Ireland was the worst small country for Covid infections in the world in 2021.

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  3. What’s the figure for deaths? Isn’t that the main thing. The criteria for testing is so different country to country that comparing case numbers like this is close to meaningless. And using a word like ‘worst’ is deliberately inflammatory.

    Excess mortality would be an interesting comparison.

  5. This is ridiculous. We have one of the lowest death rates in Europe which shows how well we handled it despite our cases being so high. Nearly all the countries who have done well according to that are developing and presumably don’t have the testing infrastructure that we do.

  6. It’s so weird that this the case even though we had a harsh lockdown for ages. Are we just weaker immunity wise or do we socialise a lot more than other countries?

  7. Ireland has a very low rate of testing. Leads to low quality of data.

    It’s like Pascal wants to do the pandemic on the cheap.

    Suggestion: Some of our horseracing billionaires could weigh in with a few dolla for testing popups – if they want to get the day at the races back!

  8. Because its joined to the UK via NI. Thy’re doing more than us but it’s mostly in vain sine we in the North can go freeley between IRL and GB.

  13. I’m fairly sceptical if that data to be honest. Granted, the link below is over the whole pandemic but itg has as 21st in cases per mn, and 74th in deaths per mn, with many nations above us being of a similar size or smaller: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    Added to that, an awful lot of our cases have been recent Omicron ones in a nation something like 95% vaccinated among over 12s, which appears to pose a *much* lower risk than original/alpha/delta, and of course a much lower risk than any of those three (or Omicron) without vaccination. Hence why our ICUs have been going down, and our current rolling avg for deaths is as 3 per day.

    Not to say the government’s job at handling the last 15 months or so has been anything shy of a disgrace for the most part, just that the tweet in the OP seems a bit needlessly sensationalist.

  15. No track and trace set up , pathetic really. My sister in law works in the HSE , i said the track and trace needs to be improved. She nearly bit my head off… “improved … it doesn’t exist, our health system is rubbish”

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