Kilkee says no
I’d be praying for Wuhan too. What happens there over the next few weeks will have ramifications for the rest of us I presume 
The Nursing Home situation is not looking good. Really need to get a handle on it
Good news lads. And Ze Germans have one of the most comprehensive testing regimes in the World. 0.37% fatality rate and three times more people had it than they had estimated. Which itself was an estimate including people they didn’t know had it.
Scientists and politicians in Germany have this morning presented some fascinating preliminary findings of a forensic study of the outbreak in the Heinsberg municipality on the Dutch border, which has been called “Germany’s Wuhan”.
For the “Covid-19 case cluster study”, scientists from the university of Bonn went back to the town that saw the first two fatalities from the virus in Germany and interviewed and tested 1,000 residents. Researchers are also trying to work out exactly how the virus got transmitted at a carnival eventin the area on 15 February.
After analysing around half of the tests, the study’s director, Prof Hendrick Streeck said on Thursday morning that 14% of the population in the area had developed immunity after contracting the novel coronavirus. Previous estimated had put the infection rate at only around 5%.
Streeck said the fatality case rate of the virus in the area had also turned out to be considerably lower than the currently currently registered for the country as a whole. In Heinsberg, only 0.37% of people who contracted the virus had died.
The latest figure for Germany as a whole, as calculated by Johns Hopkins University, is 1.98%.
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Relaxed
My other half does a bit of music for old folks homes near her, she got a call yesterday from one place saying they had four deaths over the previous 24 hours. It’s only starting for them.
This thing is wicked infectious. I’m not sure it’s possible to stop it getting into nursing homes, unless you lock the carers in with them
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Whether lads agree or not, carers staying on site was pretty much a must from the get go imo.
Or else, families should have been asked to take relatives back home if health of residents allowed so.
Fuck
Dammit
Ya, but what about the carers families etc
100 may seem high but there are a lot of nursing homes, 22 private & 2 public in Limerick alone.
There is quite a way to go yet before nursing homes get over this
What about families of Medics?
What’s a reasonable number of total no of nursing homes in the south? 500-600?
460
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That’s a scary number so when it’s just healthcare workers visiting.
Yeah I don’t see a way around it. The horse may have bolted now too for many of these
Are a lot of these places just legalised euthanasia clinics anyway? Thought they just dosed old people with sedatives and wait til they die.
Sorry if posted already - But what are our figures for deaths outside nursing homes?
No clusters from pubs in the Eastern region. So 4 weeks on from the shut down, all this hysteria about Temple Bar, was just that.
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