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Covid 19 Part XXX-113,332 ROI(2,282 deaths) 81,251 NI (1,384 deaths) (05/01) Read OP

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  • #7472
    octsol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭octsol


    Blanco100 wrote: »
    What is the hospital numbers tonight does anyone know?

    They must be very close to 700 at this stage


  • #7473
    Fakediamond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Fakediamond


    HeyV wrote: »
    Why are our numbers so low? Is it due to lack of supply or what? How can Israel vaccinated so many compared to us? Is it supply or the cost of the vaccines?

    Maybe because they don’t celebrate Christmas, so it’s business as usual there.


  • #7474
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Blanco100 wrote: »
    What is the hospital numbers tonight does anyone know?

    This is the latest I think. I think they are usually updated at 11 am. Remember when people said it was a casedemic. That was nicer time even if it was wildly inaccurate.

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  • #7475
    ettravel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭ettravel


    traffic.

    just came off the n7 motorway, traffic heavy and similar to a typical non school day Monday.


  • #7476
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    This is the latest I think. I think they are usually updated at 11 am. Remember when people said it was a casedemic. That was nicer time even if it was wildly inaccurate.

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    Usually theres an update on the dashboard in the morning and a HSE operations report in the evening.

    The operations report didn't come last night.


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  • #7477
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    Usually theres an update on the dashboard in the morning and a HSE operations report in the evening.

    The operations report didn't come last night.

    Yeah I guess they were busy :(

    The cases are mental. I know the system for reporting them is quasi third world but with the latest numbers added the growth is likely overestimated. The non testing of close contacts is in effect decreasing the numbers so again nobody knows. It I'm not sure the current back log. Anyway current growth rate is 30% and the doubling time is 2~3 days high uncertainty with the reporting but gives an idea of what an epidemic exploding looks like.

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  • #7478
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Going for my first Covid test this morning - employer are offering / strongly recommending PCR tests for everyone returning to work this week


  • #7479
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    So yesterday I was told that the office reopening today as planned.

    Halfway into work got a text from the boss that he was keeping us closed.

    Just getting back home now.


  • #7480
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,283 ✭✭✭kenmc


    ettravel wrote: »
    traffic.

    just came off the n7 motorway, traffic heavy and similar to a typical non school day Monday.

    Yep, lying in bed hearing loads of traffic since before 7, doesn't sound any different to most weekday mornings before Xmas. Certainly nothing at all like the morning traffic sounds in April and may, when the silence was eerie. near dundrum


  • #7481
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Going for my first Covid test this morning - employer are offering / strongly recommending PCR tests for everyone returning to work this week

    Private testing?

    May make sense to have daily antigen testing.


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  • #7482
    GusGus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭GusGus


    kenmc wrote: »
    Yep, lying in bed hearing loads of traffic since before 7, doesn't sound any different to most weekday mornings before Xmas. Certainly nothing at all like the morning traffic sounds in April and may, when the silence was eerie. near dundrum

    M4 was the same as any Monday morning without school traffic - although I must say it was primarily construction traffic


  • #7483
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    So yesterday I was told that the office reopening today as planned.

    Halfway into work got a text from the boss that he was keeping us closed.

    Just getting back home now.

    WFH now?

    Sounds like he slept on it and came to a sensible decision. I think a lot of people tuned out over Xmas/NY abs yesterday’s numbers/media were a serious wake up call.


  • #7484
    OscarMIlde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    ettravel wrote: »
    traffic.

    just came off the n7 motorway, traffic heavy and similar to a typical non school day Monday.

    Yep a lot of traffic, during the first lockdown the roads were deserted. My bus is a lot quieter than it has been for a long time though. Wonder if some of the traffic is down to people driving rather than risking public transport.


  • #7485
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    WFH now?

    Sounds like he slept on it and came to a sensible decision. I think a lot of people tuned out over Xmas/NY abs yesterday’s numbers/media were a serious wake up call.

    Not really sure.

    Need an hour in the office to get work laptop and stuff to wfh. I'd dint have a computer home over the christmas.

    He said he will let us know about tomorrow later.

    Kidn of hard for me since I've been working 7:30-3:30 to avoid traffic. Most other staff will probably have got the message before they travelled into work.


  • #7486
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    Private testing?

    May make sense to have daily antigen testing.

    Yes private PCR testing- using a German Lab as far as I know. They have been testing 50 employees per week for the past couple of months. Zero positives up to Christmas. There have already been a couple of positives from the small proportion of staff who returned last week


  • #7487
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,746 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    So yesterday I was told that the office reopening today as planned.

    Halfway into work got a text from the boss that he was keeping us closed.

    Just getting back home now.

    Your boss is a muppet


  • #7488
    octsol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭octsol


    Dashboard showing 149 cases in hospital

    All back to work crisis over

    https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu--testing


  • #7489
    xhomelezz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭xhomelezz


    octsol wrote: »
    Dashboard showing 149 cases in hospital

    All back to work crisis over

    https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu--testing

    Yeah covid app says the same 149 in the hospital.


  • #7490
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    That has to be an error in inputting. There can’t have been 500 releases over night


  • #7491
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    There was a guy(think Alan Gaffney was his name) from Beaumont on morning Ireland earlier saying if needs be they can go up to 350 ICU beds in the country. Now presume that would mean everything else would be cancelled and all resources would go into it,hopefully things won't deteriorate that badly


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  • #7492
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    octsol wrote: »
    Dashboard showing 149 cases in hospital

    All back to work crisis over

    https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu--testing

    Surely that has to be a mistake? With half that in ICU?


  • #7493
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    mirrorwall14 wrote: »
    That has to be an error in inputting. There can’t have been 500 releases over night

    Yeah and half in ICU. Means you have a very high chance of ending up in ICU if you go to hospital!!!

    That's not right at all.


  • #7494
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    giveitholly wrote: »
    There was a guy(think Alan Gaffney was his name) from Beaumont on morning Ireland earlier saying if needs be they can go up to 350 ICU beds in the country. Now presume that would mean everything else would be cancelled and all resources would go into it, hopefully things won't deteriorate that badly
    That would be the surge plan they were working on. It seems they add them to system as required rather than all at once.


  • #7495
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Yeah and half in ICU. Means you have a very high chance of ending up in ICU if you go to hospital!!!

    That's not right at all.

    More likely to be 749 tbh depressing as that is


  • #7496
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    This is a great idea to keep the numbers down and mask the policy failures and absolute failures. We've been very inventive in keeping people guessing at numbers. "Maybe they know, maybe they don't know, who can say for sure"

    Go to work, don't go to work. Stay at home , have a great Christmas. Go to the pub/restaurant , don't go to the restaurant.
    It's mind numbing at this stage.
    The testing and tracing system is becoming increasingly overwhelmed to the point where the automatic test for everyone who is suspected of having the lethal virus may have to be abandoned.

    Instead, targeted testing of particular groups – such as older people – may have to be introduced. It comes as 4,962 new cases of the virus were reported yesterday bringing the total number of infections here over the 100,000 mark to 101,887.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/covid-testing-may-be-limited-to-vulnerable-groups-only-39928070.html

    https://twitter.com/caulmick/status/1346007331465781249?s=20


  • #7497
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    How does testing vulnerable groups help? Surely it's testing anyone and everyone to prevent the spread and protect the most vulnerable?


  • #7498
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    mirrorwall14 wrote: »
    More likely to be 749 tbh depressing as that is

    Very depressing. It's increasing so fast.


  • #7499
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    How does testing vulnerable groups help? Surely it's testing anyone and everyone to prevent the spread and protect the most vulnerable?
    As the CMO reminded people when we couldn't test - stay at home and keep the virus there. 63% of current cases are in the under 45s, in theory people far less likely to require hospitalisation.


  • #7500
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    giveitholly wrote: »
    There was a guy(think Alan Gaffney was his name) from Beaumont on morning Ireland earlier saying if needs be they can go up to 350 ICU beds in the country. Now presume that would mean everything else would be cancelled and all resources would go into it,hopefully things won't deteriorate that badly

    So ICU's are designed to have double capacity in an emergency (a recent example would have been the manchester bombing back in 2017). They aren't sustainable long term as doctors, nurses etc will get worn out.


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  • #7501
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    is_that_so wrote: »
    As the CMO reminded people when we couldn't test - stay at home and keep the virus there.

    Can I use this as an excuse to claim social welfare? I really don't want to be going into work with all that's going on. It's far too risky.


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