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HSE CHIEF PAUL Reid has said more younger people are being referred to hospital with Covid-19.
Speaking to RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland, Reid said the concern is not just about hospitalisations, but also long Covid for younger people.
“We are seeing transmission levels at a high level for the younger population. That being said, what we do know is Covid, over the past 16 months, causes the most harm to the older population,” Reid said.
The Department of Health yesterday reported a further 994 cases of Covid-19 and reported that 80 people with the illness were in hospital yesterday, including 22 in ICU.
“Talking to some of our lead consultants across the country, increasingly they are seeing more younger people, GPs are referring more younger people to hospital,” the HSE chief said.
“We have many incidents where people may not have been hospitalised, but long Covid can significantly impact younger people as well,” Reid said.
“So, it’s too early to determine a trend of those 80 or so patients [in hospital], but we are seeing trends of younger people, certainly more cases and some referrals to hospitals,” he said.
HSE Chief Executive @paulreiddublin says that hospitals are seeing more younger people being admitted and that the "concern is not just about hospitalisations, the concern, particularly for younger people, is long Covid" pic.twitter.com/Q7yICxAWVA
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) July 16, 2021
Reid added that 87% of new Covid-19 cases over the last two weeks are with people under the age of 45. Back in January, he said, 40% of cases were with people over the age of 45.
He said “the reality of it is we now have a new vulnerable”.
“Now the exposure we have is people who haven’t been vaccinated, so that’s the new vulnerable we are dealing with,” Reid said.
“And the concern is two-fold. Number one, as you are not vaccinated, you are at a high level of risk,” he said.
“Number two, what we want to protect against is the high level of spread and transmission in the community, that then puts at risk even those who are vaccinated,” he said.
The online booking system for Covid-19 vaccines has today opened for the 25-29 age cohort.
Those registering through the portal will receive a Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine.
People aged 18-34 are also currently able to register with a pharmacy to receive the one-dose Janssen vaccine, subject to supply.
The HSE is also planning to roll out an opt-in system to allow those aged 18-34 to register on its vaccine portal to receive an AstraZeneca or Janssen vaccine in a vaccination centre.
They should be hung drawn and quartered for making me use that pesky messenger app!
Did you read the terms for having that messenger app.
Aw, you ok hun?
@Alan, after checking out your link I feel great having always declined facebook’s incessant offer of the messenger app. That is some scary schizz. I certainly would have blindly accepted the terms and conditions
Thx for posting that
How is it even legal what they are
Doing..deleted.
The way I see it, if people want me they can text me or call and I can pick up my Facebook message on the laptop
If you read t+c’s of the journal the app can view and delete contents on your sd card. Why?
Thanks for that link Alan, have just deleted it from my phone!
After looking at Alans’s link I thought what a load of old nonsense.
The author is clearly pretty clueless about app permissions on android.
Why don’t you check the permissions of any other messaging app you have on android, they all have pretty much the same.
This is just the standard android permissions written to be as scary as possible.
Check out google hangouts now standard on android, not only does it have all these permissions but it can access your location at any time and read and edit your calendar at any time Gasp!
Just more ant-facebook ain’t I cool hipster nonsense.
If you are worried about Facebook and your privacy
Do not be on Facebook
sticking your ass in the air
like you just don’t care
You fine sir,deserve a medal
Like
Facebook is worth about $200 billion all thanks to the data you give them. they profit from data on users.
Are people “liking” this as a joke?
watch “terms and conditions apply” on Netflix. It will open your eyes.
seen it, recommend everyone sees it, though it confirmed what i’ve always known. planned obsolescence docu is another interesting one.
In those T&Cs posted by the Huffington post, what is meant by a malicious app may do this without your permission? Is it talking about the messenger app or what?
No it’s not talking about the facebook app.
They are standard permissions that any app can ask for.
If you install some dodgy app from somewhere and it asks for those permissions it can do dodgy things and record audio and video all the time.
The facebook app asks to record audio and take pictures so it can support its voice message and picture and video sending abilities.
Also, android users check this out….. Open google (assuming your signed in) click account > account history > places you’ve been.
You can select each date and it will show you exactly where you were etc. Why….? well each time you enable location for maps apps etc…. in the settings menu > Location > On… you will see the message below flash up. Agree or disagree….. always disagree.
Location Consent !
Allow googles location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running.
these people are delusional if they think they’re gonna get any $ of that sociopath Zuckerberg
You’d think Facebook would have registered fbclaim.com along with 20,000 intelligible variations for just such an occasion.
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