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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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  • #9542
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,595 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Eod100 wrote: »
    Anyone know the rationale for not being able to have symptoms to do the walk up tests? Is it about trying to pick up asymptomatic cases only or managing how many people are able to get one?

    If you have symptoms they want you under care from your doctor.

    If you don't have a doctor you need to get one.

    Not show up at a test centre and self treat.


  • #9543
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    covidrelease wrote: »
    Were the 4 who died all old and ill anyway or were they young and healthy with no medical conditions of note?

    I know three really old people, 2 terminally ill with cancer, the other with a lot of issues and got covid in hospital, they all died.

    I know another 78 yo who died who was reasonably healthy for his age.

    Of those 4 I would say 1, at best, died of covid.

    I know someone who had a long term heart condition and who sadly died in a car accident. Are you suggesting that the stated reason for their death on the certificate should have been heart disease rather than accidental death?

    Afaik Irish death certificates require the coroner to record the certified cause of death and / or duration of the illness directly responsible .

    Someone may be ill - but that might not be what kills them.


  • #9544
    covidrelease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭covidrelease


    gozunda wrote: »
    I know someone who had a long term heart condition and who sadly died in a car accident. Are you suggesting that the stated reason for their death on the certificate should have been heart disease rather than accidental death?

    Afaik Irish death certificates require the coroner to record the certified cause of death and / or duration of the illness directly responsible .

    Someone may be ill - but that might not be what kills them.

    You are comparing apples and oranges there.

    The point is these people were very ill, and covid merely shortened the inevitable.

    Of the 4 I know I would say 2 by 6 months, 1 by a year at best and the last one well yes he died because of he caught covid.


  • #9545
    Lucas Hood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,206 ✭✭✭Lucas Hood


    694 positive swabs, 3.47% positivity on 19,979 tests.
    7 day test positivity is 3.9%.

    - Wednesday, March 24th 2021
    #COVID19Ireland

    Good positivity rate.


  • #9546
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Just a big Thank you both from me and my family . I really hope you both get a break soon .

    Cheers! Most of the credit is with her, she's a doctor and very much frontline in A&E. Most of the people we know who've gotten sick are her colleagues, including 1 of the doctors working in the Mater who died). I've been non-frontline and WFH.

    That said, she's been fully vaccinated for a while now and I'm gonna be waiting for months yet, so swings and roundabouts... :pac:


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  • #9547
    MerlinSouthDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭MerlinSouthDub


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    694 positive swabs, 3.47% positivity on 19,979 tests.
    7 day test positivity is 3.9%.

    - Wednesday, March 24th 2021
    #COVID19Ireland

    Good positivity rate.

    I was expecting worse numbers. Yeah, it's not great, but there has been a big increase in referrals (up 40% per Paul Reid) and only a modest increase in cases.


  • #9548
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,399 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    MerlinSouthDub wrote:
    I was expecting worse numbers. Yeah, it's not great, but there has been a big increase in referrals (up 40% per Paul Reid) and only a modest increase in cases.
    A big increase in referrals is a concern.


  • #9549
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,512 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    694 positive swabs, 3.47% positivity on 19,979 tests.
    7 day test positivity is 3.9%.

    - Wednesday, March 24th 2021
    #COVID19Ireland

    Good positivity rate.

    Very good, 5k more tests than last week resulting in only 21 more positive swabs.


  • #9550
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,613 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    covidrelease wrote: »
    You are comparing apples and oranges there.

    The point is these people were very ill, and covid merely shortened the inevitable.

    Of the 4 I know I would say 2 by 6 months, 1 by a year at best and the last one well yes he died because of he caught covid.

    So you agree that they all died when they did because of Covid.


  • #9551
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,512 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    MerlinSouthDub wrote: »
    I was expecting worse numbers. Yeah, it's not great, but there has been a big increase in referrals (up 40% per Paul Reid) and only a modest increase in cases.

    Can be as big an increase in referrals as they want if it isn't giving out larger number of positives. 5k more tests than this day last week giving just 21 more positives.

    Test more find more, root it out


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  • #9552
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,595 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    694 positive swabs, 3.47% positivity on 19,979 tests.
    7 day test positivity is 3.9%.

    - Wednesday, March 24th 2021
    #COVID19Ireland

    Good positivity rate.

    Almost 20,000 tests. I wonder what testing capacity is at now. It was around 25k tests in January.


  • #9553
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,634 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    694 positive swabs, 3.47% positivity on 19,979 tests.
    7 day test positivity is 3.9%.

    - Wednesday, March 24th 2021
    #COVID19Ireland

    Good positivity rate.

    I was expecting worse based on the GP data.
    7 Days average of swabs:
    24/03: 590
    17/03: 543
    10/03: 515
    03/03: 644


  • #9554
    pauldry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,609 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Yesterday had 150 more swabs than cases so could be the guts of 700 cases today.


  • #9555
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    5k more tests than this day last week giving just 21 more positives


    I very much like this stat

    Still though, June/July can't come soon enough


  • #9556
    Benimar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭Benimar


    Tomorrow is an important day I feel. Some of Monday’s referrals may be tested Tuesday. Results got today, which are the numbers reported tomorrow.

    Hopefully people heeded the early warning on the 11th and have pulled back a bit. Might stop the increase.


  • #9557
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    covidrelease wrote: »
    You are comparing apples and oranges there.

    The point is these people were very ill, and covid merely shortened the inevitable.

    Of the 4 I know I would say 2 by 6 months, 1 by a year at best and the last one well yes he died because of he caught covid.

    Nope. In the example given- the point is the persons illness didn't kill them .

    The person who I referred to would have been deemed " ill" compared to someone without his condition. Yet he died as a result of a car accident and his condition was not indicated in the cause of death in anyway

    Did the car accident "merely shorten the inevitable"?


  • #9558
    pauldry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,609 ✭✭✭pauldry


    One thing I very much dont like is this 5K limit.

    Instead of being able to get to the beach for a walk which is 10k away Im sitting at home picking up germs. Why is Ireland the only country in the world that has this? Why dont we do the night curfews like other countries?

    Is it coz that Lehane buck on the news who stands outside all time time would be out of a job?


  • #9559
    MerlinSouthDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭MerlinSouthDub


    eagle eye wrote: »
    A big increase in referrals is a concern.

    Not it if it doesn't turn into a big increase in cases....


  • #9560
    Lucas Hood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,206 ✭✭✭Lucas Hood


    Benimar wrote: »
    Tomorrow is an important day I feel. Some of Monday’s referrals may be tested Tuesday. Results got today, which are the numbers reported tomorrow.

    Hopefully people heeded the early warning on the 11th and have pulled back a bit. Might stop the increase.

    I would be worried if the positivity rate was increasing but it is staying the same generally.


  • #9561
    Messi19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Messi19


    pauldry wrote: »
    Yesterday had 150 more swabs than cases so could be the guts of 700 cases today.

    Wednesday is often bump day


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  • #9562
    redmgar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭redmgar


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I very much like this stat

    Still though, June/July can't come soon enough

    Is the the amount of tests irrelevant?
    The only number that's is of any consequence is the positive cases?


  • #9563
    Rebelbrowser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    If you have symptoms they want you under care from your doctor.

    If you don't have a doctor you need to get one.

    Not show up at a test centre and self treat.

    Makes sense but still think most people will be surprised by that. They will need to publicly explain the thinking behind these pop up centres to get people to go


  • #9564
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,421 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    redmgar wrote: »
    Is the the amount of tests irrelevant?
    The only number that's is of any consequence is the positive cases?

    No, the more you test the more you find. So testing lots not only saves lives, but also gives us an idea of the positivity rate, and the more we do that, the more we can be confidant of that rate.


  • #9565
    TobyHolmes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭TobyHolmes


    predictions for 5th April restrictions?

    Level 3 county wide lockdown with hospitality opened?

    how likely?


  • #9566
    timsey tiger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭timsey tiger


    pauldry wrote: »
    Yesterday had 150 more swabs than cases so could be the guts of 700 cases today.

    Could be the guts of 850 today.


  • #9567
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    redmgar wrote: »
    The only number that's is of any consequence is the positive cases?


    Some would argue the only number that's is of any consequence is the positivity rate

    And - in some ways - they'd have a point tbh

    But sure, who the fcuk knows at this stage ;)


  • #9568
    Normal One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Normal One


    I reckon that some overly cautious hay-fever sufferers are ringing their doc who in turn sends them for a test. That's where the increase in tests and referrals is coming from.


  • #9569
    redmgar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭redmgar


    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    No, the more you test the more you find. So testing lots not only saves lives, but also gives us an idea of the positivity rate, and the more we do that, the more we can be confidant of that rate.

    Fair enough.
    Realistically, the only thing ending restrictions is the vaccine. We are just going to plod on for the next couple of months under levels 4/5 until a mix of the summer and the vaccine brings back normality.


  • #9570
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,232 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Normal One wrote: »
    I reckon that some overly cautious hay-fever sufferers are ringing their doc who in turn sends them for a test. That's where the increase in tests and referrals is coming from.

    The question is that resulting in the detection of near asymptomatic cases that would've been missed?


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  • #9571
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    TobyHolmes wrote: »
    predictions for 5th April restrictions?

    Level 3 county wide lockdown with hospitality opened?

    how likely?

    Very unlikely.


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