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The Daily PollTHE NOMINATIONS FOR the International Dublin Literary Award were announced this morning, with nominees from Canada, France, India, Iran, Ireland, Poland, the UK and the USA.
On the day her fifth novel is published, author Louise O’Neill also speaks this morning about returning to her native Clonakility during lockdown.
The period has been cited as a good opportunity for people to indulge in more reading, while other research has pointed to stress making it more difficult for people to concentrate.
Today’s poll: Have you been reading more books over the past six months?
I heard from a reliable source that Admin staff in a Kildare hospital getting vaccinated before Nurses. And family members included.
It’s who you know in Ireland…same old story.
I’m a Nurse. Waiting for my vaccine.
@Mary O’leary:
My daughter is a 4th year student nurse, doing her internship at the moment. She got Covid herself back in October and recovered well TG.
She was never really sick with it, just lost her taste and smell. A couple of her fellow students also got it and they isolated together in the one house.
Last Fri my son tested positive and is currently self isolating in his bedroom at home. My daughter is not allowed back to the hospital for two weeks because she’s a close contact but was this morning asked to defer her vaccination for 6 months because she’s immune apparently!
And the hospitals are crying out for nurses!
@Mary O’leary: I know two ICU nurses who got theirs last week.
@Mary O’leary: Are you aware that some clerical staff are based on wards.. including covid wards?
Every time I see the numbers in the evening, I think about how differenty the frontline medical staff will remember covid to the rest of us.
Give them what they ask for ffs.
Seemingly
Managers in HR / Accountants and admin in hospitals and
Staff family members in nursing homes are getting vaccination -
Go on ye good thing – Ireland “wink wink”
@Pete Lee: agree it happened today in a Kildate hospital. Administration staff and their families vaccinated. I’m a Nurse, underlying health issues. Still no vaccine. Disgraceful.
@Mary O’leary: If that is true, its criminal. TBH I really can’t see Nurses and other frontline health care staff letting that happen or the people vaccinating going along with that….
@Paula Lillis: from IRISH TIMES…
Covid-19: Hospital defends vaccination of staff not working on frontline
Article by Paul Cullen
@Pete Lee: the family members part in nursing homes was on news 5#30 this evening… Virgin news I think
@Mary O’leary: Front line staff in hospitals got priority & rightly so. But it is completely ingenuous to say other hospital staff are not important too – they are!
Who makes sure nurses get paid, or brings in equipment, pays the bills, fixes machines, the list goes on!
Too many simpletons on here spouting uninformed rubbish.
@Hotirish: if they are on the hospitals, fine. If not – back of the queue.
I have great respect for nurses and all of the front line workers, but surely the INMO General Secretary Phil ni Sheaghda could have shown better example by keeping her own face mask up to cover her nose while being interviewed for VMTV news today.
Administration staff in Connolly Hospital who haven’t been in a room with patients for years getting Vaccinated before frontline staff.Cronyism and it’s finest
Criminal. Those other than nurses should be the last to get it.
@Daithi: doctors??
seemingly you need to preface any comment about health care with the usual ‘i think they are doing a great job under difficult circumstances etc etc……so now that’s clear can the ‘authorities’ or INMO or anyone help me understand why Ireland has so many health care workers getting infected since this all began , we are reportedly the worst in the world with the % of cases that are healthcare workers – we had a very high profile few weeks at the outset about the huge efforts and millions spent securing PPE , we hear about out much improved testing and the fact we use the gold standard of tests and yet we seemingly cannot explain why all the precautions and PPE usage and testing has resulted in us with the highest % of cases being healthcare …….there is something very obviously wrong with the operating procedures ……anyone got any intelligent insights they can share rather than slinging some mud accusing me of being disrespectful to healthcare workers ( which I AM NOT )
@Dave Hammond: best insight is the HSPC reports although not updated.
https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/covid-19casesinhealthcareworkers/
I’ve been waiting for it to be updated for weeks though.
It’s kind of to be expected to be spread in healthcare as 15 minutes of close contact is assumed to be enough but this can also be a series of close contacts adding up to 15 minutes.
Masks can only do so much in general healthcare.
The numbers includes every type of worker in Healthcare cleaners etc also .
The only good outcome is immunity from infection is showing to be more Protective than the vaccine so far.
More data always needed and time.
BAN SURGICAL MASKS. Not appropriate to protect from virus.
N95 or FFP2 (94%) or FFP3(99%) masks should be used.
Comparison study of surgical masks v N95 respirators… see conclusion. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868605/
Health & Safety
Health: Ask a medic if you get the virus.
Safety: Ask and Engineer to avoid it!
.. quite astounding that HSE did not get engineering advice on masks until NOW!
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