Ireland’s figure here is as of Jan 7. Ministers were told last night Ireland has now surpassed 35,000 which is 0.74 per hundred. Healthcare workers were vaccinated across the weekend.
Meanwhile #covid19ireland ICU numbers up to 146 as of this morning, with 21 admissions in the last day, and set to exceed the springtime peak of 155 very soon.
146 is literally half of all of Ireland’s current intensive care capacity.
On vaccines: briefing note for ministers says supply to long-term care facilities “will be increased significantly” this week, with jabs in 180 nursing homes, putting Ireland on target to offer first jab to all 75,000 residents and staff by end of January
(And no, I don’t know why this isn’t officially published)
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One: “I was screaming with the pain, three days screaming with the pain and all you got was, ‘Oh you should have thought about this nine months ago.’ ‘You have got to suffer for your sins and you have got to put up with it.’ And the more you screamed the more she abused you.”
Another: The midwife “wouldn't give any painkilling. She was cutting the girls down below and just would tell them this is your punishment for what you have done and you are never doing this again.”
THREAD: As we know there are now personnel and technological limits as to how many new 'confirmed cases' of Covid-19 will be reported every day - the backlog of cases to be officially announced is 9,000+ and likely to keep growing.
So how will we know how many cases there are?
(there isn't supposed to be an element of suspense here, my browser has crashed while posting the thread)
Great, the browser crashed and took the thread with it. 🙃
☝🏻 Correction: 504 in hospital, of whom 47 are in ICU
Today's figures have a note from Philip Nolan on the gap between swabs and cases:
"Positive tests detected in laboratories require validation (to remove duplicates and other tests that do not create new cases) and transfer to the HPSC database before confirmation and reporting…
NEW: NPHET tells Govt that even if R is reduced to 1.4 from yesterday, case numbers will rise to 2000+ daily by Jan 9, and 3000 daily by Jan 23… by which point the number of cases in hospital would surpass 1000.
For context on that: that's double the 490 cases in hospital this lunchtime, and would amount to occupying almost EVERY spare public hospital bed in Ireland.
Yesterday morning, for example, there were 623 available beds across the public hospital system.