CoVid19 Part X - 1,564 cases ROI (9 deaths) 209 in NI (7 deaths) (25 March) *Read OP*

accensi0n

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

If anything our confirmed cases should increase dramatically as now we’re testing people with real symptoms and not the hypochondriacs.

Same number of tests carried out, more confirmed cases.

Yeah that's my expectation as well. Once we get through the backlog, or just decide to stop testing the backlog, the number of positive cases will jump up.

cdgalwegian

caveat emptor wrote: »

Thanks. There is a Tesco. Similar delivery situation i.e next month. I've not tried the click and collect. Still about a week wait time. I'm ok on long conservation for 2 weeks. Just need fruit veg and meat really. Have a little fella and mrs who was expecting this delivery. Me of all people was saying it would be grand for past 2 weeks on this front. Not filled with confidence now but trying to keep a straight face on it for their sake.

Again I'm not worried about today. I'm worried about next fortnight. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it though.

On 2/52 self-isolation. Local shop had no problem taking order on Facebook for collection out back, contactless payment, no cross-infection issues.
This could be a way for a lot of people, regardless if in self-isolation, as a means to lessen transmission. Deliveries for click and collect too cumbersome, and will worsen, especially if more restrictions brought in.

wakka12

https://news.sky.com/story/live-560-000-volunteers-have-now-signed-up-to-help-nhs-after-coronavirus-appeal-11963793
Welsh Chief Medical officer still believes 80% of the UK population will contract the virus 'at some point' after restrictions are lifted

iwillyeah1234

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Spain at +6673 and +442 deaths already, with more numbers to come.during the day most likely as usual.

Shocking.

Spain has gone over 4,000 deaths.
They really are turning into a 2nd Italy. Terrible stuff.

https://virusncov.com/covid-statistics/spain

Rob A. Bank

INMO Trolley Watch figures for March 26th 2020

https://www.inmo.ie/Trolley_Ward_Watch

11 beds short today in Irish Hospitals.

boardlady

RollieFingers wrote: »

Still in work Monday to Friday in my office, anyone else feel like they're not on "lockdown"?

It's a weird feeling, nothing has really changed for me apart from having fcuk all to do on weekends obviously.

I'm the same - and i'm torn between being grateful to still have my job, and feeling as though i'm being stripped of my choice to do 'the right thing' and stay home. I'm the weak link in my household now. I live very rurally and am completely isolated within our family unit other than the days I am at work.

boardlady

yourdeadwright wrote: »

You'd imagine by next week or the week after you we will see mostly just cases where people have picked it up from there own families member

Surely at this stage everyone people are avoiding anyone who is not a family member only for visit to the shops and being extremely careful while they are there ,

No. Not where people are still obliged to go to work.

Lavinia

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-coronavirus-latest-news-covid-19-antibody-test-ready-in-days/

Coronavirus antibody test could be available within days

The UK government has ordered more than 3 million finger prick antibody tests that could be ready in a matter of days. The tests could reveal whether someone had covid-19, but they are being checked first to show that they work properly. It is also still not known whether it’s possible to develop long-lasting immunity to the coronavirus.

iwillyeah1234

480k cases worldwide according to Hopkins
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

And 486k according to here:
https://virusncov.com/


USA in 3rd place.

The USA map on Hopkins is particularly worrying. Somehow I don't think they'll be going back to work for Easter.

Quantum Erasure

accensi0n wrote: »

Yeah that's my expectation as well. Once we get through the backlog, or just decide to stop testing the backlog, the number of positive cases will jump up.

They've stopped testing the backlog, to the point that even if you fit the new criteria and we're referred by your GP, you have to call your GP and be referred again

jam_mac_jam

My sister has nobody to mind her son as she is civil service and they can't work from home. I'm a bit nervous about taking him as I have literally not been outside the house.

But what do you do. We have to chip in to help but if he is a carrier we are all spreading around the family even if we are not seeing each other.

is_that_so

Lavinia wrote: »

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-coronavirus-latest-news-covid-19-antibody-test-ready-in-days/

Coronavirus antibody test could be available within days

The UK government has ordered more than 3 million finger prick antibody tests that could be ready in a matter of days. The tests could reveal whether someone had covid-19, but they are being checked first to show that they work properly. It is also still not known whether it’s possible to develop long-lasting immunity to the coronavirus.

The main UK adviser is more cautious.

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-finger-prick-test-antibodies-available-in-days-2517825

citysights

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

First case of Covid-19 identified in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, which is right beside some huge Rohingya refugee camps. The medical system is rudimentary and with over 1/2 million people living on top of one another... The outcome will be disastrous.

A lot of cities in the Third World are surrounded by overcrowded shanty towns like this, yet another disaster in the making caused by this damn virus.

I worry for Africa too, most countries there started after us and numbers are rising in some countries there.They already face so many dangers and this as well

gabeeg

citysights wrote: »

I worry for Africa too, most countries there started after us and numbers are rising in some countries there.They already face so many dangers and this as well

How about this for a depressing thought - sooner rather than later, some third world country is going to have to cope with both covid and some sort of natural disaster

iwillyeah1234

boardlady wrote: »

Can you arrange to meet a friend outdoors? Like at the beach or park or even your garden wall? You each bring your own thermos cup and snack and sit/stand at least 2m apart and have a catch up? I am doing this with family.

That's NOT recommended - you are meeting someone from a separate household.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-coronavirus-dont-visit-your-21745709

Over in the UK, because of the lockdown, there's a phenomenon of boyfriends/girlfriends moving in with each other:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8151049/Couples-cohabiting-coronavirus-lockdown-shared-stories.html

scamalert

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

They've stopped testing the backlog, to the point that even if you fit the new criteria and we're referred by your GP, you have to call your GP and be referred again

well if one can wait 2-3 weeks and they still insist to be tested its propably waste of a test, given how long virus been out its hard to believe that were only been hit in March, and with every stat stating that theres only good few dozen in critical seems were not Mainland europe and dont follow same path.


i get people get aroused to see more cases but if hse puts only priority to test most fitting its seem fair, as given we should see good few mass recoveries at this stage where 1500 cases isnt correct as many would be off the list or recovered themselves at home.

newbie18892

It's a bit upsetting to hear how family, friends, and everyone online seem to have decided that everyone who WAS waiting to be tested but doesn't fit the new priority criteria was a lying, time-wasting, hypochondriac and not just people who did feel unwell and were just following the advice of the HSE. I feel god awful today coughing and my chest is on fire but i'm "not even sick"

RollieFingers

boardlady wrote: »

I'm the same - and i'm torn between being grateful to still have my job, and feeling as though i'm being stripped of my choice to do 'the right thing' and stay home. I'm the weak link in my household now. I live very rurally and am completely isolated within our family unit other than the days I am at work.

Had that torn feeling too but I'm actually glad to be able to get out of the house, and obviously still getting paid and having a job is a big plus.

We are all being encouraged to take a weeks holiday staggered over April and May so will definitely be doing that at some stage just to kick back and chill.

iwillyeah1234

gabeeg wrote: »

How about this for a depressing thought - sooner rather than later, some third world country is going to have to cope with both covid and some sort of natural disaster

even worse - covid will go after folks with HIV, because of their lower immunity.
And they do have a huge problem with that in places like South Africa.

This isn't going to end well for them, at all.

igCorcaigh

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1243104190202818561?s=20

Kermit.de.frog

442 new deaths in Spain this morning.

6,678 new cases so far today.

Beasty

newbie18892 wrote: »

It's a bit upsetting to hear how family, friends, and everyone online seem to have decided that everyone who WAS waiting to be tested but doesn't fit the new priority criteria was a lying, time-wasting, hypochondriac and not just people who did feel unwell and were just following the advice of the HSE. I feel god awful today coughing and my chest is on fire but i'm "not even sick"

Don't think anyone has suggested that. Some cases maybe, but we need to recognise that may who have or indeed have already had, this virus will go undiagnosed

The "tested" figures were and are pretty meaningless

DevilsHaircut

caveat emptor wrote: »

Thanks. There is a Tesco. Similar delivery situation i.e next month. I've not tried the click and collect. Still about a week wait time. I'm ok on long conservation for 2 weeks. Just need fruit veg and meat really. Have a little fella and mrs who was expecting this delivery. Me of all people was saying it would be grand for past 2 weeks on this front. Not filled with confidence now but trying to keep a straight face on it for their sake.

Again I'm not worried about today. I'm worried about next fortnight. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it though.

Keep an eye on the slots as I think Tesco (anyway) add more. When I ordered there were none for c. 2 weeks, but a relative in the same area got a closer slot when they ordered after I did.

Kermit.de.frog

London hospitals seeing 'continuous tsunami' of patients, says NHS leader

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/mar/26/uk-coronavirus-live-news-updates-self-employed-rishi-sunakhospital-car-parking-charges-waived-for-nhs-staff-in-england

igCorcaigh

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

even worse - covid will go after folks with HIV, because of their lower immunity.
And they do have a huge problem with that in places like South Africa.

This isn't going to end well for them, at all.

I hope people on treatment will be OK.

I'm HIV+ but treatment is good and my cd4 count is healthy. Its more the capacity of the health system in developing countries that I would worry about.

Hector Savage

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Spain at +6673 and +442 deaths already, with more numbers to come.during the day most likely as usual.

Shocking.

And they are saying here it won't peak till the end of April, so thats a rise every day between now and a month - will end up to be the worst country on the planet.

Makes me wonder about the lockdown, it;s half assed at best.

is_that_so

newbie18892 wrote: »

It's a bit upsetting to hear how family, friends, and everyone online seem to have decided that everyone who WAS waiting to be tested but doesn't fit the new priority criteria was a lying, time-wasting, hypochondriac and not just people who did feel unwell and were just following the advice of the HSE. I feel god awful today coughing and my chest is on fire but i'm "not even sick"

The medical argument for it is the low number of positives and the impossibility of testing so many people. In recent days they have mentioned flu' being about as well.

Hrududu

igCorcaigh wrote: »

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1243104190202818561?s=20

That's the Uk.

Gynoid

scamalert wrote: »

i get people get aroused to see more cases but if hse puts only priority to test most fitting its seem fair....

Gets out notebook. Licks pencil tip....adds to list of...
Panic porn
Posting with lad in hand
Having a **** over the misery
The bedwetters

And now..
People getting aroused to see more cases.

(I think there is an epidemiological pattern emerging here, doctor.)

Personally I don't understand why more mention has not been made of panic sex.

iwillyeah1234

More scumbaggery...


A group of youths spat in the face of an RSPCA officer and shouted “have corona bitch”, as she tried to rescue a swan, the animal charity have said.

Leanne Honess-Heather was helping the bird, which had become tangled in a fishing line, when five teenagers – aged around 16 – approached her close to Rush Lyvars Fishing Lake in Hedon, Hull.

Honess-Heather said she asked them to stand back before the “really upsetting” incident occurred.

“They seemed to take offence to this, which led to two of the group spitting directly into my face, going in my mouth and eyes, as they yelled ‘have corona bitch’ at me,” she said.

“Like many other frontline services, most of my team are still out during this crisis, trying our best to continue to do our job, tending to, collecting and rescuing injured animals.

The swan, which had no long-term injuries after being cut free from the line, was released after being checked over by a vet.

The RSPCA is providing an emergency-only service to animals during the coronavirus pandemic.


source:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/mar/26/uk-coronavirus-live-news-updates-self-employed-rishi-sunakhospital-car-parking-charges-waived-for-nhs-staff-in-england