Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

I'm not on NEPHET. But I can add up since I was 5. And the 10 day swab number is 1,000 more than the 10 day case number. Also after 2 years it's kinda well known that case numbers mean nothing at the weekend without swab numbers.

Second day on here! I doubt you can say the same! Like everyone i've weak areas academically, but I've always been good at mental arithmetic so adding up two figures of 10 numbers didn't take me much time😂 And seeing we have that backlog.

Regarding you saying Leo is wrong, you can't say, we have a backlog, we've no swabs for today.

As a citizen erased pointed out we may go down in figures like the UK, we may have peaked. Or there could be 3 or 4,000 case days and we could peak in the next fortnight, it's only speculation. I want to see what 3.5k to 4k cases does to the hospitals as opposed to 2-2.5k cases. Hopefully the booster will off set it.

It's not accurate to say cases don't matter flat out. If they get really high it will mean more people in hospital. A percentage of 40-60 year olds, without the booster, will end up in hospital, however small, the more cases the more hospitalised. Out health service is fragile, throw winter illnesses on top of that and you could still have problems. It will be a number of weeks until the 40-60 year olds are boosted.

To put it simply, we maxed at 2,200 in hospital in January with an 8,000 case max.

Today we have 474 in hospital, they are from 2,500-3,000 cases. They hospital numbers dropped from 515 to around 430 minimum last week, but given today's 474 it seems the extra cases last week are having an effect on hospital numbers.

I know Tony Holohan loves the limelight, we're all sick of covid, want to live our lives to the full, but, Holohan, Glynn are the experts, everything they predicted, like last January, came to pass. If Holohan says there's still cause for concern, there is. We have 8-10 deaths a day, that's double the October/early November deaths last year. It's a fact.

Yes the vaccines are working but not aswell as I wanted. Likewise I'm sceptical of Pfizer's claims about their magic viral drug. It's probably good, but nowhere near the 89% efficacy. These companies have too much skin in the game.

As was on some article today, it looks like it's a 3 jab vaccine that really helps.

Will you cop on.

All we heard for a week there was 4000 cases coming, surge coming...the numbers dropped and then we hear oh, the peak is here of wave 4, blah blah blah.

Cop on about what?

Tony Holohan knows more about public health than you?