Covid 19 Part XXXIII-231,484 ROI(4,610 deaths)116,197 NI (2,107 deaths)(23/03)Read OP

normanoffside wrote: »

NPHET basically write the RTE news and these are the stories they want to be published.

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1367551657840685063

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1367541421750841350

Wtf!
Some of ye should just ..switch off the news and the briefings if you don't want to know !

There have been four mothers who have lost their babies due to infection from a preventable virus.
Placentitis and amniotic infections can cause miscarriage and still birth from other severe infections .
As it happens these were caused by Covid , or coincided with maternal Covid infection .
Why would pregnant women all over the country not want to know this ?

And as for the students in NUIG , it shows how fast this virus can spread, no harm to show it in graphic form .
Her question about deaths could very well be answered " no deaths yet" as some of those infections seeded into vulnerable people .
This commentary is beyond ridiculous and beneath you

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Didn't poster StephenJMCD say on here this week that mass testing in a major Irish hospital garnered just 4 positive cases?

I thought Covid in Irish hospitals was under control now. There's some tests I've been putting off, but I can't for too much longer

Golden Girl?

That is true .
As long as you haven't been at any student house or cemetery parties recently ?

With numbers getting low again its a matter of time before "suspected cases" come back in the headlines

Goldengirl wrote: »

Wtf!
Some of ye should just ..switch off the news and the briefings if you don't want to know !

There have been four mothers who have lost their babies due to infection from a preventable virus.
Placentitis and amniotic infections can cause miscarriage and still birth from other severe infections .
As it happens these were caused by Covid .
Why would pregnant women all over the country not want to know this ?

I can find one research paper referring to Covid Placentitis. It’s an Irish research paper. Generally it is considered unwise to draw conclusions from a case study. Now many over next few weeks and months we will start seeing similar cases being reported from all over the world. Then we will have more concrete evidence that Covid is causing Still births.

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Genuine question but do you know is there any difference in behaviour in winter versus behaviour in summer regarding socialising?
People have booked trips away assuming they will be allowed to do so, what will be open to entertain them is another matter.

I don't mean for this to sound flippant but it's outside my area of expertise. It may have no effect, I am just surprised the media is on its usual news grind about this stuff.

caveat emptor wrote: »

The advice has been fairly clear that the risk is extremely low to this kind of thing. There is nothing to say this has changed. 4 cases of something yet unexplained is still very small relative to amount of other births.

I'd say wait and see and no reason to panic.

equally I wouldn't dismiss what a coroner is saying but even if true may be extremely rare.

I might be accused of scaremongering here but I'm not a medical expert. If someone is pregnant and gets an illness they should consider checking in with their obstetrician.

Id say the same about if someone has covid. Check in with your specialist. You don't have to rush to do it but mention it at an appointment and ask them if there's a risk you should be concerned about.

Goldengirl wrote: »

Yes but the implication is in that post was all HCW infection which is astoundingly stupid.
As a HCW I will not accept FB like posts and anecdotes that undermine all the good work done in our hospitals.
Every effort is made to prevent transmission but it was very difficult to prevent when community transmission was so high.
Anywhere you get breakouts one of the questions people should be asking is could this be prevented by reducing those infected in the first place.
Impossible in a hospital environment.

Lol, will you look at that arrogance, you won’t accept it?!

Whether you accept it or not, hospitals have been swarming with it, due to in part the negligence of HCWs. I know because I was there, got the T-shirt and am still angry with the carry-on I saw, almost a year later. You can find my post of 8th April 2020 and read all about it. I’ll summarise for you here, just because your post just there really annoyed me.

Early April, I went in to a major hospital for an essential work assignment. Never offered any measures or protections, fine. HCWs all around me huddling together without a care in the world, uh. :rolleyes: ok... Informed that a suspected case is in attendance, ok. Then, a nurse comes up to me, no mask, no visor, nothing, and, in order to pass an information?, she comes right up to my face, and breathes all over it! Stunning stuff, and stunned I was. Just did my job like a robot and went home. Three days later, of course, feeling activity in the lymph nodes. Fourth day, wake up with a very sore throat and wiped out, and stay like that for a week. Self-isolate for two weeks. No testing possible, as one has to have two major symptoms to be tested at that point. Were I not so healthy in the first place, it could have been much worse. But HWCs for the win! And never let there be said anything contradicting that! /s

Hospital numbers at 8pm

Total 427 (down from 472 last night)
ICU 103 (down from 108 last night)

Last Thursday
Total 585
ICU 140

marno21 wrote: »

That’s an enormous drop. We could potentially see sub 400 in hospital tomorrow before the weekend and sub 100 in ICU.

We were told that hospital numbers were a key metric for relaxing restrictions. This is definitely helping.

Yes that certainly will help

ICU could still be over 50 by Easter as it's slower to move

Hopefully cases will keep decreasing

One thing that apparently will be used which nobody in the general public can do anything about is the progress with the vaccination program

With the supply issues very hard to see us being on schedule by Easter

marno21 wrote: »

That’s an enormous drop. We could potentially see sub 400 in hospital tomorrow before the weekend and sub 100 in ICU.

We were told that hospital numbers were a key metric for relaxing restrictions. This is definitely helping.

386 in hospital when level 5 restrictions was eased May last year, we might get close to that figure tomorrow evening.