Covid-19: 7,333 cases, 410 patients in hospital

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  1. Not to tinfoil hat it but a backlog of like 3000 has inexplicably built over the past few days. It’s odd that then we see them work through the backlog just as they deliver bad news

  2. This includes a huge backlog of cases which were conveniently held back to suit today’s narrative. The good news is that hospital numbers are down again. Current restrictions are still unjustified.

  3. Down to 410 in hospital. Boosters working. Ignore the manipulated headline cases number which doesn’t accurately reflect the last 24 hours.

  4. **Cases in ICU**

    – Today: 107 (+2)

    – Admissions: 6

    – Discharges: 5

    – Week-on-week change in ICU admissions: +6.5%

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

    **Cases in Hospital**

    – Today: 410 (-10)

    – New cases in hospital: 46

    – Discharges: 42

    – Week-on-week change in new cases in hospital: -20.0%

    **Reported Deaths**

    – This week (up to 2021-12-15): 47 (-34)

    – Week-on-week change: -42.0%

    **Confirmed Cases**

    – Today: 7333 (+3705)

    – Week-on-week change: +8.6%

    **Boosters/Third Doses**

    – Total administered (as of 2021-12-17): 1462167

    – Percentage of total population: 29.3%

    – Week-on-week absolute increase in boosted population: +5.8%

    *”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/)*.*

  5. Currently deaths in South Africa have yet to explode like cases. There are differences between our demographics and the nature of immunity in either population however. We’ll know soon enough just how extreme or not future measures will need to be.

  6. G’wan the Omicron! In all seriousness though, can people shut up about not getting a pint after 8pm now.

  7. Under the latest restrictions if someone is deemed a close contact at work , do they also have to restrict for the 5 days ? Having a hard time finding what the latest is if you arent a household close contact.

  8. Oh! You better watch out

    You better not dine

    No pubs for stout, or people might die

    Omicron is coming to town!

  9. I’m expecting to be 1 of these numbers tomorrow…. woke up yesterday with a terrible headache maybe one of the worst I ever had and felt exhausted…done an antigen test and it was negative then I woke up this morning feeling worse and done another antigen which came up positive and got my pcr test at 2 today.

    I’m double vaxed and always wear a mask but others in my work place literally don’t care lately with an outbreak happening! Looks like Christmas in isolation for me.

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