Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

Tomato1

Expressions of interest went out to NAS staff to be trained in testing.
Training already started today for the trainers.

Probably due to start monday for rest of staff.

Only select few volunteers will be doing the training. Handful of people per county.
Will be oral/nasal swab. Person on an response car will be conducting the te
Very strong push on ensuring the patient can stay home and self isolate unless life threateningly unwell.

Biggest issue however is lack of flu-kits.

Staff supposed to don a flu kit when testing the patient.
Then remove flu kit.
Don another when cleaning the vehicle with spray bottle stuff.

If an ambulance has to transport. Both crew members need to don a suit. Crew members are to stay seperate. i.e one treats and one drives.
No contact between crew members. The driver will have to meet the ED staff and then step back while ED staff + treating paramedic with flu kits move patient into ED.
Then remove flu kits. Don another and deep clean vehicle with spray bottle + wipes. :pac:

Btw all ambulances only have 1 flu kit.
Each call you're looking at going through 2-3 flu kits minimum if no transport required.

Being told we can't source enough of them.

amadangomor

tillyfilly wrote: »

7up today

Not remotely funny

Unearthly

And Ireland is now in take off stage. Inevitable

Necro

Vera Shy Storybook wrote: »

He is the Taoiseach.

Can we not have this argument in this thread please?

Widdershins

I was thinking that the definition of immunocompromised might be much broader than people seem to think.

I'm also remembering having pneumonia at 21 despite being strong as an ox and virtually never ill before then. It was very serious and felt like the description of the point when people need to be hospitalised with coronavirus : "like drowning when you try to breath". I'm not sure if there's an issue with how the cause of deaths was recorded (with C19 being omitted, pneumonia recorded as the cause, and thus many deaths not reflected in statistics). I believe I read that on Boards so excuse me if it's incorrect.

I can't help feeling this is more serious than it's being presented. It seems like there's been huge global response for something supposedly comparable to typical influenza.
Was there this much reaction to swine flu etc? Did China practically shut down at that time?
It's just puzzling.

namloc1980

Two flights arriving into Dublin from Milan and Treviso later this evening.

SushiLover31

Pretzill wrote: »

Ah Jaysus Necro I was in Boyle yesterday

Where did ye hear these rumours?

piplip87

Any word on the briefing.... I sat through the news in Irish but I'm drawing a line at Nationwide

4068ac1elhodqr

Prediction is for 100k global cases by midnight, or 103k by 9am.

Italy and Irn are having a head-to-head race to 5k, meanwhile Germany (gave up after 20cases), France and Spain are quickly heading towards 500 each.

fritzelly

Still cannot find the briefing online

lawrencesummers

20+ new ones tomorrow I reckon.
And if the actions of the infected GP in Clare are accurate we can expect a big jump at some stage in the next week once they have traced and tested the people he was in contact with.


With 8 suspected tests in Cork awaiting results overnight the level of new case detection will probably be only held back by the ability to process tests.

Paddy’s day parades will surely be axed by next monday, in a hope that people can cancel travel plans.

05eaftqbrs9jlh

It's not on Virgin media. Where can we watch the briefing?

VinLieger

piplip87 wrote: »

Any word on the briefing.... I sat through the news in Irish but I'm drawing a line at Nationwide

Same i hope they arent waiting till 9 to suit the likes of RTE

whisky_galore

Perhaps it's better to get it early than getting it when every hospital is like a disaster area with cases coming in the doors.

dhaughton99

“Tune in to RTÉ News Now for more information”
Proxy Nationwide is on.

Pseudonym121

TomSweeney wrote: »

Is it true that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic killed 150K people in the first year ???


How come there wasn;t massive panic with that pandemic ??

Because H1N1 wasn’t a pandemic. This will be significantly worse.

normanoffside

namloc1980 wrote: »

Two flights arriving into Dublin from Milan and Treviso later this evening.

Give it a week and they'll be saying the same about flights arriving from Dublin

shmeee

fritzelly wrote: »

Still cannot find the briefing online

Virgin Media Facebook Page I think

pc7

tillyfilly wrote: »

harry is not next in line after Wills, George is

Yeah he’s about 6th in line, hence i was joking

BarryD2

Ninthlife wrote: »

Leo is one of the highest paid leaders in the world

Time for him to start leading

You can't blame Varadkar or Harris for this. It's the senior health administrators in the HSE/ Dept of Health who have been advising what policy to take. That's where the buck stops, for all it's worth.

But yes Leo and the government need to show a stronger hand and make hard decisions if necessary.

tillyfilly

This is shocking

SleetAndSnow

RTE news now on nationwide by breaking news banner in huge writing saying 7 new cases confirmed

rubberdungeon

It’s mentioned in a banner on RTÉ NEWS Now

Alex86Eire

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

The HSE should say where these new cases are located, ballpark even.

Two in Cork anyway

Pitch n Putt

Naggdefy wrote: »

Cheltenham is another sacred cow that should go. All large gatherings of people.

What’s the big hullabaloo about Cheltenham going ahead or not ? Yes there will be a mass gathering of people but not one soccer match etc has been cancelled yet
Over 5 million people using tube in London daily etc
If you call off a sporting event or all mass gatherings then the whole country should be shutdown it’s all or nothing at that stage
It’s here now and within two weeks will be widespread

is_that_so

Vera Shy Storybook wrote: »

He is the Taoiseach.

Caretaker with very limited ability to do anything. They are just keeping the lights on. He was never managing it anyway and they'll act on the advice given to them by the DoH/HSE.

Ohmeha

namloc1980 wrote: »

Two flights arriving into Dublin from Milan and Treviso later this evening.

It really is just absolutely fukin insane

lawrencesummers

Naggdefy wrote: »

Cheltenham is another sacred cow that should go. All large gatherings of people.

Don’t mind Cheltenham, the largest gathering of people in these islands is the London Tube. 5 million people a day.

Naggdefy

Read the beginning paragraph for confirmation..

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0305/1120330-coronavirus-updates/

Volthar

harr wrote: »

A lot of the population probably should be wearing them at this stage . I think anyone who has a cold or is feeling unwell should mask up at this stage.

The only problem with it is that you can't buy them anywhere and if you can, prices are near prohibitive.