Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Sonrisa

A good trend. Hopefully people have a nice quiet bank holiday weekend and we keep this up.

Balmed Out

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Swab/case numbers have nothing to do with tracing. HPSC deals with cases, HSE deals with tracing.

Close contacts are most likely people to be positive barring those with symptoms. If they aren't tested there would be less positive cases.

ACitizenErased

Balmed Out wrote: »

Close contacts are most likely people to be positive barring those with symptoms. If they aren't tested there would be less positive cases.

That's not quite how the spread of disease works.

Vieira82

passed again by the testing center, was absolutely packed. Don't believe these numbers sadly

ACitizenErased

Vieira82 wrote: »

passed again by the testing center, was absolutely packed. Don't believe these numbers sadly

Testing’s at an all time high, positivity rate is dropping. Anyone and everyone is getting a test right now.

TheChizler

jackrussel wrote: »

Is that a testing site being made on south Douglas road? Just there by the back, employee pedestrian entrance to St Finbarrs, across from the house that’s covered in plants. They put down tarmac and light fixtures along with a few shipping containers.

Where will all the parents in 4x4s double and triple park now?

Just passed by since I could leave the house for the first time in two weeks, covid testing centre signs up now, as well as big army style tunnel tents. Like something out of an apocalypse movie

Balmed Out

ACitizenErased wrote: »

That's not quite how the spread of disease works.

What are you talking about, I didn't say anything of the sort.
You said there was not a link to the amount of positive case results and contact tracing and I explained that there is.
Close contacts of positive cases are tracked and tested resulting in more positive cases, one would hope that people would have the kop on to let close contacts know themselves who will than arrange tests but of course there would be those that won't. If there is a lot of cases with no contact tracing performed there will be people who are not tested and who would have been tested positive.

JP Liz V1

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Testing’s at an all time high, positivity rate is dropping. Anyone and everyone is getting a test right now.

That's good more tests more detections

ACitizenErased

Balmed Out wrote: »

What are you talking about, I didn't say anything of the sort.
You said there was not a link to the amount of positive case results and contact tracing and I explained that there is.
Close contacts of positive cases are tracked and tested resulting in more positive cases, one would hope that people would have the kop on to let close contacts know themselves who will than arrange tests but of course there would be those that won't. If there is a lot of cases with no contact tracing performed there will be people who are not tested and who would have been tested positive.

If there are people in the community with the disease it spreads - leading to an increased positivity rate, and increased cases - not the other way around.

polaris68

Great to see the big drop in case numbers in Cork today. Hopefully it will continue and IF it's maintained over the next few days its important to remember the drop will not be due to the Level 5 restrictions. They take about a week or more to have an effect. It will mean that the level 3 restrictions were working.

Balmed Out

ACitizenErased wrote: »

If there are people in the community with the disease it spreads - leading to an increased positivity rate, and increased cases - not the other way around.

Obviously in the longer term but initially tgere would be a decrease.

The level 3 restrictions are showing signs of working...... Level 3 with fines for houseparties etc is the key going forward IMO.

Level 5 is unnecessary and bad for everyone.

ACitizenErased

148 today

SleetAndSnow

Thats disappointing, hopefully drops again tomorrow.

Cork Lass

That’s a hell of a jump in one day. Fingers crossed it goes down again sooner rather than later.

ACitizenErased

FWIW the 3 day average for Cork is now 95 compared to 140 this time last week.
Similarly, the 5 day average is now 107.8 compared with 133 this time last week.
Definitely dropping.

Ludo

ACitizenErased wrote: »

FWIW the 3 day average for Cork is now 95 compared to 140 this time last week.
Similarly, the 5 day average is now 107.8 compared with 133 this time last week.
Definitely dropping.

I really wouldn't put much faith in a 3 day average, but the 5 day definitely is encouraging.

Trouser Snake

Any drop is encouraging. Have to say there were no signs of level 5 lockdown much in Fermoy today, everyone booted and suited though, bar the usuals.

Corholio

I think people need to stop reacting in forlorn or false positive to 1 day numbers both ways, 'Great that it's low/Very high today unfortunately' etc. There's much better barometers than the 1 day numbers, even the 3 day don't give any true impression.

fin12

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40070591.html

Who would have thought being in a small metal tube with recycled air for a period of time would be a good idea.

And by the way why are Ryanair allowed fly without leaving the middle seat empty and then also operating their trolley service which was supposed to be banned, but I can’t sit in a well spaced out area having a pint.

.red.

fin12 wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40070591.html

Who would have thought being in a small metal tube with recycled air for a period of time would be a good idea.

And by the way why are Ryanair allowed fly without leaving the middle seat empty and then also operating their trolley service which was supposed to be banned, but I can’t sit in a well spaced out area having a pint.

Those cases are linked to the behaviour and actions of passengers after they landed, nothing in the article suggests it had anything to do with the flight itself.
There was 49 people on an aircraft with 283 seats so when you add in crew it was just over 20% full, the equivelant of 10 people on a bus éireann coach.

fin12

.red. wrote: »

Those cases are linked to the behaviour and actions of passengers after they landed, nothing in the article suggests it had anything to do with the flight itself.
There was 49 people on an aircraft with 283 seats so when you add in crew it was just over 20% full, the equivelant of 10 people on a bus éireann coach.

Maybe u should focus on the following that was in the article:

We calculated high attack rates, ranging plausibly from 9.8 to 17.8 % despite low flight occupancy and lack of passenger proximity onboard.

SleetAndSnow

147 today

JP Liz V1

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

147 today

What is the current hosptial situation?

H8GHOTI

fin12 wrote: »

Maybe u should focus on the following that was in the article:

We calculated high attack rates, ranging plausibly from 9.8 to 17.8 % despite low flight occupancy and lack of passenger proximity onboard.

Or the following sentence:
“Exposure possibilities for flight cases include in-flight, during overnight transfer/pre-flight or unknown acquisition before the flight.”

The fact that one of the passengers was living with 34 others is more concerning than the flight to me. Also, no mention of the origin country. If it was from a region that was much worse than us at the time, it would highlight problems with governments travel policies and lack of enforcement.

cantalach

H8GHOTI wrote: »

Or the following sentence:
“Exposure possibilities for flight cases include in-flight, during overnight transfer/pre-flight or unknown acquisition before the flight.”

The fact that one of the passengers was living with 34 others is more concerning than the flight to me. Also, no mention of the origin country. If it was from a region that was much worse than us at the time, it would highlight problems with governments travel policies and lack of enforcement.

The flight was from either Dubai, Doha, or Abu Dhabi, i.e. major interconnection hubs. So chances are that most of the passengers started their journeys in Asia, India, or Aus/NZ. Take your pick.

JP Liz V1

Gardai are shutting down the clothing sections of Tesco and Dunnes (as what/why clothes are non essential) but no stopping large gatherings or house parties and large sales of alcohol

Widdensushi

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Gardai are shutting down the clothing sections of Tesco and Dunnes (as what/why clothes are non essential) but no stopping large gatherings or house parties and large sales of alcohol

The reality is they are being shut down due rival businesses objecting, the vintners are trying the same with the off licence

igCorcaigh

Widdensushi wrote: »

The reality is they are being shut down due rival businesses objecting, the vintners are trying the same with the off licence

Yes, and i don't get it. If other businesses are closed anyway, then why shut down other stores selling?

fin12

The whole thing is a joke, what’s the difference between walking around the food section to the clothes section in Duness? Still people around and same protocols.