Covid 19 Part XXI-27,908 in ROI (1,777 deaths) 6,647 in NI (559 deaths)(22/08)Read OP

podgeandrodge

What restrictions are there for restaurants right now does anyone know, in terms of max numbers - I looked at Failte Ireland guidelines but it is a bit vague. Can 5 families from 'same family' all book a restaurant for a seating together?

schmoo2k

MD1990 wrote: »

we may have the cure.

https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1294280289397559298

That may come with some significant side effects!

Boggles

Hospitalization rate overall is 12.6%

The rate on roughly the 800 cases over the past 14 days has been 3.2%.

If anything considering we are probably only missing 1 case for every one we find and the age demographic of cases, the hospitalization rate is actually quite high.

If we were only finding 1 in 8 cases back in March / April. Scaled up that would give us a rate of 25%.

An over abundance of caution given the capacity is there would explain probably explain that given the shortness of the current hospital stays.

smurfjed

For an adult maybe. If I had to get my three year old tested, we would need two additional adults to hold his arms down and the other to grip his head still. They'd probably have to fit some kind of dental frame to keep his mouth open.

Have you done this test yourself ? At this stage i have done it 22 times (all negative), nasal or throat and nasal&throat, at least for me, its painless and takes less than 2 seconds.

Boggles

138 positive swabs.

11,337 test.

ACitizenErased

LATEST TESTING UPDATE

Tests conducted last 24 hours: 11,337
Tests conducted last 7 days: 41,139
Additional positive tests: 138
Positivity Rate last 7 days: 1.4%

Benimar

138 positive swabs.

ACitizenErased

Latest testing data
< 15,000 referrals last 72hrs and nearly 35,000 swabs taken. There's some targetted testing happening, I just don't know where.
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/integrated-information-service-testing-and-contact-tracing-dashboard-14-august-2020.pdf

ACitizenErased

A county many people don't seem to talk about is Carlow.
It now has the highest 14 day incidence outside of the 3 counties in lockdown.
Latest GP referral data shows a marked increase in referrals per GP, in Carlow alone.
https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2020-08-13_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf

CIARAN_BOYLE

GooglePlus wrote: »

That's shocking, any idea when you might get the result? That's another delay potentially

seefin wrote: »

Now that's worrying. Told along the only real way to live with the virus is decent testing and tracing.

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

Something is not right there. A friend contacted his GP on Tuesday morning, after being a close contact of a case, and had the test Wednesday, with results the next day.

In fairness to the health service I'm a non driver so that made the process more complicated as they had to send the national ambulance service out to me.

I offered to walk to my nearest test centre but they refused.

drunkmonkey

It's either loads of people paniking with seasonal allergies or masking has been a complete disaster, cases accelerating with the lack of the basics been followed.

virginmediapls

drunkmonkey wrote: »

It's either loads of people paniking with seasonal allergies or masking has been a complete disaster, cases accelerating with the lack of the basics been followed.

Yes, it would be a disaster if people weren't wearing masks.

Looney1

Hope I'm wrong but from what I'm hearing on the ground we could be in trouble here in limerick

giveitholly

drunkmonkey wrote: »

It's either loads of people paniking with seasonal allergies or masking has been a complete disaster, cases accelerating with the lack of the basics been followed.

The few places I have been in,most people wearing masks but no one sanitizing their hands on entry/exit. Plus a lot of masks look black from the dirt!!!!

fritzelly

Looney1 wrote: »

Hope I'm wrong but from what I'm hearing on the ground we could be in trouble here in limerick

WhatsApp?

ACitizenErased

Looney1 wrote: »

Hope I'm wrong but from what I'm hearing on the ground we could be in trouble here in limerick

What have you heard?

Deeper Blue

Looney1 wrote: »

Hope I'm wrong but from what I'm hearing on the ground we could be in trouble here in limerick

By "on the ground" I assume you mean a WhatsApp group?

giveitholly

Looney1 wrote: »

Hope I'm wrong but from what I'm hearing on the ground we could be in trouble here in limerick

I heard the same from a guard yesterday but was hoping it's only a rumour and nothing more

Non solum non ambulabit

ACitizenErased wrote: »

LATEST TESTING UPDATE

Tests conducted last 24 hours: 11,337
Tests conducted last 7 days: 41,139
Additional positive tests: 138
Positivity Rate last 7 days: 1.4%

Feck. Pity. Was hoping for 50/60 range

MD1990

Renjit wrote: »

Is it peer reviewed? This is dated May 2020.

Dunno.
But I just went & got 100g of weed

Away With The Fairies

Looney1 wrote: »

Hope I'm wrong but from what I'm hearing on the ground we could be in trouble here in limerick

What's up in Limerick?

ACitizenErased

Non solum non ambulabit wrote: »

Feck

Dare I post a positive comment? No increase in positivity rate even with over 11000 tests.

giveitholly

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Dare I post a positive comment? No increase in positivity rate even with over 11000 tests.

You will be lynched for posting a positive comment!!

JDD

smurfjed wrote: »

Have you done this test yourself ? At this stage i have done it 22 times (all negative), nasal or throat and nasal&throat, at least for me, its painless and takes less than 2 seconds.

That's very comforting smurfjed - if it was over quickly like a vaccination jab I'd have much less of an issue.

A county many people don't seem to talk about is Carlow.
It now has the highest 14 day incidence outside of the 3 counties in lockdown.
Latest GP referral data shows a marked increase in referrals per GP, in Carlow alone.
https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2020-...ey_Results.pdf

There's a good few meat factories in/near Carlow town.

fritzelly

giveitholly wrote: »

I heard the same from a guard yesterday but was hoping it's only a rumour and nothing more

Unless it's coming from the army it's probably fake

Renjit

MD1990 wrote: »

Dunno.
But I just went & got 100g of weed

That aint gonna cut it. You will need more.

stephenjmcd

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Latest testing data
< 15,000 referrals last 72hrs and nearly 35,000 swabs taken. There's some targetted testing happening, I just don't know where.
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/integrated-information-service-testing-and-contact-tracing-dashboard-14-august-2020.pdf

Meat plants perhaps ? There was talk last week of widespread testing to take place there.

mr zulu

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Dare I post a positive comment? No increase in positivity rate even with over 11000 tests.

Your a glutton for punishment lol.

Oranage2

Wow, I don't know how people will justify this one and also including NI too, I guess it's a 'downward trend' if you compare it to the 174 we had a few weeks ago or that we're 'stabilizing' at a low 100 cases a day. Shocking really I don't know how people think we should open up more, and for the love of all things holy please have restrictions on the border

ACitizenErased

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Meat plants perhaps ? There was talk last week of widespread testing to take place there.

There's way more testing than when the nursing homes were being done, whatever it is. Nursing home testing never passed 10,000 swabs per day, whatever's going on right now is hitting nearly 15,000.

Boggles

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Meat plants perhaps ? There was talk last week of widespread testing to take place there.

Care homes, mandatory testing of staff every fortnight.

ACitizenErased

Boggles wrote: »

Care homes, mandatory testing of staff every fortnight.

That ended 3 weeks ago, not starting again for another week or two according to Prof. Nolan.

Boggles

ACitizenErased wrote: »

That ended 3 weeks ago, not starting again for another week or two according to Prof. Nolan.

Was talking to a lady who just returned to work in one Monday after maternity, tested every 2 weeks is what she told me.

What else could generate that amount of testing?

AdamD

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Dare I post a positive comment? No increase in positivity rate even with over 11000 tests.

Why would an increase in testing increase the positivity rate? It should decrease..

Not sure there's a positive spin to be put on this one

drunkmonkey

drunkmonkey wrote: »

It's either loads of people paniking with seasonal allergies or masking has been a complete disaster, cases accelerating with the lack of the basics been followed.

Like someone not phoning their doctor if they or one or their kids might be showing symptoms?

ACitizenErased

AdamD wrote: »

Why would an increase in testing increase the positivity rate? It should decrease..

Not sure there's a positive spin to be put on this one

It did decrease.... oh dear. They'll catch me for anything.

Doctor Jimbob

Oranage2 wrote: »

Wow, I don't know how people will justify this one and also including NI too, I guess it's a 'downward trend' if you compare it to the 174 we had a few weeks ago or that we're 'stabilizing' at a low 100 cases a day. Shocking really I don't know how people think we should open up more, and for the love of all things holy please have restrictions on the border

What's your model predicting for today?

Renjit

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

What's your model predicting for today?

It's missing flux capacitor

is_that_so

ESRI survey on the COVID-19 "blame game" and thoughts on the implications of it.

Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Sarah McInerney, Pete Lunn, Head of the ESRI's Behavioural Research Unit, said in a recent survey just over 70% of respondents said that people who tested positive for the virus had been "reckless or careless".

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0814/1159162-coronavirus-testing/

Boggles

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Dare I post a positive comment? No increase in positivity rate even with over 11000 tests.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

It did decrease.... oh dear. They'll catch me for anything.

Yesterdays positive rate was .89% (7072 swabs)

Today's is 1.22% (11337 swabs)

ACitizenErased

Boggles wrote: »

Yesterdays positive rate was .89% (7072 swabs)

Today's is 1.22% (11337 swabs)

Yesterday was the first day in a week it was below 1%, the average is 1.4% as shown by the COVID dashboard, it hasn't risen above the average.

spookwoman

Non solum non ambulabit wrote: »

Feck. Pity. Was hoping for 50/60 range

Next time when you are taking the pee put a wink or something they are all having a hissy fit over your post

Boggles

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Yesterday was the first day in a week it was below 1%, the average is 1.4% as shown by the COVID dashboard, it hasn't risen above the average.

That's the 7 day average.

But it did increase on yesterday with roughly 40% more swabs.

That isn't really positive news, especially when you consider more than a quarter of the last 7 days tests were done yesterday.

ACitizenErased

Boggles wrote: »

That's the 7 day average.

But it did increase on yesterday with roughly 40% more swabs.

That isn't really positive news.

You're taking me up completely the wrong way, again.

bodhrandude

is_that_so wrote: »

ESRI survey on the COVID-19 "blame game" and thoughts on the implications of it.


https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0814/1159162-coronavirus-testing/

Well that's no surprise at all.

Boggles

ACitizenErased wrote: »

You're taking me up completely the wrong way, again.

Where did I take you up wrong before?

But I can assure I am not.

It's not actually that complicated.

Oranage2

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

What's your model predicting for today?

Sorry I haven't had time to update it as I've been pretty busy at work, but the trends aren't looking good. Random 'clusters' popping up across all the counties, Dublin's counts slowly rising which could easily spiral out of control. Positives are that younger people are getting it only due to the fact that the vulnerable at petrified to leave their homes. It seems like we're on a tight rope now and it could go either way but With more and more discontent amongst the general public for social distancing It seems like all these 6 months have been a waste of time which is a shame because it felt like we were so close to a zero count.

People need to get their act together or else we'll be back to March in no time.

ACitizenErased

Boggles wrote: »

I can assure I am not.

It's not actually that complicated.

You absolutely are, because I know what you are saying, but whatever.

stephenjmcd

Oranage2 wrote: »

Wow, I don't know how people will justify this one and also including NI too, I guess it's a 'downward trend' if you compare it to the 174 we had a few weeks ago or that we're 'stabilizing' at a low 100 cases a day. Shocking really I don't know how people think we should open up more, and for the love of all things holy please have restrictions on the border

I've asked this time and time again. How on earth do you have border restrictions with NI ?

wadacrack

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1294299069205159936