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Covid 19 Part XXVIII- 71,942 ROI(2,050 deaths) 51,824 NI (983 deaths) (28/11) Read OP

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  • #5642
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    Have our friends in NPHET a view on mass antigen testing?


  • #5643
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    Have our friends in NPHET a view on mass antigen testing?

    Yes

    NPHET says no to antigen testing full stop


  • #5644
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    SortingYouOut wrote: »
    New York closing schools as cases begin to mount again.

    Yeah, they used 3% positivity as the trigger.


  • #5645
    Steve012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Steve012


    giveitholly wrote: »
    Jesus I would of loved to have gone to a school like that when I was young,shifting and sharing fags in the school

    Was like that in my dat tbh


  • #5646
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    Stheno wrote: »
    Yes

    NPHET says no to antigen testing full stop

    Ok. So the real experts in ECDC recommend but Tony says no. Was he born up north?


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  • #5647
    normanoffside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,231 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    Have our friends in NPHET a view on mass antigen testing?

    Yeah, they're against it according to MM

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1329046305495261190

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1329053445576388608


  • #5648
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Peter Flynt wrote: »
    Is that the "real world" where most are working from home?

    Many industries, retail premises and of course the health sector can't work from home. I would imagine in the majority of cases those in employment are actually on site each day.
    You do of course have an option if you are unhappy in your own situation.


  • #5649
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,235 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    rob316 wrote: »
    Oh there won't be pubs in Ireland this Christmas time, the greatest gift we'll get this year is cans

    Where nothing ever spills
    No thrills but only pills
    Do they know it's Christmas time at all
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #5650
    Non solum non ambulabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Non solum non ambulabit


    normanoffside wrote: »
    Yeah, they're against it according to MM

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1329046305495261190

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1329053445576388608

    I can't understand the reluctance to approve rapid testing. It can only help. It will find cases PCR will never find.


  • #5651
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    This.
    Would hate to see schools closed tbh.
    But the only things that are open now that may be contributing besides social gatherings are schools and people not WFH .
    Maybe if the latter was supported a bit more, we might get past the post without schools being affected?

    Hospitals are operating as normal, during the last lockdown normal procedure s were stopped.


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  • #5652
    majcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭majcos


    Positivity rate in Wyoming is 90.6% today!
    John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre


  • #5653
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,686 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Where nothing ever spills
    No thrills but only pills
    Do they know it's Christmas time at all

    NPHET do you know it's Christmas time at all
    Pour the pints!
    Let them know it's Christmas time
    Pour the pints!
    Let them know it's Christmas time.


    Jesus this would make a great viral video, bad taste but brilliant


  • #5654
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,043 ✭✭✭Polar101


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    There's a rumor going around that Bono and Geldof will be releasing a song for the virus.

    If they play the song wherever people gather, that should help the crowds disperse quickly. South William Street is going to be empty.


  • #5655
    majcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭majcos


    Is there Irish data available on positivity rate by age group?

    I have seen number of cases by age group but wondering about the numbers of tests in the each age group/positivity rate.


  • #5656
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    There's a rumor going around that Bono and Geldof will be releasing a song for the virus.

    At last, something to look forward to icon14.png

    The two of them are a dose so vaccine sorted


  • #5657
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Stheno wrote: »
    Is that the policy where even if you a close contact of a confirmed case and your first test is negative, you don't have to isolate but instead are asked to come into work even though you may still be developing infection if that makes sense?

    Yes.
    Pretty widespread . INMO are fighting it .
    Senseless carryon .
    Bit like public health limiting the numbers deemed close contacts of confirmed cases in schools .
    It is happening.


  • #5658
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    Yes.
    Pretty widespread . INMO are fighting it .
    Senseless carryon .
    Bit like public health limiting the numbers deemed close contacts of confirmed cases in schools .
    It is happening.

    Who are the people advocating this strategy?


  • #5659
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    Hospitals are operating as normal, during the last lockdown normal procedure s were stopped.

    That's a positive surely ?
    Hardly contributing to a major plus in mobility data ;)


  • #5660
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    Who are the people advocating this strategy?

    Excuse me?

    Edit . That should read ..its the HSE !


  • #5661
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    That's a positive surely ?
    Hardly contributing to a major plus in mobility data ;)

    In a week when there are so many cases coming from hospital patients and staff I think it is ironic to call for schools to be closed, wait untill there are clusters from schools anyway, but I do agree that it is a great positive that hospitals are doing elective procedures etc, I just think it's a positive that the young people are getting out to school if possible also.


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  • #5662
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    Have our friends in NPHET a view on mass antigen testing?

    NEPHET asked HIQA to evaluate various testing methods.

    https://www.hiqa.ie/hiqa-news-updates/hiqa-publishes-its-assessment-alternative-tests-detect-sars-cov-2


  • #5663
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Free the pubssssss
    Let us have our Christmas time and
    Free the pubbbsssssss

    There really is a song here :)


  • #5664
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    majcos wrote: »
    Positivity rate in Wyoming is 90.6% today!
    John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre

    What! Insane.

    I see that 1 out of 1000 residents in North / South (I can't remember) Dakota have died.

    0.1% of the population. In some areas of NYC, 0.6%, which is approaching the fatality rate of thr virus in the general population.


  • #5665
    majcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭majcos


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    Hospitals are operating as normal, during the last lockdown normal procedure s were stopped.
    Much more operational than during last wave but there are some limitations in specific hospitals. All elective surgery was cancelled in Letterkenny University Hospital as of Monday but other areas such as endoscopy, angiograms and outpatients are not as restricted as before. As of Friday the 13th, there were 133 staff off in Letterkenny.

    In Limerick, all routine appointments and most elective procedures were cancelled in middle of last week. 188 staff out as of Thursday the 12th.

    In Naas, elective surgeries and outpatient appointments were suspended for two weeks as of 10th of November. 87 staff currently out.

    However, most other hospitals are operating at normal levels of activity which is much better than first wave.


  • #5666
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    Yes.
    Pretty widespread . INMO are fighting it .
    Senseless carryon .
    Bit like public health limiting the numbers deemed close contacts of confirmed cases in schools .
    It is happening.

    Thats insane. I actually don't know how HCWs find the mental strength to operate under those conditions that

    Same with teachers

    I am one of those people working from home, today I had to go out to view a house as we need to move.

    It was really strange to me to see all the traffic etc as most days I don't really leave my house

    Showed me how isolated I've become, but it must be very stressful working in health care under the current conditions


  • #5667
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Stheno wrote: »
    Thats insane. I actually don't know how HCWs find the mental strength to operate under those conditions that

    Same with teachers

    I am one of those people working from home, today I had to go out to view a house as we need to move.

    It was really strange to me to see all the traffic etc as most days I don't really leave my house

    Showed me how isolated I've become, but it must be very stressful working in health care under the current conditions

    Saw somewhere yesterday ballot for strike action by imo


  • #5668
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    pc7 wrote: »
    Free the pubssssss
    Let us have our Christmas time and
    Free the pubbbsssssss

    There really is a song here :)

    All you need is a bodhran and a tin whistle :)


  • #5669
    Peter Flynt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭Peter Flynt


    The lowest point of the NPHET blame game on rising virus figures has to be the blaming of the dead and their funerals.

    I really wonder what sort of people we have as doctors in Ireland.


  • #5670
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    Non solum non ambulabit wrote: »
    I can't understand the reluctance to approve rapid testing. It can only help. It will find cases PCR will never find.

    People like to protect their patch.


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  • #5671
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    spookwoman wrote: »
    Saw somewhere yesterday ballot for strike action by imo

    That was the Public Health doctors I think


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