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

Canada having issues as well,
https://twitter.com/HeatherCTV/status/1347584246748246017?s=20

HalfAndHalf wrote: »

On the basis that there’s 5 million people here and 66 million in the U.K., if you times today’s cases by 13 to have a comparative populace, ours equate to 107,000 cases.

I’d say it’s much more rampant here currently and there doesn’t seem to be much staying at home going on either.

No, ours equate to 65k + 39k backlog

What in the everlasting f*ck is going on with the numbers? Data shows backlog, the authorities say no backlog.

Wolf359f wrote: »

Understandable, it's important for people to realise when they see 1000+ in hospital, around 45% of them are under 65. When you hear headlines state "we're seeing more younger people presenting with covid in hospital", it almost comes across as it being more serious of a dose compared to last year, when in fact it's just more younger people are contracting covid.

The origin of this was a reply to somebody who stated that we should vaccinate the elderly and the vulnerable and otherwise let it go through the community and open up .
I was stating that young people are sick with Covid in hospital and more if infection rates allowed to go to a higher level .
Hence this commentary .
We may see more young people in hospital relative to older as vaccinations in elderly take effect , but we may also be seeing the start of an increase due to higher infectivity / viral load of the UK variant , or increased severe illness if the SA strain spreads .

mcburns07 wrote: »

Source for this?

George Lee saying it a few minutes ago and they said yesterday that there's no backlog either.

Confusing stuff

funnydoggy wrote: »

George Lee saying it a few minutes ago and they said yesterday that there's no backlog either.

Confusing stuff

Maybe their definition of backlog is something along the lines of >1 week since positive swab? Who knows :pac:

Goldengirl wrote: »

The origin of this was a reply to somebody who stated that we should vaccinate the elderly and the vulnerable and otherwise let it go through the community and open up .
I was stating that young people are sick with Covid in hospital and more if infection rates allowed to go toa higher level .
Hence this commentary .
We may see more young people in hospital relative to older as vaccinations in elderly take effect , but we may also be seeing the start of an increase due to higher infectivity / viral load of the UK variant , or increased severe illness if the SA strain spreads .

Ah my bad. I do agree with you. People assuming once 65+ are vaccinated it will mean getting back to a little bit of normality, which as you alluded to 45% of those in hospital are under 65.

There's no reason at all that those SA cases needed to get into the country. I really just do not understand the lack of security at the airports, like it is absolute insanity.

It is so frustrating when you think that you are trying to do your bit to get it under control and you hear things like this. It's just like what is the point when the government literally allowed the thing to be imported from abroad?

Donnelly saying he's been holding back vaccines as a buffer. Holding back giving out vaccines...

Wolf359f wrote: »

Past 14 days, the hospitalization rate of those aged under 65 was 1.08%
The 14 days up to 20/10/20 that rate was 1.3%

You're looking at the % of those people hospitalized under 65 as a total of all people hospitalized. Yes that has increased due to the higher incidence rate in the under 65's.

I'm not taking away from the seriousness of all hospitalizations (regardless of age), but the higher % of the hospitalizations in the under 65's is far better than having a higher % in the over 65's. (apart from children, that's must be an even more horrible and scary experience)

I only deal with what I see as I have said to you before . Not percentages .
I leave percentages and swab numbers to those who have a better grasp than I do, and some here are very good posting numbers and statistics day after day . I appreciate them as I would not be confident to do it justice . Thanks spookwoman and majcos.

As my previous post should have clarified the original statement was to deny that " it was just a disease of the elderly " type of post and that the higher the rate of infection , the higher amounts of younger people affected, and yes hopefully not as badly as over 65s , but it is still an issue .
No child or even young person is admitted unless they are quite ill , so any hospitalised case is treated as seriously as the next one .
Any person can take a turn for the worse fairly rapidly with Covid , so the less of any age requiring hospitalisation the better .

loughside wrote: »

Terrible.
As an aside we here in Northern Ireland have started vaccinating our more vulnerable a second time already..


...but then again we`ve left the EU, thrown our little blue flags in the skip and are paddling our own canoe now, thankfully it may have saved several lives.


Really hope you folk get supply sorted out with the EU soon.

Seriously hope so for all your sakes up there!
Your numbers have been unbelievable in the last few months.

Jaysis, when the US are appalled at our infection rate...

https://twitter.com/laineydoyle/status/1347642447510306823?s=20

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

They didn’t say that, they said they were only a day behind now I.e. a backlog of 5 or 6 thousand. Some of journalists don’t seem to be able to understand English.

Ah right, my apologies. Still very confusing

from gov.ie

As of 7 January 2021, the reporting of cases on CIDR has caught up with the positive laboratory results. In the context of continuing high daily numbers of positive lab results, the lag period between positive lab results being issued and cases being reported on CIDR will generally be 24 to 48 hours. This is the expected time interval for processing and validation of laboratory results and generating cases on CIDR.