Coronavirus

Furze99 · 02-07-2021 10:30am

Hear that Covid cases have risen again in North Donegal - two weeks after the bused protest to Dublin. Who knows if there is a strong link but it seems likely at least to be a contributory factor.

timmyntc · 02-07-2021 10:40am

Furze99 wrote: »

Hear that Covid cases have risen again in North Donegal - two weeks after the bused protest to Dublin. Who knows if there is a strong link but it seems likely at least to be a contributory factor.

Far more likely that "delta variant" and northern pubs being fully open are more of a factor than the protest.

Also average time from infection to symptoms is much less than 2 weeks, we would have seen the impact much sooner (if there was one)

02-07-2021 4:20pm

If it is mainly coming from people hopping over the border to have indoor food and pints that makes the decision to hold off on that here sound like a better decision.

muffler · 02-07-2021 6:32pm

All 3 posts above moved from Mica thread to here. No idea why they were posted there

NIMAN · 02-07-2021 6:40pm

muffler wrote: »

All 3 posts above moved from Mica thread to here. No idea why they were posted there

To vilify the protesters?

Tyrone212 · 02-07-2021 7:35pm

timmyntc wrote: »

Far more likely that "delta variant" and northern pubs being fully open are more of a factor than the protest.

Also average time from infection to symptoms is much less than 2 weeks, we would have seen the impact much sooner (if there was one)

I support the protests obviously but it takes a while for cases to seed and spread, two weeks after it would be spot on regarding that. Would just be small increases before that so it could go unnoticed. 4/5 hours on packed buses up and down would be easy to spread. RTE news showed a bus packed, barely anyone wearing a mask and a woman singing with a guitar on the day of the protest which had left from Donegal. Wouldn't be hard for it to spread in that scenario.

The North being open and delta being more widespread there obviously has an impact but you can't discount the protests as having a detrimental impact as well just because we support the cause. Its not blaming anyone either, its just a reality.

ednwireland · 04-07-2021 4:15pm

electoral area data backup on https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

SW Donegal 49.1 per 100k
Glenties 87.8 per 100k
milford 116.2 per 100k
lifford stanolar 189.3 per 100k
letterkenny 231.6 per 100k
carndonagh 489.3 per 100k
buncrana 608.1 per 100k

babybuilder · 04-07-2021 6:46pm

ednwireland wrote: »

electoral area data backup on https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

SW Donegal 49.1 per 100k
Glenties 87.8 per 100k
milford 116.2 per 100k
lifford stanolar 189.3 per 100k
letterkenny 231.6 per 100k
carndonagh 489.3 per 100k
buncrana 608.1 per 100k

The mica trip to Dublin must be a contributing factor to these numbers not withstanding the cross border element. I'd say over two thirds of the attendees outside the Dept of an Taoiseach building had no masks on by the end of the event. Add in the good old sing song.

malinheader · 04-07-2021 10:41pm

babybuilder wrote: »

The mica trip to Dublin must be a contributing factor to these numbers not withstanding the cross border element. I'd say over two thirds of the attendees outside the Dept of an Taoiseach building had no masks on by the end of the event. Add in the good old sing song.

Just think if some of the politicians and even our own local agriculture minister had come to meet the people properly and listen to them seriously and really fight for them in Dublin there would of been no need for a March.

babybuilder · 04-07-2021 11:49pm

malinheader wrote: »

Just think if some of the politicians and even our own local agriculture minister had come to meet the people properly and listen to them seriously and really fight for them in Dublin there would of been no need for a March.

Absolutely. Just pointing out the obvious. I was there myself. I didn't take my mask off and tried to keep my distance. Unfortunately while distance etiquette couldn't be maintained people should have kept their masks on.

muffler · 14-07-2021 12:39am

It might be safe to post here again

CastorTroy · 15-07-2021 6:07pm

Yep, I got my second jab on Tuesday so they were able to reopen the site to me again

lulu1 · 15-07-2021 6:25pm

Neighbours both got their second jab 2 weeks ago tested positive for covid after been in contact with their son who had it

Moragle · 15-07-2021 7:48pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117616106#Comment_117616106

Most of the vaccines bar Pfizer take 14 days to give you immunity, 7 days for Pfizer. So you're still at risk until the 14 days pass

kathleen37 · 16-07-2021 8:31am

Yes, it's unfortunate. But the fact they have had their vaccines should hopefully protect them from reacting very badly and ending up in hospital.

Nollog · 16-07-2021 10:23am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117616106#Comment_117616106

Did they have bad symptoms?

I've had one vaccination so far myself.

lulu1 · 16-07-2021 12:33pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117618785#Comment_117618785

No very mild symptoms

Nollog · 17-07-2021 7:48am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117619399#Comment_117619399

The vaccine worked great for them then.

Tyrone212 · 22-07-2021 8:25pm

North Inishowen now has the highest Covid 19 incidence rate in the country at almost 2,000 cases per 100,000 people.

South Inishowen is the second highest with a rate of just over 1,200.

muffler · 22-07-2021 10:26pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648666#Comment_117648666

and did I read that Donegal has the highest incidence rate?

Tyrone212 · 22-07-2021 10:31pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117649155#Comment_117649155

A couple of days ago I think it was 725 per 100k. Next county was around 300.

jaffa20 · 22-07-2021 10:31pm

Ah great, i'm going to Buncrana area next week for a mini break. Does anyone know what it's like in Derry? This must be a cross border thing why rates are so high.

Moragle · 22-07-2021 11:20pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117649182#Comment_117649182

Very high rates in Derry thats why inishowen is so high

ednwireland · 28-07-2021 5:54pm

you can zoom into the rates on Covid in Ireland: How many cases are in your area? (breakingnews.ie)

but thats nearly a week old at this point

NIMAN · 29-07-2021 1:42pm

Breaking news.ie nearly a week out of date.

Kinda sums up that website.

ednwireland · 29-07-2021 1:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117678307#Comment_117678307

lol gov covid site only goes upto 19/07

redt0m · 30-07-2021 9:57am

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/covid-hotspots-how-many-cases-in-your-area-1164969.html

Tyrone212 · 30-07-2021 11:38am

Carndonagh will have a vaccine walk in centre on Monday morning. Letterkenny hosting it on Saturday. No appointment needed.

NIMAN · 06-08-2021 12:10pm

Carn highest in country, with 2100 per 100,000. Shockingly high.

Think Buncrana 2nd too.

Derry very high too, with hospital under severe pressure.

timmyntc · 06-08-2021 12:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117714848#Comment_117714848

If hospital numbers for Letterkenny aren't too high then what difference does it make?

Case numbers are no longer an important metric as most people are vaccinated.

NIMAN · 06-08-2021 12:17pm

Agree to an extent, but increasing numbers will mean increasing hospitalizations. ICU numbers were at 15 about a month ago, I noticed on the news last night they are nudging towards 30.

I now have personal experience of this, a family member is in hospital for approaching a fortnight, and they were very ill when admitted.

A 51yr old man died in hospital this week from it too in Derry. A father and grandfather.

RandomViewer · 14-08-2021 8:07pm

Some kind of anti-vax protest in the Square today, some woman with a Dub-ill-in accent shouting about trillionaires

NIMAN · 15-08-2021 10:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117754709#Comment_117754709

Anti vax idiots in Derry harassing pregnant women waiting to get vaccinated.

Whatever happened to personal choice. Obviously some folk think they can tell you what to do with your own body.

RandomViewer · 19-09-2021 11:25am

The Italian anti-vax guy removing the covid patient from the hospital unsettling

StillThinking · 19-09-2021 2:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117910491#Comment_117910491

I heard the man died a few days ago but just seen he's alive and in ICU in Letterkenny and his family have apologised to staff. No idea what to believe now

NIMAN · 19-09-2021 10:51pm

Also was told yesterday he had died, but I hadn't heard the story up to that point.

We live in a crazy world where nutters off the internet are coming and taking seriously ill people out of hospital and they agree. The medical staff can only advise. If people don't take their opinion, then what can they do.

Hope that man pulls through, but of course should he die the nutters will say the hospital killed him.

NIMAN · 20-09-2021 10:40am

Does anyone know if there is a walk in testing centre open in Buncrana?

There is an option online to book an appt from 230pm onwards, but other details say its open from 11am.

Penfailed · 20-09-2021 12:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117914192#Comment_117914192

I used to be a non-appointment walk in centre but I think it's for bookings now. I don't think they'd turn you away though...

RandomViewer · 24-09-2021 11:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117913253#Comment_117913253

He died today 24/9

NIMAN · 25-09-2021 9:19am

Very sad, may he rest in peace.

No doubt his case is going to make the media now, used by both sides.

firemansam4 · 25-09-2021 2:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117936480#Comment_117936480

I agree with your sentiment, and I hope his death doesn't be used by anyone.

However the two sides in this are on one hand medical professionals who are trying to do the best they can to save peoples lives.

And on the other are a bunch of nutters causing chaos at the hospital acusing their staff of trying to kill people.

Heighway61 · 02-12-2021 6:33pm

Got an appointment for Saturday which I'm delighted about. It's Pfizer but thinking I would rather Moderna if possible. Anyone get Moderna and at which centre?

muffler · 02-12-2021 7:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118258301#Comment_118258301

I've merged your thread with this existing thread on all things Coronavirus related.

My wife got hers at the clinic on the Kilmacrennan Road, Letterkenny a couple of weeks ago and it was the Pfizer booster. She got an appointment text from the HSE before that stating she would get either Pfizer or Moderna but she didn't have a choice on the day.

malinheader · 02-12-2021 7:57pm

I recieved a text message yesterday for flu and covid booster in Clonmany on the 7th of December.

Booster available to anyone over 50 who wanted 1st vaccine or received there 1st injection 5 months ago or more.

No mention of what vaccine.

dinorebel · 02-12-2021 11:48pm

Wife works in a Letterkenny school 14 of 29 pupils out today with 2 confirmed cases but according to the government it's kids parties not schools that's the problem.

malinheader · 03-12-2021 6:51pm

My other half was out shopping today and enquired in the local chemist about the booster.

Recieved it there and then. Pfizer.

muffler · 03-12-2021 7:06pm

Just got my appointment (text) for Tuesday morning next in Letterkenny. Im getting the Moderna jab.

Heighway61 · 03-12-2021 7:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118264645#Comment_118264645

I'll swap you. :)

muffler · 03-12-2021 8:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118264895#Comment_118264895

Hah! I think I'll hold onto the Moderna. ☺️

29-12-2021 5:13pm

Does anyone know if there are plans to increase pcr testing in Donegal?

Ive just spent 36 hrs trying to book a pcr test for my daughter, who has symptoms, and a positive antigen test. No tests available yesterday, today, or tomorrow, either.

So, how is anyone meant to qualify for a temporary covid payment, if they can't get a test? For that matter, how are the unvaccinated meant to get proof of recovery, either?

At this rate, she'll be testing negative by the time she gets a test.

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