Covid-19: 10,753 positive PCRs, 4,208 positive antigen tests, 965 in hospital and 88 in ICU

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  1. A Saturday increase of Covid positive inpatients of just 25? Remarkable.

    Looks like we’ve peaked. Time to do away with the restrictions that have been introduced the past 2 months.

    The government needs to acknowledge that the vaccines do work, and this disease is endemic.

    EDIT: What was hilarious was listening to Prof. McConkey talking about lifting opening-hours restrictions in “a few months”, and hopefully music festivals in the summer. No wonder Infectious Disease has a reputation as being full of joyless nerds.

  2. **Cases in ICU**

    – Today: 88 (-1)

    – Admissions: 6

    – Discharges: 2

    – Week-on-week change in ICU admissions: +25.0%

    – ICU admissions not fully vaxed (in the 8 weeks up to 2021-11-20): 58.9%

    **Cases in Hospital**

    – Today: 965 (+25)

    – New Covid-19-positive admissions: 64

    – New cases in hospital: 117

    – Discharges: 57

    – Week-on-week change in new Covid-19-positive admissions: -4.7%

    – Week-on-week change in new cases in hospital: -3.2%

    **Reported Deaths**

    – This week (up to 2022-01-12): 83 (+43)

    – Week-on-week change: +107.5%

    **PCR Confirmed Cases**

    – Today: 10753 (-3802)

    – Week-on-week change: -16.0%

    **PCR Testing**

    – Not available at weekends.

    **Boosters/Third Doses**

    – Total administered (as of 2022-01-15): 2552662

    – Percentage of total population: 51.2%

    – Week-on-week absolute increase in boosted population: +2.5%

    *Stats calculated from data at* [GeoHive](https://covid-19.geohive.ie). *ICU vax status data from* [HPSC](https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/vaccinationstatusweeklyreports/)*.*

  3. Looking at the number of cases in the uk still heading down as fast as they increased now 70 thousand new cases a week or two ago it was 200 thousand and no sign of this drop slowing even in south africa the number of cases continue to drop. Also in the UK the number of hospitalizations are heading down for the past few days

  4. How many are in hospital with covid and how many are in “BECAUSE” of covid that’s t b e question that needs to be answered.

  5. It’s crazy that I got down votes when it was stated in the Dail that is someone has come into hospital with a broken leg and tests positive that get recorded as a covid case it’s a fact not fiction.

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