The number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 has risen to 619 today. This is an increase of 51, since yesterday morning.

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  1. The number of people in hospital with Covid was 881 at the peak of the first wave. This is slightly concerning…

  3. Until last week cases have largely been around the same for weeks and thanks to vaccines (and a potentially weaker variant) hospital numbers hadn’t jumped.

    * Week 46 – 30,538

    * Week 47 – 31,103

    * Week 48 – 34,231

    * Week 49 – 29,500

    * Week 50 – 33,036

    * Week 51 – 59,147

    People need to think of it as **X amount of cases leads to Y amount of hospital cases.** Vaccines lowered the Y value but now cases are insanely high so the Y value is bound to rise too.

    It’s purely a numbers game.

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    We won’t see how this effects ICU for quite a while. It takes time to go from having covid to then going to the hospital to then moving to ICU.

    It also shows that ***vaccines have been a literal lifesaver***. It’s scary to think of the kind of hospital numbers we would be looking at right now without a vaccine.

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    Also to note, higher hospital admissions doesn’t just potentially lead to deaths in regards to covid.

    Higher hospital admissions means recourses in hospitals are further stretched thin, staff burn out faster and non covid patients in need of treatment are also more at risk.

    It has a knock on effect on all parts of our health service.

    For example: [**Calls to curtail all activity except urgent care as pressure mounts on hospital system**](https://www.thejournal.ie/covid-outbreak-limerick-maternity-hospital-restrictions-5643035-Dec2021/)

  5. There’s a marked difference between in hospital because of Covid, or in hospital for something unrelated and happening to test positive. Naturally similar precautions are required, but saying 619 people are in hospital with Covid (without any distinction) is unduly unclear. And the Dept, CMO and authorities must know the split. And it matters.

  8. Guess it wasn’t the mild sniffles for the these 51

    As someone someone who lives with people with underlying illnesses we just cant trust anyone at the moment , even my friend’s are blatantly ignoring if they’re close contacts. Zero days isolation , going to the gym , pubs when they know they’re possibly infecting people. The numbers at peak are going to be massive

    Ah sure its only mild , Not for everyone you selfish pricks

  13. Where is the head of the vintners association when we really need their expertise? Funny how these guys always disappear when hospital/deaths rate start to go up. Same with the Irish hotels federation. They were doing interviews with every media outlet before Christmas explaining how our national covid response should operate.

  14. I currently have 4 family members with. Two healthy and two with underlying conditions. The two healthy ones have what amounts to a bad head cold while the two with underlying conditions are bed ridden coughing their guts up and too sick to eat. Keep that in mind when you are talking about Omicron being mild. It isn’t mild for everyone.

    Also as an aside none of the four have lost there sense of taste and smell. Whatever covid was doing to the olfactory system before it seems Omicron has stopped.

  15. Wonder how many of these admissions are people let out of hospital or checked themselves out of hospital to go home for Xmas and no going back in

  17. For every doomer intending to cite this statistic as an example of how grave the current situation is:

    On November 1st, NPHET were projecting 1,000 people in hospital because of Covid by *December 1st*. And that was their *best-case* scenario.

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