Micky 32 wrote: » A couple of positive qoutes from government today to end a Monday night: “”It is hoped this time will be the last appeal for people to hold firm as the vaccination programme ramps up significantly.”” “”The Minister for Transport, Environment and Climate said it was critical to get the next few weeks right to bring the country back on the path back to normality, which is now in prospect.””
joseywhales wrote: » So I should be getting vaccinated soon(this month, both shots), I'm living in the us. Can I come home then or do I have to sit in a hotel for two weeks?
KrustyUCC wrote: » US not on the quarantine hotel list
Klonker wrote: » Can we now ban people from saying that the vaccines don't stop infection/spread of the virus?
snotboogie wrote: » Unreal result, still only at 115 vaccines per 100 BTWhttps://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1376651803912245254?s=19
Stark wrote: » I wonder about the rapid move through the age groups. They don't seem to have that many people overall vaccinated yet. Wonder have they simply abandoned the priority lists due to poor uptake.
IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: » https://twitter.com/aslavitt46/status/1376605304503275526 Could have been the EU if the bloc and its member states had got its strategy right. ALAS...
Probes wrote: » I’m confused by those vaccination numbers, is it 56% of the population that have either 1 or 2 doses? I.e. 44% have nothing yet?
stephenjmcd wrote: » More good vaccine newshttps://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1376551927291469827?s=19
Economics101 wrote: » Just saw this on RTE News website: I would have thought that the HSE would have had a reasonably accurate of the numbers in Group 4. Going from 150,000 to 250,000 is a 67% increase. What's going on? I never had much confidence in the HSE's ability to collect process information. I still don't!
Carefree88 wrote: » I'm talking about nursing homes, not general public.Of course we shouldnt test asymptomatic people in general public. We are talking about 80 year olds here, alot of them sick and old, a sniffle for you could be death for them.Vaccines we know stop symptoms of Covid at 90%, not 100%, residents are still at risk of catching Covid and death.I don't agree with not testing in nursing homes, we made too many mistakes and with variants and weakened immuned systems we should continue testing them in my opinion. Do you think vaccinated staff shouldn't wear masks in nursing homes either by the way?
Latest Health Service Executive estimates put the number of people in Group 4 at 250,000, an increase on earlier estimates of around 150,000 people.
hynesie08 wrote: » J&J gave a first delivery date Pfizer reduces transmission risk by 90% after second dose. Ireland pissed through 100k vaccines in five days. Nothing game changing but all good.
Dickie10 wrote: » i havent been lurking here for a few days , whats happened? pray tell last i heard it was doom and gloom as usual!
funnydoggy wrote: » Feeling so bloody positive about the vaccines. COVID won't be eradicated, but it will be a background illness that may pop up in the winter, hugely abated by vaccines and treatments. It's nearly over folks
Carefree88 wrote: » It is an awkward situation alright, similar to the student nurses that wont get a placement without the vaccine, they are basically forced as well, can understand it but dont understand not testing people that have got the vaccine in the nursing homes.
astrofool wrote: » Until there is confirmed supply, everybody is in the dark as to when pharmacists will be needed, it's really as simple as that. It sounds like you want the HSE to employ some kind of "Everything's OK" alarm in the mean time.
Economics101 wrote: » Some negative stuff re pharmacists in relation to my earlier post referencing RTE (https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0329/1206811-pharmacists-vaccine/) The pharmacists' main complaint was being left in the dark about their future role in vaccination. I know that at present the main constraint is vaccine supply, but soon the constraint will be vaccinators. Being kept in the dark by the HSE in inexcusable. Of course the pharmacists may be complaining a bit too much, but the HSE has form when it comes to poor information.
ceegee wrote: » The version in the Indo seems quite differenthttps://m.independent.ie/irish-news/health/social-media-hoax-results-inpharmacy-staff-arrivingat-vaccine-centre-for-jabs-40244446.html Obviously people should have left once told they weren't going to receive a vaccine but seems from that article that they turned up in good faith. (Also seems to have been pharmacy staff rather than pharmacists, most of whom have received the first vaccine)
A number of people, who believed the social media information to be correct, briefly refused to leave the Páirc Uí Chaoimh complex in Cork until they had received the vaccines
