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

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  • #5582
    hmmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,202 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    Tazz T wrote: »
    I can actually visualise him talking the head of astrazenaca and wringing his hands like Mr Burns from the Simpsons. it's a pathetic vision.

    I wonder does he even realise that there are Astrazenaca facilties in this country that can be penalised in response to their breaking contractual agreements.
    Astra Zeneca and all the other pharmas will learn a lesson during this pandemic. The next time - stay on the sidelines like many of the major players. Don't try and produce something unless it's at profit, don't try and meet stretch targets for production. Take your time, and even better, stay out of it entirely.

    It's incredibly short-sighted to be piling on top of AstraZeneca. Has anyone dragged in the CEOs of Sanofi, Merck, GSK etc and asked them WTF they have contributed?


  • #5583
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,472 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    567 swabs on 15,804, 3.6%


  • #5584
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,102 ✭✭✭✭fits


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    567 swabs on 15,804, 3.6%

    The wobble is looking like a trend. Blech.

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  • #5585
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,100 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    567 swabs on 15,804, 3.6%

    This day last week

    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1368215295471550466

    3000 more tests this week


  • #5586
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,061 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    prunudo wrote: »
    I think people are just going around breaking the restrictions behind closed doors.

    Going by the packed trolleys in dunnes earlier (it was like the run up to Christmas), there's going to be a lot of family gatherings and meals cooked for mother's day tomorrow.
    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Yes and with St Patricks day Wednesday there will be alot of house visits.

    Net effect of this will be to keep case numbers high(ish) and postpone the actual lifting of restrictions


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  • #5587
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,472 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    This day last week

    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1368215295471550466

    3000 more tests this week

    Yup 107 more swabs from nearly 3k more tests.

    Positivity holding steady

    I've not added up the total numbers for the week but pretty sure more tests this week than last


  • #5588
    Lucas Hood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,206 ✭✭✭Lucas Hood


    fits wrote: »
    The wobble is looking like a trend. Blech.

    Is it ? The positivity rate is staying around the same each day.
    You'd expect that to increase if things were getting out of control again.


  • #5589
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,472 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    Is it ? The positivity rate is staying around the same each day.
    You'd expect that to increase if things were getting out of control again.

    Worth noting GPs also not reporting an increase in referrals nor those clinically likely covid. This is usually the first group that would signal if things are going wrong in the community based on previous increases

    https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2021-03-12_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf

    I really do think we're seeing mass testing somewhere and they've not said, based on the counties reporting high ish case numbers last few days I'm guessing meat plants


  • #5590
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Worth nothing GPs also not reporting an increase in referrals nor those clinically likely covid. This is usually the first group that would signal if things are going wrong in the community

    https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2021-03-12_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf

    I really do think we're seeing mass testing somewhere and they've not said, based on the counties reporting high ish case numbers last few days I'm guessing meat plants
    May not be meatplants.
    The latest round of serial testing in meat plants found a positivity rate of 0.6% according to head of the HSE Paul Reid.


  • #5591
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,102 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    Is it ? The positivity rate is staying around the same each day.
    You'd expect that to increase if things were getting out of control again.

    Yes. At very least it’s a plateau.

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  • #5592
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,102 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    May not be meatplants.

    I’d like to know where it’s coming from all the same.

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  • #5593
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,472 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    May not be meatplants.

    Interesting. Only a hunch on my part given the numbers reported from Kildare and Meath last few days and each time it's happened in the past it was those settings.

    All the same there is some sort of mass testing going on as GP data isn't backing any increase


  • #5594
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    fits wrote: »
    Yes. At very least it’s a plateau.

    I think we've had a few "plateaus" the past few weeks.
    Christ I'm going to say it... Next week is crucial lol.


  • #5595
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,237 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    Net effect of this will be to keep case numbers high(ish) and postpone the actual lifting of restrictions

    We are now entering year 2 of missed celebrations, second mother's day under restrictions and st. Patricks day, Easter, birthdays all to follow. The leaks and mood music from government is another 10 weeks without seeing family or friends. People have had enough and will meet people if they feel they need to.
    As has been pointed out many times, if you don't give people hope or a goal and constantly use the stick to get your way eventually people will stop listening and do their own thing.


  • #5596
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,472 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    I think we've had a few "plateaus" the past few weeks.
    Christ I'm going to say it... Next week is crucial lol.

    Indeed we did, 2 or 3 weeks ago it looked like it was stalling a little and then the decrease accelerated again the following week & last week.

    Thought this was interesting

    https://twitter.com/RiochtConor2/status/1370732682209026051?s=19


  • #5597
    fm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 667 ✭✭✭fm


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Worth noting GPs also not reporting an increase in referrals nor those clinically likely covid. This is usually the first group that would signal if things are going wrong in the community based on previous increases

    https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2021-03-12_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf

    I really do think we're seeing mass testing somewhere and they've not said, based on the counties reporting high ish case numbers last few days I'm guessing meat plants

    Ronan Glynn saying there was an increase in gp referrals this week

    https://mobile.twitter.com/roinnslainte/status/1370457338566557696


  • #5598
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,102 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    I think we've had a few "plateaus" the past few weeks.
    Christ I'm going to say it... Next week is crucial lol.

    We actually haven’t really. The rate of decrease has slowed down but the trend was always downwards. It’s not in recent days.

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  • #5599
    Tazz T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    jackboy wrote: »
    This is fantasy. We don’t have the power to restrict one company in the way you suggest. Comparing the Irish industries that the government has shut down to potentially doing the same to multi nationals is a fallacy.

    Okay then. We'll just shut down huge swathes of Irish businesses and industries that have done nothing wrong and let Astrazenaca to do what it wants, and not so much as penalise it for not fulfilling legally binding contractual obligations.


  • #5600
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Interesting. Only a hunch on my part given the numbers reported from Kildare and Meath last few days and each time it's happened in the past it was those settings.

    All the same there is some sort of mass testing going on as GP data isn't backing any increase
    Good point with Kildare and Meath. There's definitely something driving the cases there. Back during the LOKDown, well before that, there was reports in the media about meat plants and direct provision outbreaks, haven't heard much lately. The lower the cases get, the more noticable outbreaks skew the figures.


  • #5601
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Indeed we did, 2 or 3 weeks ago it looked like it was stalling a little and then the decrease accelerated again the following week & last week.

    Thought this was interesting

    https://twitter.com/RiochtConor2/status/1370732682209026051?s=19

    Yea it is hard to know what will happen tbh. Precarious position at the minute. My own opinion is that the rate will stay roughly as it for a long time (400-600 daily)


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  • #5602
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,472 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    last 7 days: 3695 positive swabs from 99805 tests, previous 7 days: 3892 positive swabs from 95985 tests


  • #5603
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,472 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Yea it is hard to know what will happen tbh. Precarious position at the minute. My own opinion is that the rate will stay roughly as it for a long time (400-600 daily)

    Wouldn't discount it tbh. Just in my own experience there's more movement, traffic much heavier in the evenings in and out of work and a few more starting to come back into the office.


  • #5604
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,799 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    fits wrote: »
    We actually haven’t really. The rate of decrease has slowed down but the trend was always downwards. It’s not in recent days.

    I am seeing a lot more activity lately and I think young people are mixing a lot more - it's hard to blame them really. When MM did the press rounds a couple of weeks ago talking about '9 more weeks' and then 'midsummer' for leisure industry, I think people just lost the will.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #5605
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,063 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Wouldn't discount it tbh. Just in my own experience there's more movement, traffic much heavier in the evenings in and out of work and a few more starting to come back into the office.

    And we all suffer cos the government are too cowardly to enforce people not going back into the office. WFH should be mandatory if you can (and most can) and companies fined if they bring people in.


  • #5606
    mightyreds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »
    I am seeing a lot more activity lately and I think young people are mixing a lot more - it's hard to blame them really. When MM did the press rounds a couple of weeks ago talking about '9 more weeks' and then 'midsummer' for leisure industry, I think people just lost the will.

    I was actually going to write up was today the tipping point, tesco in naas is jammed, like a day leading to Christmas in there, they are also letting in about 10 times more than the previous lockdowns the aisles are jammed. I gave up on B&Q the queue was so big.


  • #5607
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    titan18 wrote: »
    And we all suffer cos the government are too cowardly to enforce people not going back into the office. WFH should be mandatory if you can (and most can) and companies fined if they bring people in.
    How do you do that exactly and who'd enforce it? We have no laws for it and even if we had, proving someone should work from home would be a legal nightmare.


  • #5608
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    last 7 days: 3695 positive swabs from 99805 tests, previous 7 days: 3892 positive swabs from 95985 tests

    Only a 5% reduction. Better than no reduction though!
    Hopefully just a few blips in the week.


  • #5609
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,063 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    is_that_so wrote: »
    How do you do that exactly and who'd enforce it? We have no laws for it and even if we had, proving someone should work from home would be a legal nightmare.

    True, but you can create laws, and all you have to do if you see companies bringing people in is see whether that person was working at home at other points as it's pretty clear if you were able to work at home over the last 2 months you still can now.

    It's a pretty sh1t scenario where companies can be flouting the rules and resulting in other companies not being able to reopen at all.


  • #5610
    blowitupref
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,184 ✭✭✭blowitupref


    fits wrote: »
    We actually haven’t really. The rate of decrease has slowed down but the trend was always downwards. It’s not in recent days.

    We are at another slowed down trend.

    Positive Swabs last 7 days 3729 compared to the previous 7 days 3898

    3000 extra tests this Saturday compared to last Saturday a big increase thankfully only 100 extra positive swabs.


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  • #5611
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »
    I am seeing a lot more activity lately and I think young people are mixing a lot more - it's hard to blame them really. When MM did the press rounds a couple of weeks ago talking about '9 more weeks' and then 'midsummer' for leisure industry, I think people just lost the will.

    Was my thought also... People could manage another "few weeks" but that week of leaks where the talk was another 2 months, was a step too far.


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