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

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

Cork still having the odd problem it seems. Clusters somewhere I wonder?

Cork City's patterns are likely to be more in line with Dublin than other parts of Ireland. I'd say that's where your slightly higher numbers are coming from as the patterns of movement and behaviour in urban areas are very likely to be very similar: population density, types of employment, places where people will go to and from, use of public transport, universities, much bigger clusters of schools etc etc

Also in terms of scale, Dublin is 10X+ many counties and Cork 5X+ many of them, so in both cases you're looking at them always being outliers.

Limerick City has also featured as a blip in previous months.

We seem to continuously do county-to-county comparisons that make no sense as the populations are varying by enormous amounts between them and some are extremely rural vs quite urban. Then you've this "Dublin" and "Non-Dublin" nonsense which tells you absolutely nothing.

A figure for urban Ireland, looking at a comparison between the 5 cities would be far more useful and rural Ireland taking a look at similar counties would be equally more useful than lumping for example rural West Cork in with Cork City in stats.

The issues facing the cities are very different to those facing rural areas and they need different solutions and commentary.

Donegal's also a rather unique case, with the east of the county effectively being in Derry City's hinterland.