Coronavirus (COVID-19)

JP Liz V1

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

I'm hoping some or most of that includes a backlog. Are swabs out tomorrow?

I thought the backlog was already accounted for

Away With The Fairies

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I thought the backlog was already accounted for

They said it was but it wasn't.

Cape Clear

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I thought the backlog was already accounted for

Rte don't know either! You'd have to wonder sometimes what the likes of George Lee ls been paid for.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0110/1188782-coronavirus-ireland/

Cork numbers are woeful.

EnzoScifo

7,000 cases in Cork in the last 14 days. Crazy.

Away With The Fairies

EnzoScifo wrote: »

7,000 cases in Cork in the last 14 days. Crazy.

I know they are keeping tests for those with symptoms. But I'm kind of hoping that it's people making up symptoms because they were in contact with a positive case.

JP Liz V1

https://twitter.com/paulreiddublin/status/1348198322381717504

corks finest

cantalach wrote: »

I agree with the sentiment but Pieta House is unconnected with CAMHS. There is an obvious overlap in people using the services, and there is sometimes cross-referral, but that’s as far as it goes. Pieta House is non-HSE and is 80% funded by charity.

Theyre linked as in most of the clients are waiting on camhs but the waiting list is crazy, Pieta step in ASAP, especially to serious cases once referred, Pieta for me are miracle workers

Away With The Fairies

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/paulreiddublin/status/1348198322381717504

Avoid getting sick while some of us still has to go to work and mix with people?

Treehelpplease

^ then he isn't talkiing about you? He means people who can choose to avoid people and risky situations but don't

Away With The Fairies

Treehelpplease wrote: »

^ then he isn't talkiing about you? He means people who can choose to avoid people and risky situations but don't

Every workplace and mixing is risky. Continue on into work but also telling us to avoid getting sick.

ACitizenErased

EnzoScifo wrote: »

7,000 cases in Cork in the last 14 days. Crazy.

Reported in the last 14 days, not actual cases in the last 14 days. A lot of those are backlogged from Christmas week.

TheChizler

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Every workplace and mixing is risky. Continue on into work but also telling us to avoid getting sick.

If you're doing everything possible to not get sick in work then he's not talking to you, if there's anything you can do to improve your safety, and to be honest most of us can do better, then it will help the situation.

H8GHOTI

opus wrote: »

...St Mary's in Gurranabraher got the 1st dose of the vaccine in the South Infirmary today. Doesn't sound like it's been meticulously planned...

Ya similar happened in another Cork hospital. Hospital were looking for information all last week & nothing was forthcoming. No idea of qty or date, then employees asked to come in last minute.

H8GHOTI wrote: »

...You couldn’t say HR are frontline.
Tbh it looks like this list went out the window on day one. They started in hospitals before care homes. Certainly a HR person in the Mercy shouldn’t be getting it before a doctor or nurse in another hospital.

But with the logistics you can see how it could happen. The Mercy would have been given a certain quantity. Presumably they did frontline first & had some left over. 6 doses per vial now instead of 5, right?

It’s got a short shelf life. Rather than drag some 70 year old in off the street or bin the excess, they vaccinated extra staff...

I posted this about The Mercy few days ago, was only guessing. But this same thing happened in another hospital over the weekend. Admin staff given vaccines, after frontline staff got theirs & there was some left over. Even staff that can/are working from home & wouldn’t have any contact with patients.

Like I said about The Mercy, you can see how it could happen & it’s understandable. Think most people would agree though, it would be better if they could first vaccine those that need it more.

Away With The Fairies

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Every workplace and mixing is risky. Continue on into work but also telling us to avoid getting sick.

If you can WFH then you should do so. They've closed non essential retail etc. Many workplaces are either closed or have folk working from home.

ACitizenErased

In some more good news..
Cork GP Referrals are almost down to pre-christmas levels.
https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2021-01-11_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf

ACitizenErased

Sunday - 4142 positive swabs, 18.05% positivity on 22,949 swabs (means there was 2k backlog in yesterday)

Today - 2845 positive swabs, 15.56% positivity on 18,280 swabs

Positivity rate has dropped from 25% last Monday to 15% today.

whatever76

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Sunday - 4142 positive swabs, 18.05% positivity on 22,949 swabs (means there was 2k backlog in yesterday)

Today - 2845 positive swabs, 15.56% positivity on 18,280 swabs

Positivity rate has dropped from 25% last Monday to 15% today.

these backlog number have me all confused I thought these were all cleared last week ?

freshpopcorn

whatever76 wrote: »

these backlog number have me all confused I thought these were all cleared last week ?

I know lots of people who thought this.
However if you ask this question You generally get a smart ass reply saying that it was clearly explained that the back log wasn’t fully cleared.

JP Liz V1

whatever76 wrote: »

these backlog number have me all confused I thought these were all cleared last week ?

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I know lots of people who thought this.
However if you ask this question You generally get a smart ass reply saying that it was clearly explained that the back log wasn’t fully cleared.

I thought Nolan, HSE and DOH said the backlog was cleared too

H8GHOTI

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I thought Nolan, HSE and DOH said the backlog was cleared too

Ah sure how would they know?

ACitizenErased

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I thought Nolan, HSE and DOH said the backlog was cleared too

Which means there is no more cases being added to the backlog. The cases in the backlog are still being announced.

JeffKenna

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Which means there is no more cases being added to the backlog. The cases in the backlog are still being announced.

How does that equate to the backlog being cleared?

KrustyUCC

695 in Cork today

ACitizenErased

JeffKenna wrote: »

How does that equate to the backlog being cleared?

On the HSE's end it's administratively cleared. On the HPSC end it isn't.

JP Liz V1

https://www.southernstar.ie/news/gps-note-alarming-rise-in-covid-cases-in-west-cork-4216739

JP Liz V1

Of the cases notified today:

•2,250 are men / 2,641 are women
•59% are under 45 years of age
•The median age is 39 years old
•1,513 in Dublin, 695 in Cork, 320 in Limerick, 305 in Wexford, 225 in Galway and the remaining 1,871 cases are spread across all other counties.

As of 2pm today, 1,582 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 146 are in ICU. 156 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Funsterdelux

What parts of Cork are best avoided?

ACitizenErased

Funsterdelux wrote: »

What parts of Cork are best avoided?

everywhere at the moment it seems

JeffKenna

Funsterdelux wrote: »

What parts of Cork are best avoided?

Wouldn't be going near Mahon, pandemic or no pandemic.