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28 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Feared surge of #Covid19Ireland positive swabs from Mondays higher GP referrals hasn't materialised today, instead that 439 swabs are only 81% of last Weds. TBH I'm nervous a lab reported late but positivity of 2.1% on 20.5k tests suggests not /1 Image
3 day average of positive swabs at 405 is lowest in a week and 93% of same days last week which takes us back to slowly reducing pos swabs
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24 days into the 42 of the 'vulnerable period ahead' this low for a Wednesday number of swabs and the news of Pfizer delivering 191k vaccines provides hope - plot from last night, I'd expect to add about a 400 case dot tonight and not 600 I feared from Mondays GP data /3 Image
The calculations in this thread remain relevant however if cases are maintained at or below the current level over the next 3 weeks they will be a lot less so as everyone over 60 & high risk groups will have been vaccinated /4
Nervously double checking that there hasn't been a testing fall off I see that the 20,498 tests processed is in fact the highest since March 31st & there were 712 positive swabs reported that day on only 650 more tests. /5
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Bad news on #Covid19Ireland swabs with a large jump to 658 today, 120% last Friday, close to 3% positivity on 22k tests which gets us back to rising cases but is also highest figure in a month /1 Image
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This mornings NISRA weekly deaths bulletin for northern Ireland brings the likely total dying with Covid19 during the pandemic to 2957 or 1569 deaths per million. The equivalent for the south is currently 64% of that at 999 deaths per million /1 Image
The NISRA weekly update appears Fridays dated to previous Friday & captures about 28% more deaths than the Department of Health does. It counts death certs where Covid19 is mentioned as a factor, in last quarterly update it found 88.7% also had Covid19 as underlying cause /2 Image
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29 Apr
Small same day last week increase in #Covid19Ireland positive swabs to 485, that's 106% last Thursday. Quite a large test quantity with low 2.4% positivity & 3 day average in comparison with last week still going down /1 Image
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GP referrals for Monday & Tuesday were up a lot more than the positive swabs coming through yesterday & today from those referrals. Hayfever being one possibility alongside alertness around school outbreaks /3 Image
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29 Apr
The Irish Times has a lot to answer for over that misleading headline - it’s made it a global source of misinformation rather than just a local one. Actual risk ratio is 1 in 19 - there was no need for the wishful thinking exaggeration based on poor understanding
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Listening to the vaccine misinformation put out unchallenged by IBEC on RTE this morning . While suggesting forcing people back into offices early would be good for their mental health was jaw dropping you do not get 80% of benefit from vaccination with 20% 1st dose /1
Majority of hospitalisations have been under 65s. as are 60% of ICD admissions. Perhaps IBEC only count deaths but a pandemic that only infects those under 65 could still kill a couple of 1000 directly & deny other healthcare to many /2
The reopening has to be cautious and in pace with vaccination until we are heading for 90% fully vaccinated. The north has nearly 50% dose 1, most measures still in place but still only has a slow decline in new cases - we can learn through observing them /3
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