Covid 19 Part XXXII-215,743 ROI (4,137 deaths)111,166 NI (2,036 deaths)(22/02)Read OP

bodhrandude wrote: »

My brother messaged me from Scotland today he is due to get his vaccine on 10th February, he is 64 with no underlying conditions. Just wondering when we'll get to category 7 over here which is my group, I'm 55 with underlying conditions.

Probably April, maybe a bit earlier.

frozen3 wrote: »

Sorry to be blunt but Covid would have been a non issue then

The people it affects, the 65 years + would have all been dead anyway

1918 was the opposite, affected the young

These blanket statements are always a bit oversimplied. It's a spectrum. It's not like there's no risk for a 64 year old just because they're not that in 'that' age group. The IFR in early 60's is about 1%. Would you not be careful to try and avoid contracting COVID if you were 60?Because I would certainly be taking precautions not to get it if I was late 50's or early 60's. And that's just mortality, not to mention hospitalisation rate.

In the UK , about 100,000 people under 55 have been hospitalised so far, so it's not no risk for the late middle aged groups, even though they are not 'old'. The only age group in Europe that has not seen major increase in mortality rates since March, is under 45, death rate in children and young adults is actually below average since then. All other age groups have seen significant increase however.

1201 Swabs
6.6% positivity rate

decent results for a Wednesday, 28% lower swabs than last Wednesday

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

1201 Swabs
6.6% positivity rate

decent results for a Wednesday, 28% lower swabs than last Wednesday

I checked the site as it was updating and it had like 2500 swabs on 24kish tests and was like wtf happened.

Thankfully it's a better number than that

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

1201 Swabs
6.6% positivity rate

decent results for a Wednesday, 28% lower swabs than last Wednesday

Superb stuff - really coming down nicely. Another couple of weeks and we should be at a point where real planning towards reopening in March can start.

Positive swabs on the last 3 Wednesdays

13 Jan - 3932
20 Jan - 2786
27 Jan - 1668

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

GP referral data from yesterday. Downward trend continues, about 20% down on the same day last week.

https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2021-02-03_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf

That looks quite promising. Hopefully in a good position in 3 to 4 weeks. Maybe some good news on vaccines in that time. The data coming out over the last few days regarding how effective they are looks very encouraging

tigger123 wrote: »

Are we at the point yet that the resumption of contact testing is going to impact the daily figures?

Should already be in the data. They resumed close contact test referrals on Friday I think.

Turtwig wrote: »

I think you really need to go back 9 months and reundestand the argument. There's so many misconceptions in your post it's impossible to know where to begin.

Each time or resource a hospital spends treating a covid patient is time they can't treat or resource another non covid patient. If the idea is to let covid explode in hospitals and increase their capacity to absorb this explosion like a sponge then you're going to have a mess of serious illness, death and burnt out traumatised staff. Not just exclusively from covid either.

Also, fundamentally, you're trying to keep people out of hospital and being seriously ill in the first place.

caveat emptor wrote: »

That is awkward but there's nothing stopping any EU country from approving a vaccine. I guess we did it out of solidarity for being last.

We can approve any vaccine we like on an emergency basis but will have zero supplies until the EU supplies get released following EMA approval.

I suppose we could approve the Sputnik vaccine or one of the Chinese ones, and do a separate supply deal. But I'm not sure how many people would want one of those.

Why don't they announce each day with the death and new case figures how many people have been vaccinated that day? Mix some good news with the bad.

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Why don't they announce each day with the death and new case figures how many people have been vaccinated that day? Mix some good news with the bad.

There's no guarantee the vaccinated number would be perceived as good news.