Edit: Lol, down voted for this type of comment is great craic
Not great, not terrible either.
Trending down, happy days
but how many of hospitalisations and icu patients are new?
I thought i remembered icu beds being 90-93 last week.
am I wrong?
Really hard to say where we are with actual cases at this point.
Booking a PCR test is nigh on impossible. Antigen tests can be now used for claiming Enhanced Illness Benefit from work.
In the last week or two the mentality towards antigen tests has changed and is being treated more like a confirmation of covid by the public. It has essentially become the default test.
With a positive antigen test being accepted as proof of Covid-19 infection, what we’re seeing in confirmed cases is only a piece of a much larger picture.
Which has its pros and cons.
Pro being people can quickly test and self isolate, con being it’s potentially harder to track outbreaks and that unfortunately there’s people out there who won’t use antigen tests correctly.
Which might seems crazy but take into account the amount of people who still can’t wear a mask correctly.
There’s gonna be people who put the swab barely into their nose for a split second because they don’t like the feel of it and call it a day. Or just straight up contaminate the testing kit.
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This sub always makes me laugh.
“Ignore cases, it’s hospitalisations we need to look at!”
*hospitalisations increase 80% in two weeks*
“Sure this is grand, cases falling again!”
Divisible
When do we go back to normal?
Iv to self isolate because I’m close contact, but I can’t sign on for a payment because the close contact cant get a PCR test done. Anyone have advice?
I wonder what the actual number of active covid cases there are, nobody can get PCR tests
Are we actually predicted to peak this week or is that just a baseless online rumor?
Close the dry cleaners
The fact that with no PCRs available and so few recorded antigens, we’re still at 16k a day, shows how rampant it is. We’re probably at 40,000 in reality. When schools open it’ll tear them.
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Incompetent HSE can’t just count number of people trying to register for a PCR and use the positivity rate from testing to get a guesstimate of the number. I’m 5 days trying to get a test.
Country going about their business thinking everything is great and on the mend. Nobody needs to know exact number but we need some idea.
No way is this anywhere near accurate
Herd immunity inbound
In the UK they seem to be a bit more forward thinking with the stats then us. Some of this may be political to save face and they were never really good with testing early on. But the hospital and ICU numbers really should be broken down further. If someone is in hospital to get their hip done and COVID is not the reason for admission then counting them in these numbers is not very accurate and makes it look much worse. Now I just got my booster today and that part of it all is running well but reading an articles in the UK press saying that 1/5 of admissions are actually for COVID and the rest are incidental aka people who tested positive but are in there for something else.
You could argue that what if someone develops worse symptoms while in hospital and then they are in for COVID. This is true but keeping track of the reason for the continued stay of 900 people in hospitals is well within the remit of the HSE.
If we are to take the 1/5 we are saying from the UK then this could be 161 and 19 in ICU due to COVID and the rest incidental cases. I am just saying in hospital with COVID is very very different to admitted for COVID especially with the new variant. With 19 in ICU making the case to keep so many things closed would be hard to do.
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Oh shit.
Good to see two days of drops in a row 🤞
Edit: Lol, down voted for this type of comment is great craic
Not great, not terrible either.
Trending down, happy days
but how many of hospitalisations and icu patients are new?
I thought i remembered icu beds being 90-93 last week.
am I wrong?
Really hard to say where we are with actual cases at this point.
Booking a PCR test is nigh on impossible. Antigen tests can be now used for claiming Enhanced Illness Benefit from work.
In the last week or two the mentality towards antigen tests has changed and is being treated more like a confirmation of covid by the public. It has essentially become the default test.
With a positive antigen test being accepted as proof of Covid-19 infection, what we’re seeing in confirmed cases is only a piece of a much larger picture.
Which has its pros and cons.
Pro being people can quickly test and self isolate, con being it’s potentially harder to track outbreaks and that unfortunately there’s people out there who won’t use antigen tests correctly.
Which might seems crazy but take into account the amount of people who still can’t wear a mask correctly.
There’s gonna be people who put the swab barely into their nose for a split second because they don’t like the feel of it and call it a day. Or just straight up contaminate the testing kit.
[deleted]
This sub always makes me laugh.
“Ignore cases, it’s hospitalisations we need to look at!”
*hospitalisations increase 80% in two weeks*
“Sure this is grand, cases falling again!”
Divisible
When do we go back to normal?
Iv to self isolate because I’m close contact, but I can’t sign on for a payment because the close contact cant get a PCR test done. Anyone have advice?
I wonder what the actual number of active covid cases there are, nobody can get PCR tests
Are we actually predicted to peak this week or is that just a baseless online rumor?
Close the dry cleaners
The fact that with no PCRs available and so few recorded antigens, we’re still at 16k a day, shows how rampant it is. We’re probably at 40,000 in reality. When schools open it’ll tear them.
[deleted]
Incompetent HSE can’t just count number of people trying to register for a PCR and use the positivity rate from testing to get a guesstimate of the number. I’m 5 days trying to get a test.
Country going about their business thinking everything is great and on the mend. Nobody needs to know exact number but we need some idea.
No way is this anywhere near accurate
Herd immunity inbound
In the UK they seem to be a bit more forward thinking with the stats then us. Some of this may be political to save face and they were never really good with testing early on. But the hospital and ICU numbers really should be broken down further. If someone is in hospital to get their hip done and COVID is not the reason for admission then counting them in these numbers is not very accurate and makes it look much worse. Now I just got my booster today and that part of it all is running well but reading an articles in the UK press saying that 1/5 of admissions are actually for COVID and the rest are incidental aka people who tested positive but are in there for something else.
You could argue that what if someone develops worse symptoms while in hospital and then they are in for COVID. This is true but keeping track of the reason for the continued stay of 900 people in hospitals is well within the remit of the HSE.
If we are to take the 1/5 we are saying from the UK then this could be 161 and 19 in ICU due to COVID and the rest incidental cases. I am just saying in hospital with COVID is very very different to admitted for COVID especially with the new variant. With 19 in ICU making the case to keep so many things closed would be hard to do.
Down down down covid going down
https://youtu.be/zTF-5EvjHJQ
**Cases in ICU**
– Today: 93 (+6)
– Admissions: 6
– Discharges: 1
– Week-on-week change in ICU admissions: +22.9%
– ICU admissions not fully vaxed (in the 8 weeks up to 2021-11-20): 58.9%
**Cases in Hospital**
– Today: 804 (+87)
– New Covid-19-positive admissions: 77
– Discharges: 30
– New cases in hospital: 124
– Week-on-week change in new cases in hospital: +95.3%
**Reported Deaths**
– This week (up to 2021-12-29): 22 (-33)
– Week-on-week change: -60.0%
**Confirmed Cases**
– Today: 16986 (-85)
– Week-on-week change: +102.1%
**PCR Testing**
– Total positive swabs today: 22099 (+61)
– Percentage of swabs positive today: 49.8%
– 7-day positivity rate: 43.4%
– Week-on-week absolute change in 7-day positivity rate: +23.7%
**Boosters/Third Doses**
– Total administered (as of 2022-01-02): 2186344
– Percentage of total population: 43.9%
– Week-on-week absolute increase in boosted population: +3.5%
*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/)*.*
>1***69***86
Nice.