Covid-19: 2,950 new cases, 536 patients in hospital

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  1. I know of one lad who’s has been in ICU the past 6 weeks who passed away today from covid. It’s sad especially cos he was only in his mid 30s.

  2. **Cases in ICU**

    – Today: 110 (+0)

    – Admissions: 7

    – Discharges: 4

    – Week-on-week change in ICU admissions: -14.8%

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

    **Cases in Hospital**

    – Today: 536 (+33)

    – New cases in hospital: 49

    – Discharges: 19

    – Week-on-week change in new cases in hospital: +10.7%

    **Reported Deaths**

    – This week (up to 2021-12-01): 55 (+12)

    – Week-on-week change: +27.9%

    **Confirmed Cases**

    – Today: 2950 (-2206)

    – Week-on-week change: +8.3%

    **PCR Testing**

    – Total positive swabs today: 4967 (+460)

    – Percentage of swabs positive today: 16.8%

    – 7-day positivity rate: 14.8%

    – Week-on-week absolute change in 7-day positivity rate: +0.5%

    **Boosters/Third Doses**

    – Total administered (as of 2021-12-05): 983005

    – Percentage of total population: 19.7%

    – Week-on-week absolute increase in boosted population: +3.9%

    *”Week-on-week change” is the total for the most recent 7 days, relative to the total for the preceding 7 days.
    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. RTÉ [reports](https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/1206/1265024-antigen-ireland/) that

    >There are 536 patients with the virus in hospital, an increase of 33 from yesterday, with 110 in intensive care.

    I wonder why they compared today’s to yesterday’s in-patient numbers when it is an increase from yesterday, but didn’t feel it necessary to extend the same comparison to the intensive care patients, which shows a decrease from yesterday?

    Curiously, they *did* feel it necessary to note the change from the previous day’s intensive care patient numbers on yesterday’s report, which was an increase.

    Not normal journalism.

  4. Anyone know is there a difference in admittance to ICU/hospital between Ireland and NI.

    They have an ICU rate of almost 1 in 10 for all hospitalisations whereas ours is 1 in 5 which I find extremely odd unless AZ is actually a better vaccine.

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