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Covid 19 Part XXXI-187,554 ROI (2,970 deaths) 100,319 NI (1,730 deaths)(24/01)Read OP

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  • #1592
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,154 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    A &E staff deserve a bit of a break. Should have a month long lockdown every winter

    Really? Sounds kind of busy...
    Management at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, are asking the public to only attend the ED if it is absolutely necessary. A spokesperson says the Hospital and its Emergency Department is currently experiencing very high volumes of people attending.


  • #1593
    Lashes28
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    redarmy wrote: »
    BREAKING: Management at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, are asking the public to only attend the ED if it is absolutely necessary. A spokesperson says the Hospital and its Emergency Department is currently experiencing very high volumes of people attending.

    Nothing new there, hours and hours with one doctor after 8pm doing the wards and A and E


  • #1594
    risteard7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭risteard7


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Really? Sounds kind of busy...

    That happens every January


  • #1595
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,132 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Nor am I. I'm not doubting your experience either. Your anecdote reference an A and E department. This is one department in a hospital.
    I'm not a nurse but I know they have covid 'pathways'. Nobody should be rocking up to A and E with covid and milling around as it's a massive infection risk. For sure some probably do but it's unlikely and a very small minority.

    The problem as outlined in the article is that there were over 100 hundred nurses out either with covid or due to being a close contact. That severely depletes the rosters and puts strain on those still working etc. coupled with the high numbers of patients on other wards.



    Do you see how a quite A and E may not mean that the hospital is not under pressure?

    Of course.

    But I wasn't just in the A and E.

    The whole hospital was eerily quiet.

    As you said I probably didn't see the covid area so hard to know.


  • #1596
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    They're very late with the presser/numbers.


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  • #1597
    [Deleted User]
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    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Stephen posted Hancock’s full quote, Hancock has basically no idea he’s guessing , but of course feel free to post the worry emoji again .
    Your original worried comment had nothing to do with cost, although what do you think is cheaper continuously lockdown or vaccination?

    It certainly had to do with cost. Cost of medication is a huge burden upon the HSE.


  • #1598
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,353 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    They're very late with the presser/numbers.

    The number is so high it's taking them forever to type it out


  • #1599
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,154 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    risteard7 wrote: »
    That happens every January

    So, there's currently pressure or there isn't??

    Decide.


  • #1600
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    The number is so high it's taking them forever to type it out

    :) climbing that backlog takes time


  • #1601
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 56,547 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    risteard7 wrote: »
    Absolutely not acceptable. But Covid is all that matters these day's. The amount of undiagnosed cancers in the next few years will be crazy due to people being afraid to go to hospital or not able to get an appointment

    Mod:

    Second breach of your threadban - 2 week forum ban applied

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling



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  • #1602
    emeldc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭emeldc


    lukas8888 wrote: »
    What's stopping you travelling abroad before August,with or without vaccine.
    Will the country you’re traveling to let you in without it?


  • #1603
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    They're very late with the presser/numbers.

    Pushed back to closer to 7pm


  • #1604
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Anyway, I found today's HSE report quite interesting to listen to.
    Not sure much of interest will be said this evening.


  • #1605
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Why is it taking so long to roll out the vaccine in Ireland?

    1st 9 days - 15,000 vaccinated

    Next 3 days (by the end of this week) - they claim a further 20,000 will be vaccinated!!

    5% of population vaccinated by end of Q1..... so unless we really honour game (and get a significant increase in the amount of vaccine we get) , we are looking at being around 20% at years end.... so 5 years for the entire population.......

    Apparently that's acceptable to people here. No holding the Government to account because .... green jersey.... all in this together.... etc etc.
    I think a lot of folks are wearing that green jersey a bit too tightly.


  • #1606
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Really? Sounds kind of busy...

    Was takin the pee pee Jim

    One anecdote of a quiet A & E doesnt mean theyre all quiet.


  • #1607
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    They're very late with the presser/numbers.
    Why is that a problem? Were you planning to have your tea with it?!


  • #1608
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,132 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    emeldc wrote: »
    Will the country you’re traveling to let you in without it?

    I don't think hhe vaccine stops you spreading it or at least they don't know yet.

    We could be a long way off foreign holidays even with the vaccine.


  • #1609
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    risteard7 wrote: »
    In my 8 years working for the HSE this is the first with no trolley Crisis at winter

    Never was a crisis really was it if it can end with the click of a finger. Just bed hoggers clogging the system with every ache and pain. After April when COVID deaths ended Ireland has seen normal or below normal mortality rates, so clearly those the prioritisation on COVID patients did not cause any detectable number of extra deaths among that group. Crisis of mismanagement and poor prioritisation of those most in need of bed in winter,is the real crisis. 30% of A&E admissions on Friday and Saturdays are drunken injury related to that alone is a masssive reduction on the hospital system due to lockdown.


  • #1610
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,178 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    NPHET briefing pushed back to 7ish https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1347250676980723712?s=19


  • #1611
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    The number is so high it's taking them forever to type it out

    They must be on the cider.


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  • #1612
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Why is that a problem? Were you planning to have your tea with it?!

    Its more that it shows how unorganised they are. After 9 months of this surely they can release numbers at a set time everyday..


  • #1613
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    Is there any projection on the vaccines effect on QALY?

    Surely it’s going to pay for itself many times over

    I don't think you understand what you are trying to measure with quality adjusted life years. So I don't know how to answer the question because you aren't making sense.


  • #1614
    lawrencesummers
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    6368 positive.

    I wonder what the actual number would be if you tested close contacts.


  • #1615
    is_that_so
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    Reckless Abandonment wrote: »
    Its more that it shows how unorganised they are. After 9 months of this surely they can release numbers at a set time everyday..
    Data collation and checking doesn't conform to timetables especially with numbers of this size. I really can't see the fuss personally, it'll start when it does.


  • #1616
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Data collation and checking doesn't conform to timetables especially with numbers of this size. I really can't see the fuss personally, it'll start when it does.

    Why not. Its not like they are giving upto date figures anyway


  • #1617
    BlondeBomb
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    Any case numbers yet? Sorry may have missed it!


  • #1618
    CIARAN_BOYLE
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    BlondeBomb wrote: »
    Any case numbers yet? Sorry may have missed it!

    Nope. It hasn't been released.


  • #1619
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    emeldc wrote: »
    Will the country you’re traveling to let you in without it?

    PCR Tests will be required for travel most likely, not vaccines as the vaccines can't be rolled out for most by this Summer in EU (unlikely for the under 55's)

    means that it will add another €250 to €300 to the cost of travelling.

    more if you fail a Covid test obviously - especially on the way back from somewhere else....


  • #1620
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    BlondeBomb wrote: »
    Any case numbers yet? Sorry may have missed it!
    They haven't appeared yet. Should be presser on RTE News Now channel at about 7.


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  • #1621
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Data collation and checking doesn't conform to timetables especially with numbers of this size. I really can't see the fuss personally, it'll start when it does.


    Oh I agree.
    It's not Coronation Street!

    Just interested to see what they will say.


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