That data is about 6 months old now and looks hopelessly out of date.
Remember when 14 minutes and you were safe.
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12,226 tests in the last 24 hours.
250 of those were positive. Approx 2.4 %
Ireland has about 200 reported cases a day, so at that rate 9,000 cases in the past 30 days. If the 15% and 5% were true there would be roughly 900 hospitalized and 300 in ICU. Do we have the actual numbers for people in hospital and ICU or is that data a secret? According to the worldometers site there are 7 people in critical condition in Ireland.
The 15 minutes “rule” was such a load of utter bollox among numerous other examples from the WHO.
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Looks like infection mortality rate of 0.17 per cent. It’s not clear how many people have symptoms or get ill enough to require medical intervention.
In total, 1.4% of people have ended up in ICU in Ireland. That’s with very little relative testing in February and March.
It’s been wrong for months but RTÉ still report it. The 15 minute thing is still there too.
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The number of people reported as competely asymptomatic Is steadily rising and seems to be over 50 per cent now. It’s in truth likely to be much higher.
Why won’t NPHET provide that breakdown
China does not count an asymptomatic infection as a case which is consistent with how other diseases have been reported on pre Covid.
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It can’t be that hard to track surely with such low numbers. Of the 250 that tested positive on September 11, how many over the next 2 - 3 weeks ended up in hospital? According to the WHO quote it should be 37 - 38. I’d wager it isn’t more than 5-10.
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It’s the numbers currently being hospitalized that matter though, is that reported daily?
When all is said and done herd immunity will have proven to be the only strategy that should have been pursued.
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Which was actually clear in April. The Boston homeless shelter showed up in that month.
Myself and @Tierneevin1979 were talking about this back then. It’s unbelievable that RTÉ still are posting wrong data.
After a draconian lockdown with people required to have signed bits of paper to go to the shop, France have lifted restrictions recently and are now running at almost 10,000 cases a day. An exercise in futility.
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The lockdown at start made sense to buy time to build testing capacity and to allow health care providers build systems and processes to manage this.
Six months later we have testing capacity issues and are being told to only have people from two and not three households to visit.
Media need to ask why testing capacity has not been adequate.
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Yeah it is and it’s low. Admissions have gone up by 35 in a month. ICU admissions of 5 or 6 out 3k cases. The point on 1.4% overall is even with little testing it was that low.
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159 cases
2 deaths
75 in Dublin, 10 in Louth, 6 in Cork, 6 in Donegal, 6 in Meath, 5 in Laois, 5 in Wexford, and the remaining 46 cases are in Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Mayo, Offaly, Roscommon, Tipperary, WATERFORD, Westmeath and Wicklow.
What’s driving the surge in cases in Louth?
The Goodman family have caught it.
No such luck
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Did many posters attend this rally?
I saw a video online and there was more than a small crew anyway. Few thousand easy. @Tank has got the people mobilised
And those 250 have a 99.83% chance of surviving this , obviously if any of those folk are infirm, of an age > than mean life expectancy and residing in a nursing home their chances of survival would be would be less.
It would be interesting if NEPHET would publish two things
- the % of positive tests who end up in hospital broken by age
- the % of positive tests that die broken by age( we know this is 0.17% overall)
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