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    #752
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Only 7 new cases in Donegal today. Wonder if the labs all had the bank holiday off because that's very low.


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    #753
    Nobotty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 788 ✭✭✭Nobotty


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Only 7 new cases in Donegal today. Wonder if the labs all had the bank holiday off because that's very low.

    I think the level 3 and level 4 is starting to show its effect which makes me hopeful that the current level 5 will work
    We absolutely DO need the regime across the border to continue to clamp down and people to adhere to wash distance and cough etiquette


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    #754
    Heighway61
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    Figures getting better, nationally and for us.

    All round to mine for the Christmas party.


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    #755
    lulu1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    Heighway61 wrote: »
    Figures getting better, nationally and for us.

    All round to mine for the Christmas party.

    Should we bring a mask sorry I meant bottle :)


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    #756
    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    Our neighbour's across the border are going to have to make some tough decisions.
    All the big hospitals full to capacity, no beds and now running out of oxygen.


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    #757
    [Deleted User]
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    malinheader wrote: »
    Our neighbour's across the border are going to have to make some tough decisions.
    All the big hospitals full to capacity, no beds and now running out of oxygen.

    That's awful! I hope they get something sorted.

    I was reading BBC news this morning- a study by Imperial College, London, suggested that 100,000 people a day are being infected in England.

    At this stage it's beginning to look like they're going to test herd immunity, whether they want to, or not.

    That's a scary thought, considering how many Donegal people are working in England - including my own sons!
    (And brothers and sisters!)

    Compared to that mess, we're doing well. Hopefully, we can keep it that way.


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    #758
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    At this stage it's beginning to look like they're going to test herd immunity, whether they want to, or not.

    Good luck to anyone trying to achieve herd immunity from a virus that has shown zero evidence of giving long term immunity to those who have had it.


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    #759
    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    I thought it was very telling when the doctor said that testing and the R number were nearly pointless in the north now given the rate of the spread.


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    #760
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Good luck to anyone trying to achieve herd immunity from a virus that has shown zero evidence of giving long term immunity to those who have had it.

    True. Having said that, it will give definitive proof, one way or the other.


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    #761
    Heighway61
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    Sorry folks, Christmas party cancelled till 2022.


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    #762
    NIMAN
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    Heighway61 wrote: »
    Sorry folks, Christmas party cancelled till 2022.

    Fine with me.


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    #763
    henke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭henke


    56 today which is high again unfortunately. Hopefully this is out of an isolated cluster and community transmission is dropping.


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    #764
    Heighway61
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Fine with me.
    Sorry, what I meant to say was, everyone round to mine at Christmas... except for NIMAN.


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    #765
    Cherry Blossom
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    My niece got tested today. Close contact of someone at school. She’s already had no contact with them for 10 days. Are they that far behind with the test and trace system that she’s been called for a test because of someone she last saw 10 days ago? She hasn’t been anywhere since but she could have been.


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    #766
    [Deleted User]
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    I hope she gets a negative result, Cherry Blossom.


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    #767
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Cherry Blossom wrote: »
    My niece got tested today. Close contact of someone at school. She’s already had no contact with them for 10 days. Are they that far behind with the test and trace system that she’s been called for a test because of someone she last saw 10 days ago? She hasn’t been anywhere since but she could have been.

    They could be behind, or it could just depend on when the person in question was tested. 10 days ago puts us at Oct 21st. So, say the person your niece was in contact with started having symptoms on the 23rd, didn't contact a doctor until the 25th, a Sunday, was referred for testing on the 26th, has their test on the 27th, got results back on the 28th, list of close contacts was given on the 29th, and they were contacted on the 30th to arrange a test, that fills the time without there actually being any major delay.


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    #768
    Heighway61
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    Cherry Blossom wrote: »
    My niece got tested today. Close contact of someone at school. She’s already had no contact with them for 10 days. Are they that far behind with the test and trace system that she’s been called for a test because of someone she last saw 10 days ago? She hasn’t been anywhere since but she could have been.
    Hope your niece results are negative. You would think with all the highly paid professionals, managers and administrators we could at least set up a functioning test and trace system.


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    #769
    Heighway61
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    They could be behind, or it could just depend on when the person in question was tested. 10 days ago puts us at Oct 21st. So, say the person your niece was in contact with started having symptoms on the 23rd, didn't contact a doctor until the 25th, a Sunday, was referred for testing on the 26th, has their test on the 27th, got results back on the 28th, list of close contacts was given on the 29th, and they were contacted on the 30th to arrange a test, that fills the time without there actually being any major delay.
    The test and trace system has been all over the shop.


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    #770
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Heighway61 wrote: »
    The test and trace system has been all over the shop.

    It was fine until a few weeks ago when the numbers started going through the roof and everyone that tested positive had 30 or 40 close contacts. Yes, it needed more support and funding, like everything else in the health care system, but part of it's failings over the last month or so is down to the public themselves.


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    #771
    Heighway61
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    It was fine until a few weeks ago when the numbers started going through the roof and everyone that tested positive had 30 or 40 close contacts. Yes, it needed more support and funding, like everything else in the health care system, but part of it's failings over the last month or so is down to the public themselves.
    During the first wave of the virus one of my wife's patients, that she visits almost daily, tested positive. My wife wasn't contacted. She found out several days later from the patient's family. She contacted her manager (HSE) who told her to keep working as she wasn't displaying symptoms. In other words, keep visiting the sick and elderly, it'll probably be OK. My wife rang her GP who organised a test for her and advised her to self-isolate. Work were very displeased. My wife was never contacted with the results of her test.

    That looks more to me like an entirely inadequate and badly managed system. For this second wave they should have learned from the first and been ready.


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    #772
    Cherry Blossom
    Registered Users Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭Cherry Blossom


    My niece is positive, rest of her family got tested today. She says she has no sense of smell or taste. No other symptoms.


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    #773
    Heighway61
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    All the best to your niece and family. Hopefully she is one of the milder cases and makes a full and speedy recovery.


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    #774
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    Wishing a speedy recovery to your neice, and a negative result for the rest of your family.

    Here's hoping, your neice will continue to have mild symptoms, and recover quickly.


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    #775
    CastorTroy
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    Bit off topic, I know places are understaffed these days due to the virus, but is anyone working at Highland Radio in the evenings? Turned it on for the news just before 8 and it's had the same song skipping every 15-20 seconds with dead air in between for the last 20 minutes. Didn't even broadcast the news. Now I just have it on in the background to see how long it'll go on for. Other times they have songs playing over each other or even over the news.


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    #776
    Heighway61
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    Numbers going down in recent days. On it's own that's good to see.

    Highland reporting a cluster at LUH. Staff and patients affected. Hope it's not too large a number. Pressure on beds and the public are asked not to attend the Emergency Department unless absolutely necessary. ( i.e., an emergency? :) )

    https://www.highlandradio.com/2020/11/05/serious-concern-amid-reports-of-covid-cluster-in-luh/


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    #777
    frank8211
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    Denmark is culling all mink because a lot of them have the cornavirus . Is it time the ones in the donegal mink farm were culled


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    #778
    StillThinking
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    frank8211 wrote:
    Denmark is culling all mink because a lot of them have the cornavirus . Is it time the ones in the donegal mink farm were culled


    I read an article on it and it was saying that isolating the farms isn't even working and they thing it might be birds spreading it between them


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    #779
    muffler
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    Fecks sake. 75 cases today and that has just brought us up to No. 1 in the 14-Day incidence rate.

    Is it surprising when you look around and see the antics of others :mad:


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    #780
    JoannieG
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    Some people just won't be told. 😢


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    #781
    babybuilder
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    frank8211 wrote: »
    Denmark is culling all mink because a lot of them have the cornavirus . Is it time the ones in the donegal mink farm were culled

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54818615

    This could be a serious threat to any vaccines in development. Is there still a mink farm in Donegal? Feckers escaped in 1970s and wracked havoc on salmon in rivers.


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