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

majcos wrote: »

HSE operations report 9/1.

Covid cases hospitalised 1353 as of 8pm - increase from 1214.

ICU confirmed Covid cases 120 as of 6.30pm - increase from 107.
3 deaths in ICU 24 hours up to 8am on 9/1.
Confirmed Covid cases ventilated 71 as of 6.30pm on 9/1 - increase from 65.
Available ICU beds 37 as of 6.30pm on 9/1. 9 ICUs with no available beds.

it looks like there’ll be 2000 in hospital by the time hospitalisations peak.

https://twitter.com/antcon7062/status/1348018386769498122?s=21

Video here in Irish Times from ICU in St Vincent’s

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/inside-an-irish-icu-we-are-nowhere-near-the-covid-19-peak-1.4454331?mode=amp&fbclid=IwAR3EzqwraF0K9M8oUGKPti-6Ie2Un-bSGHT5NKCWxyPUnbLmglgBSpFyeBA

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

How does the day of the week reduce the positivity rate of the swabs taken?

For a good while weekends were seen as lower testing activity. That is probably not the case now. I've learnt to accept the data we get rather than indulging in extended Excel formulas to work out what's happening behind the scenes. Crucial numbers are hospitals and ICU occupancy. Those two and the 5/7 day rate will determine when we can see any changes to restrictions. On a positive note what we seem to be seeing is the peak or near peak in cases.

Asdfgh2020 wrote: »

Think people should realise that 1 in 86 equates to 1.16% of population with the ‘virus’ and 98.84% without it.

Similarly 1 in 30 means 3.3% with and 96.7% without

Phew that statisitic gave me a shock i can chill out now :cool:

Imo

We're past the peak and the big mixing period was the run up to Christmas as peopled piled into town for restaurants, drinks and shopping, rather than Christmas day stuff.

fits wrote: »

Past the cases peak maybe but there’s still a tsunami heading for the hospitals.

Yep, hospitals wont peak for possibly 2 weeks going by previous lag periods. Grim.

I have been calling for testing at airports for a long time.

It’s only now that it has come in, and it’s limited in its necessity depending on where you are coming from.

We have the Uk variant here and the SA variant, we are very slow to detect it and it would explain some bit the huge increase of late. We know they most likely had to arrive by air travel. If we had testing in place it could have caught that.

So we are where we are, and we have to deal with it. That’s fine, but we also need to learn from this mistake.

But what’s stopping a US variant, or a German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Variant or any other variant from happening????? Not much I presume is the answer, or better again scientists just don’t really know.

SO WHY ARE WE NOT BRINGING IN TESTING FOR ALL TRAVELERS??????

lawrencesummers wrote: »

I have been calling for testing at airports for a long time.

It’s only now that it has come in, and it’s limited in its necessity depending on where you are coming from.

We have the Uk variant here and the SA variant, we are very slow to detect it and it would explain some bit the huge increase of late. We know they most likely had to arrive by air travel. If we had testing in place it could have caught that.

So we are where we are, and we have to deal with it. That’s fine, but we also need to learn from this mistake.

But what’s stopping a US variant, or a German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Variant or any other variant from happening????? Not much I presume is the answer, or better again scientists just don’t really know.

SO WHY ARE WE NOT BRINGING IN TESTING FOR ALL TRAVELERS??????

How come we can say UK variant SA variant and can't say chinese virus

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Sick people at home must also be scared . Imagine being at home very sick with covid or looking after a loved one and hearing the hospitals are in crisis
It must be petrifying to hear that when afraid you might need it

Let's not panic too much yet.

Hospitals experience crisis every winter.

They are still not anywhere near people on corridors or nowhere to treat them.

screamer wrote: »

I feel sorry for them, as the nurses take the brunt of it all in the hospitals. They’re only human too, and no, I don’t think it’s their job just get on with it. They are at higher risk of catching Covid too. Read this morning hospitals are conserving oxygen, just grim all around.

If it's not their job who's is it then?????

caveat emptor wrote: »

I'd agree with that. It's actually increased faster in the last week vs the previous week.

Making October look flat.

The only thing we might have going for us is that the lag between cases and hospitalisation seems inexplicably narrow.

I can't get my head around what's going on

fits wrote: »

Past the cases peak maybe but there’s still a tsunami heading for the hospitals.

A tsunami?

How exciting!

fits wrote: »

This is not the same. Not at all. Usually other care continues but everything is being cancelled now to make way for covid. You can’t have covid patients on corridors. I was in one of the regional hospitals during the week. Was there last winter too before this all kicked off and it’s a completely different environment now.

Yeah I was working in a hospital during the week and I commented here it was quite and a lot of staff standing around chatting.

Didn't see the covid ward so obviously different.

I'm just saying no point in panicking and loosing our marbles.

I think the health system will manage this.

It will be a challenge of course but let's try stay positive.