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PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS have confirmed 1,377 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
The Department of Health has reported that 78 patients with the illness are in hospital today, including 22 in intensive care.
Data relating to the number of deaths associated with the coronavirus disease, as well as case numbers by county, have been affected by the cyber attack on the HSE IT systems.
Yesterday there were 1,173 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Meanwhile, with some 110,673 vaccines administered yesterday, 73.8% of the population aged 16 or over have now received at least one dose,
60.6% are fully vaccinated, according to new data.
Yesterday, Chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group Professor Philip Nolan called the rise in cases among those aged 16 to 18 “exceptional”.
In a video posted on the Department of Health’s Twitter page, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Ronan Glynn said: “Unfortunately our incidence has now risen to over 180 per 100,000 cases and we’re reporting a five-day average of cases of over 800 cases per day, and that’s the highest it’s been since the beginning of February.”
There is a particularly high incidence rate among people aged 16 to 30, Glynn said.
“I know that people have taken great hope from the fact that our vaccination programme is rolling out really quickly”, he added. “Despite that we still have over two and a half million adults and children in this country who are not fully protected.”
He asked people who were not vaccinated to be “really careful about indoor settings”.
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Its time to live it. Get over it. Vaccines are on the way. Loads loads of folks have been vaccinated. It’s over.
@Galicki Digital: over 60% are fully vaccinated, with just under 40% not being so, it would be crazy to undo all the good work done to date by easing measures too soon
@Galicki Digital: vaccines dont fully prevent covid 5% of positive cases were in fully vaccinated people. On top of this they can also carry and spread covid meaning those younger and unvaccinated are now making up the majority of hospital cases vetoing the idea that the young cannot get ill or seriously ill from this as was always the case.
@Sinead Merrigan: it’s over. We are in the way way better position than year ago. The cases should be ignored except deaths.
@Stephen Kearon: 60% of adults.
@Sinead Merrigan: you are right the COVID-19 Vaccine will not stop us from getting the virus, so it the flu we have to let this virus run it course
@Stephen Kearon: how will the good work be undone?!?! Can the vaccine be removed from people?
@Galicki Digital: time to “live it” as you put it is when everyones vaccinated or as many people as can be vaccinated are vaccinated. I dont understand the mentality of people who after 16 months of restrictions while we awaited the hope of a vaccine program then want to give up 2 or 3 months from completion and throw it all away. Like honestly what’s wrong with people.
@Galicki Digital: you gob#hit#
@Sinead Merrigan: sources please
@Sinead Merrigan: theres 22 ppl in ICU in a population of 5 million. Wtf are you on about young people are getting seriously ill. That opinion is are everything that’s wrong.
@Galicki Digital: No its not!
The variations will keep mutating for a good bit. Vaccines will have to be updated.
@Stephen Kearon: Here is a study from Wuhan were they followed up on about 10 million people. It shows that asymptotic positive tested people, tested with PCR test are incapable of spreading the Corona virus.
Of course you won’t see that in the mainstream media, data is out there folks.
@Sean O’Doherty: over 1 million children as of 2019 census, that’s a lot that are nowhere near getting a vaccine.
@Paul Hedderman: No, the vaccine can’t be removed from people, but if every country followed the UK’s example with this ‘Freedom Day’ boIIox then the resulting rise in cases worldwide would greatly increase the chances of new variants arising, and possibly one that could bypass the protections offered by vaccines. If that happens then that variant will become dominant. Guess what happen then ?
@Galicki Digital: 1377 cases and its over????
@Sinead Merrigan: a 95% success rate is enough to generate herd immunity. As long as the R value isn’t greater than 20.
@Sinead Merrigan: we don’t know who is in hospital. Since it’s not tracking cases it’s probably not young people.
@Galicki Digital: A 52% increase in cases says otherwise.
@Galicki Digital: You really do not have a clue. Do you. Long Covid is their worry now.
@Ronan Fahy: what is “wrong” with people is goalpost shifting. A quick 2 week shutdown to flatten the curve becomes a full year of protecting the vulnerable until the vaccines actually protect the vulnerable. Now that’ that’s achieved the new story is to protect the young – who don’t want to be protected – from the unverifiable long covid. Given this logic it’s clear that when we are 100% vaccinated and there are still breakthrough cases, as there will be, there will be demands for lockdowns, partially and fully, for every new outbreak or variant. Time to end it now.
@Paul Scully: Its like the flu in that it is a virus. Apart from that the situation is completely different.
@Nothing_player: Have you read the reports about the spread of the virus in the younger populations around the world. Have you read the report on Long Covid and what it is doing.
Of course not. If you did you would realise that the problems have changed but they are still massive problems.
Ability to cope with the massive increase in people being ill and requiring help. This time there won’t be the safe fatalities but the HSE is going to get a kicking, again.
@Blue Avians: I can cherry pick from that report as well, here is one line “This study has several limitations that need to be discussed.”
One report with issues does not make it a fact.
@john smith iv: It is in other countries!
@joe doyle: Please trolly give me a one reason.
@Pat Andrews: Yes, is it so hard to believe? Year ago we were in much worse condition than today without vaccines and hope.
@john smith iv: that has not been achieved yet , 60-70 year olds nearly done but need 2 more weeks
@Gary Kearney: There are no verified reports of long covid. It’s all theory. None of it has been compared. Time for the permanent afraid to get out from under the bed and live.
@Galicki Digital: repeating “its over” to anyone with an above double digit IQ will have little impact. Maybe Gemma has a comment board on her website where people post nonsense and no one calls them on it. You might get more traction there.
@Galicki Digital: what part of 1377 cases don’t you understand?
Over = 0 cases
@Galicki Digital: crass comment . I heard only today of 2 fully vaccinated people (different vaccine in both ) in same family have COVID as do the others in the family so it would be so nice to see adult behaviour talk soon save us from a section of society who will not accept personal responsibility and just like to name call those who are letting us know the facts . Fact this new variant is controllable but not when we have so many adult Tweenies who don’t care until their own family is affected and then I know my rights starts to be shouted looking for instant care !!
@Blue Avians: one study, 14 others showed otherwise, see https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00059-4/fulltext
@Blue Avians: “asymptomatic positive tested people, tested with PCR test are incapable of spreading the coronavirus.” can you copy and paste the exact part of th mat study where they say that? No, because it doesn’t. It does say they’re less likely to spread it than symptomatic people though which isn’t exactly rocket science as symptoms increase the likelihood of spreading.
@Galicki Digital: What, you think 60% of adults is loads of people? What about the other two million, do they not count with you?
@Blue Avians: There is two potential forms of symptomless spread:
1. Rare Asymptomatic spread, a person never develops symptoms
2. Common Pre-symptomatic spread, before a person develops symptoms
About 50%-70% of infections are spread by people just before they develop symptoms, late incubation phase of their illness i.e. pre-symptomatic spread.
“The proportion of presymptomatic transmission ranged from 45.9% (95% CI 42.9% to 49.0%) to 69.1% (95% CI 66.2% to 71.9%).”
Casey, et al., 2021. Presymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a secondary analysis using published data. BMJ Open, 11(6). https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/6/e041240
Young people get it, they recover and life goes on….
@Gerry from the Block: Not with Delta variants.
@Gerry from the Block: between 15 and 20% of young people who get Covid go on to suffer long covid for many months
@Rebecca BarrettNp: you’ll have to fish elsewhere Becks =)
@Stephen Kearon: 15-20% of all young people or 15-20% of those who get a high viral load, because the difference would be large.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the source of this information if you have it.
@Stephen Kearon: Poor young people!!!!….They dont have to go out on the lash with their mates and can take precautions like the majority of the older adults have over the past year and a half. (not all young people obviously)
@Gerry from the Block: they’re deliberately getting it. 14 days later they can get a covid cert and drink indoors. It’s as plain as the nose on your face. They’re also getting tested at much higher levels, hoping to be positive. That’s the unintended but obvious result of the two level decision made
@Gerry from the Block: And your epidemiology degree is from where? And you’ve done all the longitudinal studies to know all the long and short term health implications across various demographics?
@Gerry from the Block: not in 10% of infected cases, they end up with long covid.
@Gerry from the Block: Suggest you talk to an IT nurse first. You might get a shock!!
@JedBartlett: high viral load has zero to do with it. I expressed this option to my doctor who was quick to point out that viral load males no odds. You get it your body reacts and it’s either going to be good, ok or terrible
@Gerry from the Block: 10% of young get long covid which make their life a misery and can include cardiac issues so 10/1 bet if a horse you would say good odds . Young do suffer and some die unfortunately snd it is random in the main
@Tom Ripley: Interesting. I thought the viral load was a factor in the last wave? That it explained why some were briefly exposed and didn’t catch it? Obviously the Delta variant is going to be way more contagious so that’s out of date now.
And indoor dining still going ahead, utter madness!
@Ci: Of course it’s going ahead. Why wouldn’t it? Stop wigging out.
@Ci: and so it should
@Ci: why shouldn’t it? Only vaccinated eating indoors and unvaccinated kids with vaccinated parents.
@Ci: oh go away
@Ci: why. Hospitals numbers have been down every day for the last 3 days
@Robert Clifford: Because we have a 52% increase in cases. Thats wwhy people are worried. That after doing all this hard work we make a mess of it at the very end.
@Roy Dowling: yes, there’s always a lag between an increase in cases and an increase in hospital numbers. I don’t want to speculate but yesterday saw a decrease of one in hospital and an increase of one in ICU and today hospital number has stayed the same but the ICU decreased by one
@Roy Dowling: that’s just not true . We can read bud.
@Ci: it is madness but it is not compulsory
@Roy Dowling: can you share the hospital numbers per day for the last 3 days please?
So basically all the 16 to 18 year olds are making up for lost time and shifting everything that moves.
@Ronan: possibly the most likely reason, I can remember when I was that age, god help anything or anyone who got in the way of a shift
@Ronan: Tony obviously expects them to take precautions like wearing a… mask?
Indoor Hospitality may get the rug pulled from under them next week
@Jeff Nolan: Rubbish
@Robert Clifford: We shall see ….
@Jeff Nolan: if the govt had any sense they’d cancel it for sure
@Ci: yes. but they have already caved in. the opposition parties who have helped push this ‘open up’ agenda have also become part of the problem so that any future criticism from them is over before it even starts
@Ger Moran: Only one party leader has been shouting about that and he likes to be contrary anyway.
@Ci: Why?
Would you want to indoor dine, with these rising cases. Outdoor dining/drinking has been great the last month as long as the weather is good
@Alan Martin: yes I would and will
Show us the stats that matter or don’t show us anything.
@Sean Kirwan: they have given the stats that matter including the number people with first and second jabs. Did you read the article? My guess is you didn’t.
@Sean Kirwan: read it it’s there in nearly every country in the world if you care to read before react
@barry moore: soz lol
No one believing his anymore.
@Dòmhnall Mac Brádaigh: Truth hurts.
@Dòmhnall Mac Brádaigh: I work in the health care sector in NI, unfortunately we’re seeing a noticeable uptick in positive cases and more so in close contact notification. We’re at breaking point due to the amount of staff isolating.
@Dòmhnall Mac Brádaigh: most sensible people are
@Dòmhnall Mac Brádaigh: Yes there are, millions of people and soe governments too. Thailand went back into lockdown.
@Dòmhnall Mac Brádaigh: based on what? Have you got some inside scoup? Any proof or is just that you don’t like the numbers?
Just have to learn to live with it my whole family recovered from it recently and we were all fine just get on with your life and proceed with caution or we be still stressing about it in year’s to come
@Brendan Doherty: I’m all right, Jack attitude must be hard to take for the 5000 plus failies of the people would did not live with it. Or the people who have long term health issues, Long Covid.
Selfish does not describe you, not even close.
@Brendan Doherty: would you say your attitude lewd to your whole family getting covid. How would ya feel if the worst happened to one of them.
@Brendan Doherty: You were all very lucky. Give a thought to the many people who are still getting over attending an online funeral alone.
At what stage will they stop using the cyber attack over two months ago as an excuse for not providing full data? Accurate record keeping existed before the digital age and to claim that it can’t be done today without the use of technology is disingenuous at best. I’m not suggesting that there’s a conspiracy to hide information rather just an unwillingness to be bothered to collate and record it manually. You don’t even need a pen and paper just a few decent laptops and a willingness to try…
@William Tallon: you’re so right but unfortunately this is the hse we’re talking about
@William Tallon: Do you know the size of the system that was hacked and the damage that was done. Of course not as it has not be released.
The staff in the HSE have been fantastic and if it was that easy they would do it.
But it is not. They are stretched everywhere and losing staff to collate information for the press is not high on the list of things to do right now.
@Gary Kearney: Have you ever worked in the Public Service in the pre-digital age where accurate record keeping was as important then as it is now? I have but I doubt if you have. It’s not rocket science. It’s just information. It was recorded manually and efficiently without the aid of technology. There were checks and balances to ensure accuracy. Technology just made it a lot less labour intensive and easier to do. You accuse me of not knowing what’s going on in the HSE and then you go on to pretend you know how the staff in there are going about their work like you have some insight. I’d have to say you really don’t know what you’re talking about. Unless the HSE staff have all suddenly become illiterate there’s no reason this data can’t be made public.
@Gary Kearney: The HSE is a public body with a responsibility to keep the public informed. The way it does this is through the media. So collating and providing information for the public via the media should be very high on their list of priorities…
@William Tallon: the job of the HSE isn’t to keep people informed. The job of the hse is to provide health care. The provision of care to people is a higher. If you were in hospital with serious illness would you rather they physically provide care to you or just provide information about the service they could provide.
Why do they want to vaccinate children for an illness that causes little or no symptoms, very rarely hospitalisations or deaths? When the elderly and vulnerable have been vaccinated to protect themselves. If its just so society can open up its completely unethical.
@Janet Kearin: Rarely so losing some children is OK with you? Children also can carry the virus.
@Janet Kearin: Because once everyone is signed up and in the loop then come the booster shots at a bigger price, already banging on about it .
God help us
I can not believe this man everytime the numbers go down a bit or there’s talk of opening up he starts scaremongering
@Margaret Kane: there’s no scaremongering, it’s just facts.
@Ci: its scaremongering he’s been doing that everytime there’s a whisper about opening up
@Margaret Kane: Do you dislike newscasters because they give bad news too.
@Margaret Kane: He knows more about the reopening than any amount of whispers.
He reports the facts, FACTS. Not whispers.
Would it make a difference if different people announced it everyday. Would you still not trust him then?
@Margaret Kane: the numbers are reported through a secure system. Do you not think it would be the scandal of all scandals if they were fabricated? That’s utterly ridiculous
@Margaret Kane: it’s the department of health that release the case numbers every day, usually report them via Twitter. Nothing to do with the CMO. Just because the journal use his picture, it doesn’t mean it was him releasing the figures. Unfortunately the reality doesn’t support any conspiracy theory bull so will be of little interest to u & others like u
@Margaret Kane: I would actually love to see where you got that theory from, other than the fact that you don’t like the numbers. Is there any suggestion that nphet, the labs or Tony Holohan himself is in any way fabricating or putting out false numbers? Have you got anything at all to back up your outrageous claims?
@Gary Kearney: he’s a scaremonger
@Gary Kearney: what a silly comment
@Margaret Kane: do you have some proof? If not, this is scaremongering on your behalf and defamation against Dr Tony Holohan
@Margaret Kane: very adult way of thinking and writing
Ah now
Deaths, icu and hospital numbers are the main metrics followed then by infection ratea
@Jim Buckley Barrett: all of which are published
@Jim Buckley Barrett: and with hospitalizations and icu numbers increasing rapidly, we need to manage this properly.
@Jim Buckley Barrett: Not any more, the fatality numbers will stay low as most of the very suseptable to the virus are vaccinated and those that are not will take no chances.
The problems are the amount of people getting infected and can the hospitals and the entire health service cope with it. Also long covid can be estimated depending on the definition from 10% to 30% of people infected. That puts a massive strain on a system already with 2 years of backlogs.
Zzzzzz
Masks don’t work, vaccine doesn’t work. Wake up.
@: you forgot to say sheeple
Yeah truthiness! My 5G phone coverage hasn’t gone up one single bar since my vaccination despite what the Illuminati promised. I want my money back. This is a pyramid scheme /0\ !!!
@DJ François: …and don’t forget ‘scamdemic’ and ‘plandemic’.
@: so very very sad !!
We can all try and live as normally as we can, but this goverment will lock us up again gaurenteed!
@Marie Louise Ryan: we have never been locked up. If you were you did it yourself. Owing to personal responsibility
@Marie Louise Ryan: Why were you locked up, what did you do.
Or do you mean the government plan to stop a deadly pandemic a virus that over 5000 people have passed away from and left other with long term health problems.
Oh the lockdown, the same thing that countries did all around the world to some degree or other. Some countries are having to go back into stronger lockdowns at prescent.
Sure the government want to keep business and society locked down forever!!! Why exactly would that be and are all the other governments in it together?
The Beta variant from France is coming, close all windows.
@Kim Steen Hansen: That’s just the South African variant, B.1.351 (501Y.V2), it’s been in Ireland for months and it has not caused problems. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine works very well against it.
“On 5 May 2021, a letter summarizing results from the Qatar National Study Group for COVID-19 Vaccination showed 75% effectiveness against infection, with zero cases of severe disease.”
Most elderly got Pfizer-BioNTech.
@Kim Steen Hansen: B wasn’t a serious variant.
You’d almost think at this stage we are been kept from progressing from some hidden force…..
@Vincent Bickerstaffe: a force like a highly transmissible virus?
@Vincent Bickerstaffe: a scaremongering CMO with delusions of Godhood?
@Stephen Doyle: A man who reports the numbers and explains the technical data of a virula pandemic.
You think it is his idea of a good time!!
@Stephen Doyle: you are such a mature man god bless
Christ
Always high during a record breaking heatwave.
@Joe Ivers: How so? For decades the only increase in disease here was food poisoning in summer. It’s healthy to be out and about in summer.
Yeah another lockdown on the way.
That’s a lot of runny noses
Is there any way to find out if any of the people who are in ICU are vaccinated?
@Fi Wyse: They were asked, said the computer was hacked and had no way of knowing. A total lie.
@Fi Wyse: Varadkar’s speech mentioned that.
Link here: halfway through at 00:34 onwards.
https://twitter.com/FineGael/status/1415694724103606276?s=19
He told the Dáil that of the 200 people who went through intensive care in the last two months, one was fully vaccinated. 199 were not.
Don’t think you’re an expert…. listen to them instead.
0 deaths
@Niall Holmes: 10 this week, 7 last week they are confirmed by the ECDP. The numbers drop rapidly when the vaccine kicks in as happened here.
Operator! Give me the number for 911!
All of a sudden its young people go out and enjoy yourselves enough of this nonsense
Number is high but hospital cases not too bad so far, it’s really a suck it and see situation as to how it pans out, hopefully remains in control, it’s important to keep positive but not covid positive :-)
Interesting how they have stopped reporting deaths. Now all they have is cases to keep restrictions. A deliberate change of the narrative to keep control
How does one over ride the load of ball ox ” maybe perceived as pox ic “b coz some lefty in the journal deems it to be. They don’t like a difference of opinion to heir who lo han its a pity about them .
@John Scott1281: ……What???
@John Scott1281: Sorry, could you repeat that, you’re breaking up.
@Kiern Mcx: I reckon the sun’s in his eyes while he’s trying to text. Maybe he doesn’t believe in sunglasses?
Still rising which is a worry even if we all knew it would happen.
Hopefully the government remember Christmas and what happened then.
The unvaccinated are the ones at risk now.
Hold off a little bit longer with the indoor stuff, 105minutes in a bar before you have to levave.
I will wait until I can go and come as I please. Not worth the hassle really.
We have done well all things considered, the hack did not help.
it could be worse, we could be like the UK, brought the Delta variant into Europe and he wants to open up, with the scientific community across the world saying its crazy.
Only a boris could be so reckless for a cheap pop.52,000 plus new cases yesterday and the minister of health with two jabs got infected and has to lock himself up until it goes.
@Gary Kearney: 2 jabs and positive through lateral flow test and now PCR. It is now cases that are a concern. Deaths, ICU capacity and hospitalisations are the only things that should concern us. If this variant is so deadly, how come there is no reporting of deaths associated with it? Also, like Sweden before, why is every expert so desperate for England to fail when they drop restrictions on Monday?
Ouchie mamma!
73% have of over 16 years old have one dose and I’m 36 and can’t get mine but signed up in 5 pharmacy’s?
@Karl Lee: Yeah I didn’t really get that bit, and the sign up for the 18 to 24 year olds portal starts Monday.. think it’s either misleading or poorly communicated
@Karl Lee: Thats probably why people flooded the pharmacys. Booking multiple spots and then only using one leaving them with spare vaccines and an empty chair.
@Karl Lee: contact your family Doctor, my son did and next week he’s been vaccinated, just turned 30. Girlfriend same, family Dr and she’s vaccinated this week. Worth trying!
As a comparison, what qere the hospital and ICU numbers like for similar case numbers as we entered the 3rd wave? No point looking at them as we came back down as there is a lag between cases and hospitalisation, so a more accurate comparison is from when we were approaching 3rd wave
@D. Memery:
29/12/20
Circa 1,500 cases
411 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 34 are in ICU.
@D. Memery: Varadkar remarked that Scotland’s recent wave is comparable. They were hit first by the D variant, and it peaked at 5,000 cases. Numbers are slowly going down there now. Hopefully ours will follow a similar trend.
new Dungeons and Dragons book came out!!!
Hundreds in town tonight. Huge crowds down on Capel street. Cases will be through the roof next week.
Young people are so last year anyway sure just put them in an attic Ted! 22 In ICU out of a population of what 6mill?? Really Ted this is a mess.
ITS OVER !
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In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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