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Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    It would be surprising if they do anything more than say this is why we advised X and now over to Phil for his graphs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    I wonder when the current Delta surge will peak? Probably in the next week or two may hit 3,000 cases a day?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,942 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    You keep saying this, it is rather juvenile.

    These people are making decisions that affect all of our lives and your advice is "Just don't watch it".

    Personally I would rather have my eyes open while I'm being fucked over. I still end up fucked but at least I knew when to brace myself.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭bokale


    Well I guess it's good it's broadcast so you have the option to watch. And others don't have to turn it on. Perfect



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭bloopy


    I'm going to go with late November and the cases probably quite high.

    The pubs open Friday and everyone has been told for the last two weeks that it is the dirty unvaccinated who are driving the cases.

    People are going to let their guard down and flock to the pubs and restaurants in the belief that they are protected.

    Current cases rates are too high(ish) to be put down to unvaccinated spread.

    Unvaccinated icu rates will probably start to drop after a bit as the virus tears through with the most vulnerable of the unvaccinated.

    Dunno about hospitalisations as the last breakdown I could find on vaccinated vs unvaccinated was in September (if someone has an updated breakdown that would be appreciated).

    Of course, the caveat here is that this is all speculation by some randomer on the internet.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭ginoginelli


    I'm also beginning to suspect Nolan is full of sh.t. His comments how the virus was 'almost suppressed among the vaccinated' to 'we are all on a knife edge now' a few weeks later, just doesnt make sense.

    He was also on the radio the other day, once again talking about the magical ability of schools to keep trasmissions low and how positivity rates had dropped off hugely in the prior two weeks. Which was around the time they coincidentally stopped testing close contacts. Hmmm.

    His models and statics have a huge range, and can really be manipulated and interpreted any way he sees fits.

    OverallI, I think he means well, but hes been caught spoofing a few times now, and doesnt have the same credibility he did at the start of the pandemic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭the corpo


    Pretty big jump in ICU numbers unfortunately, up to 86 now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Cork2021




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Wasnt it him that called antigen snake oil ? An absolutely ridiculous statement



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    A drop in hospitals numbers today again as well in general, and with most likely a decent discharge number again tonight.. that icu figure is astonishing in its rise and fuçk all explanation as to why there’s such a sudden increase!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Surely this is due to hospital/ICU outbreak somewhere. 12 in a day makes no sense in the overall context of the numbers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭bloopy


    It may be possible to figure out where by looking at the daily reports from the hse on icu capacity and hospitalisations.

    Haven't there been rumours of outbreaks in limerick and galway hospitals?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,271 ✭✭✭brickster69


    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,917 Mod ✭✭✭✭shesty


    I think his models had some credibility when exponential growth could be assumed.I don't see how credible models can be produced now, given that vaccines have almost broken transmission chains, but not in a predictable way, and that they only have a small number of weeks of increasing cases data to to work off to try and predict how case numbers might grow.I don't think the numbers fit cleanly to exponential growth at present, so I cannot see how anyone can predict anything confidently or accurately at this point other than to say "maybe relatively high to about this level, based on the last 3 weeks (approximately)"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,941 ✭✭✭User1998


    Most ICU patients have been there since March?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭bloopy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    There's always a delay of 5-10 days between hospital admissions and ICU admissions. 12 in a day is a bit out there, but 300 new hospital admissions in last 10 days, could easily produce 12 new ICU admissions.

    Almost definitely an outbreak aspect to it as well though. Not that there's an outbreak in ICU, but someone who is Covid+ and may have been moved into ICU for non-Covid reasons, will still be one of the 12.

    There were actually 14 ICU admissions in the last 24 hours, and no discharges, presumably 2 deaths.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,276 ✭✭✭Allinall


    And you accuse me of being juvenile?

    I was responding to a poster who claimed nobody wants to see the briefings.

    You are obviously not one of those.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭Nyero


    I doubt any journalist will ask for a breakdown of if these people are in ICU because of covid or for anything reason.

    Same with total number of hospitalised, how many are being treated because of covid, or something else.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    No, the total is the highest since mid-March when it was 80-90. The only caveat with our current numbers is that they can yo yo a bit.

    All here.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,941 ✭✭✭User1998




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭Healio


    Punctuation; it's important.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭GeorgeBailey


    Nobody wants to hear from NPHET? LOADS of people want to hear from them and hang on their every word. I learned a long time ago that the feelings of the nation as a whole are very much NOT represented on boards. Ray Darcy would've had to emigrate to get work otherwise.

    Recent opinion polls suggest 76% of people were in favour of keeping vaccine certs vaccine certs and that only 12% wanted all restrictions lifted but I'll bet most of the angry people on here don't know a single person in favour of any sort of restriction... or if they do know someone they'll likely say "they should hide under their beds while the rest of us get on with our lives"

    https://www.newstalk.com/news/1380-new-covid-cases-in-ireland-today-1265712



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    One of the things we also have to consider is that the unvaccinated are not uniformly distributed across the country. Birds of a feather and all that, someone who refuses to get vaccinated is more likely to be within a social circle of people who broadly refuse to get vaccinated too.

    That is, if you pick 300 adults at random right now, you will find ~92% are fully vaccinated. But adults don't distribute themselves at random. If you examine one 300-person wedding tonight, it's most likely the vaccination rate amongst them will be 99%+. While another wedding down the road might only have 30% vaccinated.

    Thus, non-hospital outbreaks can have a very swift impact on hospital resources. An outbreak amongst a large group of unvaccinated 20-somethings will probably result in absolutely nothing. Where an outbreak in a large group of unvaxxed 60-somethings will lead to hospitalisations and ICU admissions.

    This is why we see admissions jump in multiples rather than dribs and drabs. Because the most serious infections are now relatively clustered within unvaxxed social groups.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭bloopy


    Absolutely ludicrous.

    Some sort of secret unvaccinated club going around spreading covid.

    Is there more of this to be expected over the next few weeks as people attempt to reconcile two conflicting facts of almost highest vaccination rate in Europe and one of the highest case rates in Europe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭floorpie


    This is why we see admissions jump in multiples rather than dribs and drabs.

    Please don't present your opinion as a fact. The profiles of unvaccinated people in other countries are widespread, and cut across ages, incomes, educations, location, motivation for remaining unvaccinated, etc. E.g. it's certainly the case that some proportion have low levels of education and some proportion are better educated than 99% of people.

    The reason admissions jump is because, major surprise, it's an airborne virus and because all people are at risk of hospitalisation regardless of vaccination status.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,897 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Once more a pitiful attempt to place blame and guilt on a poster who has SFA responsibility for the rules regarding nightclubs.

    It was a joke which was nothing to do with "mocking anyone's struggles " and you are just trolling me as usual.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    No its not a secret unvaccinated club but the poster is right . You will get a certain demographic of people who are less likely vaccinated , for example Roma or East European groups . They tend to socialise together not because they are unvaccinated but they mix with each other anyway

    I know a good few Polish who are not vaccinated and they tend to socialise with each other .They were mixing before vaccines were on stream but of course were influencing each other


    I know a girl in her 30’s not vaccinated who hangs around with like minded people and they are all not vaccinated . They were hanging around before Covid and some strong voices in that group influenced others in the group

    I know a couple getting married in November who are not vaccinated . She told me they have to have their wedding in her house with caterers as most of her guests are not vaccinated



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,897 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    He's starting a new big job in January so he doesn't have the same incentive to be as diligent in his work maybe.



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