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

The problem with antigen tests is that they were not being used properly - only if you're asymptomatic you're supposed to use them. If you have symptoms, you must use a PCR test.

Haven’t we been told previously that there’s approx a 2 week overlap for admissions?

so are those the hosp numbers we should “predict” to see soon? Rather than today

I see @Stheno has answered so just for the craic, using Tony’s magic algorithm based on 4000 cases today we should have 100 new admissions and 8-12 people in ICU.

We didn’t!

Worrying that someone who leads public health is engaging in fake news on hospitalisation data. Is it fake news on school transmission? Is it fake news on the benefits of antigen tests?

That's NPHET advice though and is only a very narrow way to look at antigen tests. If someone can isolate at home and doesn't need a PCR it's surely better than having them go to busy test centres.

The curse of the missing comma.

I used your 4000 from 10 days ago:

Read it as:

I see @Stheno has answered so just for the craic, using Tony’s magic algorithm based on 4000 cases 10 days ago, today we should have 100 new admissions and 8-12 people in ICU.

We didn’t.

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Interesting, the pandemic of the unvaccinated isn’t standing up to evidence.

@astrofool I already stated that the side effects are under reported in current Covid vaccines due to a lag in time between the investigations and adding them to the statistics. I’ve no issue with other childhood vaccinations whatsoever or travel vaccinations either for that matter. Many of which I took for travel overseas.

I do have an extremely big issue with mandating vaccines like Covid vaccines on populations in the EU, forcing them on people and boosters on us. Absolutely people should get them if they so wish. 92% of adults did that in Ireland and yet here we are. There have been some shameful posts on this thread in relation to excluding children of ‘unvaccinated’ parents from schools, ostracising people from society and imprisonment. None of these suggestions belong in a western democracy, posters such as these should go & live in China for awhile under their social credit system & report back to boards. Although all the evidence is pointing towards no return to normality for Western Democracies going forward so maybe they’ll be right at home in Stasi Ireland.

Someone posted the same Israel data in Gavan O'Reilly's twitter thread.

They've squeezed the x-axis for max effect

It is not NIAC faffing around. It is the lack of planning in rolling the boosters out. How on earth they gave priority to jabbing the kids beforehand i don't know, surely Ireland could of been prepared to hand out 70K boosters a day at a push. It would probably be job done if they did / could.

I may be wrong but i think some countries have plenty of vaccines kicking about but not enough Pfizer. Germany have a problem because people only want to use one vaccine now and there is not enough of it yet have millions of Moderna in fridges that will go out of date soon.

Does sound familiar

We're currently at a 7 day average of 60 admissions per day or 77 if you take the total hospital detected cases.

Just on your figures and accounting for a 10 day lag, the previous 28 days have seen 1241 admissions or 1852 hospital detected cases based on 76756 cases in the 28 days (with a 10 day offset)

So either 1.6% or 2.4% hospitalization rate. Obviously the 1.6% is the correct rate, however the 2.4% cannot be ignored.

The 7 day admission average was kinda level at 40 up until a week ago (it's now at 60)