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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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  • #4292
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Encouraging positivity rate, Only 17k tests. We should start testing close contacts again if this drops further
    I'm guessing that the extra capacity will be used on nursing homes, which they are starting again tomorrow.


  • #4293
    TonyMaloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    Cerveza wrote: »
    Could be worse.

    No, we've been the worst.


  • #4294
    0gac3yjefb5sv7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,947 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1349014780074463234

    Does that mean 2.7k cases today?


  • #4295
    PmMeUrDogs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭PmMeUrDogs


    MattS1 wrote: »
    Does that mean 2.7k cases today?

    Still around 1k backlog cases so who knows?


  • #4296
    alice14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭alice14


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Obviously some people in their 30s and 40s will have compromised immune systems and have underlying health issues. The sheer amount of people in the under 50 rage testing positive will lead to some ending up in ICU. Would be interesting to see some figures on the numbers. I would imagine the vast majority of people ending up in ICU will still be older people.

    In the hospital I work in we currently have 9 in ICU, the majority are under 60. 3 in their 60s, 3 in their 50s, 2 in their 40s and one aged 30. This wasn’t that different from the 1st wave. Generally speaking if you’re over 75 you don’t get sent to ICU.

    I would be interested to see what it’s like across the country.

    Thankfully the majority of the people that have been admitted to our icu have been discharged but your recovery doesn’t end there. It takes a long time to get back to normal following a prolonged stay in ICU, and some never do, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.


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  • #4297
    kilkenny31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kilkenny31


    Gruffalux wrote: »
    Between being top in the world with Covid increases and highest number of mothers and babies living in state-run homes which had huge infant mortality historically, it has not been a great look for Ireland in global media this week.

    America is making us not look to bad tho.


  • #4298
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭fits


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1349014780074463234

    JP Liz

    No offence to you at all but you always post these links two pages later than everyone else :D


  • #4299
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭fits


    alice14 wrote: »
    In the hospital I work in we currently have 9 in ICU, the majority are under 60. 3 in their 60s, 3 in their 50s, 2 in their 40s and one aged 30. This wasn’t that different from the 1st wave. Generally speaking if you’re over 75 you don’t get sent to ICU.

    I would be interested to see what it’s like across the country.

    Thankfully the majority of the people that have been admitted to our icu have been discharged but your recovery doesn’t end there. It takes a long time to get back to normal following a prolonged stay in ICU, and some never do, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.


    I think I’m actually developing a fear of ICU. I’ve had a fair few operations and procedures in my lifetime and can imagine it all too easily. I’d say keeping your head together in there as a patient would be very difficult ( if conscious)


  • #4300
    Frank Bullitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,995 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Diabhalta wrote: »
    Oh yeah, how do I swim in my house, how much it costs to build a sauna? ... there's plenty of things you can't do at home without the right equipment.

    Since when is a sauna considered a workout?

    As for things you can do at home, do burpees (these are free to all) until you can't, get a resistance band set and use them off a door, push ups and the variations, variations of plank, pistol squats or air squats, run within your 5km radius, yoga, get a TRX kit and use the free videos on the TRX site.

    No excuses really.


  • #4301
    Dempo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Just seeing a nursing home in stradbally, Laois has 50 positive cases out of 66 residents, just awful, they'd managed to be covid free since pandemic started and shockingly only 19 days for vaccine to be distributed to residents.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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  • #4302
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Gruffalux wrote: »
    Between being top in the world with Covid increases and highest number of mothers and babies living in state-run homes which had huge infant mortality historically, it has not been a great look for Ireland in global media this week.

    That mother and baby thing is completely harrowing. The fact it existed and nobody thought maybe in the eyes of christ this is not compatible is beyond me.

    But yeah we don't do fines or quarantine because it's not in our culture.


  • #4303
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Car99 wrote: »
    We'll be the best boys and girls in Europe again in a few weeks after being the worst in the world yesterday. The media are so fcuking annoying with RTE top of the pile with their blasting misery headlines when it is all going wrong. When it starts to improve they still try to make it look miserable. Fcukers.
    Hang on.. were people not whinging the other day that they had been misled into thinking we were doing well in November and that's why they went full idiot for Christmas?


  • #4304
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    HSE think we can still do it on ICU up to 350.

    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1349049266346618883


  • #4305
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,449 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1349052702404313089?s=19


  • #4306
    0gac3yjefb5sv7
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    is_that_so wrote: »
    HSE think we can still do it on ICU up to 350.

    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1349049266346618883

    Wasn't ICU capacity at 250 last March? I'd expect at least 500 available seen as we had a year to prepare.


  • #4307
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    46 additional deaths confirmed.

    3,086 new cases confirmed.


  • #4308
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Are there any studies being done on blood type, or things like that worldwide to see if there are any learnings from that? e.g. all concentrated on certain blood types or anything...?


  • #4309
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,300 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Massive deaths today, RIP.


  • #4310
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,178 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    Not the most glamorous of shots but good to see Moderna doses arriving

    https://twitter.com/DonnellyStephen/status/1349044903431577604


  • #4311
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭harr


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Massive deaths today, RIP.
    Some big numbers again being reported in nursing homes unfortunately


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  • #4312
    d51984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭d51984


    Jesus Christ, the amount of deaths! :(

    Its a disgrace Joe!



  • #4313
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,144 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    The lag in deaths now coming to the fore.


  • #4314
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,300 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    Are there any studies being done on blood type, or things like that worldwide to see if there are any learnings from that? e.g. all concentrated on certain blood types or anything...?


    Type O is supposed to be best at dealing with it from studies I was reading some months back.


  • #4315
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    MattS1 wrote: »
    Wasn't ICU capacity at 250 last March? I'd expect at least 500 available seen as we had a year to prepare.
    It's now around 300 I think but then there's the surge plan. As for 500 beds you'd need the staff to do it and it's not cheap.


  • #4316
    Always_Running
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Always_Running


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1349052702404313089?s=19
    Sadly like April most deaths in nursing/care homes it seems.

    630 more cases than the 24 hour swab count


  • #4317
    zinfandel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭zinfandel


    Dempo1 wrote: »
    Just seeing a nursing home in stradbally, Laois has 50 positive cases out of 66 residents, just awful, they'd managed to be covid free since pandemic started and shockingly only 19 days for vaccine to be distributed to residents.

    that is awful, too little , too late , we are going to see cases go way down over next few weeks, but deaths could be huge for months to come, you only need to look at countries with cases similar to what we have now with deaths each day anything from 100 to 300


  • #4318
    PmMeUrDogs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭PmMeUrDogs


    Horrendous death figures, may they rest in peace.


    Cautiously optimistic about the lower case numbers and swabs, but I fear the deaths will ramp up now from our enormous infection rates over the last few weeks.


  • #4319
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    1692 in hospital - down 8 on this morning.
    158 in ICU.


  • #4320
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    PmMeUrDogs wrote: »
    Cautiously optimistic about the lower case numbers and swabs, but I fear the deaths will ramp up now from our enormous infection rates over the last few weeks.
    Would make it very cautious - they're still not testing asymptomatic contacts, right?


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  • #4321
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭harr


    zinfandel wrote: »
    that is awful, too little , too late , we are going to see cases go way down over next few weeks, but deaths could be huge for months to come, you only need to look at countries with cases similar to what we have now with deaths each day anything from 100 to 300
    Still can’t understand after a year living with covid that nursing homes are still having huge outbreaks, is this down to poor procedure in the homes or how at stage can that happen..


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