thanks for sharing. If this is indeed true then that explains a lot of the discrepancy so. They really need to explain this better. When people don't understand how a figure is generated they can come up with all sorts of ways to explain it to fit their viewpoint.

    Not to dismiss the tin foil mad hatters as it's a good question but I suspect wrong to think 'nobody going to hospital with covid they are all getting it there'. Need a definition of what it means exactly. I'd want to know the breakdown of the following...
    • how many are true nosocomial as part of an outbreak
    • how many who developed symptoms while in for something else and got subsequently testsed positive
    • how many who came to A and E with symptoms, who where admitted then tested positive after the admittance figure release.
    The Dublin hospital I know of tests ALL admissions and this is policy, previously stated by CMO and deputy CMO that all admissions should be tested. All awaiting a test result are classified as suspected covid in HSE reports until swab result comes back.

    The closest you'll get is HPSC data on the likely source of infection. This lists the numbers under hospital acquired as probable source.

    Many of us raised hospital acquired infection a good while ago and we were essentially dismissed on questioning the hospitalised numbers by a few posters on here. Labelled tin foil hat yet the data raised the question, now here we are with you asking the same question as some of us did a good while ago.

    Nobody was saying oh nobody is going to hospital with covid, the question was why hospital acquired continued to be high, resulting in days where there should have been a net decrease but there was an increase. Subsequently news emerged on hospital outbreaks.

    It was quite obvious the numbers at times didn't add up.


  • #6385
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    Eod100 wrote: »
    With bank holiday last evening is the next NPHET media briefing Thursday?

    This evening


  • #6386
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Interesting piece on the economics of the lockdown and who it affects.
    http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/lockdown-decision-makers-still-get-paid-those-they-shut-down-do-not/


  • #6387
    Non solum non ambulabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Non solum non ambulabit


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    600 X 3 X 6% = 108 cases.

    The tests didn't disappear they were just processed in a different lab


  • #6388
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,465 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    Eod100 wrote: »
    With bank holiday last evening is the next NPHET media briefing Thursday?

    Today at 5.


  • #6389
    IrishStuff09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭IrishStuff09


    Well this is promising!

    fbLDQoO.png


  • #6390
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,326 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    This evening
    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    Today at 5.

    Thanks, hadn't spotted that!


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  • #6391
    Mike3549
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    Stheno wrote: »
    In hospitals? Why would they not test everyone being admitted?

    Got a nasty cut to my hand today, that required stitching. Are you saying they werent allowed to desinfect a wound and do stitching until they get a negative result? What about car accidents? Are doctors allowed to save a life without it?


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