Coronavirus - Remain Calm. Do Not Panic

pre Madonna wrote: Baldrick wrote: Drumcondra 69er wrote: Drumcondra 69er wrote: Baldrick wrote: Currently 18,000 tested and 277 have ended up in hospital. Which is 1.5% of those tested or 20% of those that get the virus which is 1329.  7.7% of those tested have been diagnosed with the virus. Is that accurate though? Genuine question. Not certain but from what I can make out the 18k tests includes those where results haven't been given yet. Does anyone know the amount of tests that have had results issued? That will give an accurate percentage of infection.  Can anyone answer this? Would be very interested in knowing how many tests have gone through to results being issued.  They didnt answer that question but they actually said the numbers of positive tests was 6% just now on sean o rourke.  Why are they testing one man so often?

Yeah I was saying yesterday it’s looking like London is becoming a hotspot for the virus.

tetsujin1979 wrote: Haven't read the entire thread, so I don't know if these two wikipedia pages have been posted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland Worth noting that, on the timeline graph, it took Italy 21 days to reach 20 cases and in the next 16 days it grew to 5,883 cases It took Ireland nine days to reach 21 cases, and in the next 16 days it's grown to 1,329 cases We're way, way behind their curve there's a wiki entry for the pandemic nearly every country, just Italy has been mentioned a lot

reddladd wrote: tetsujin1979 wrote: Haven't read the entire thread, so I don't know if these two wikipedia pages have been posted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland Worth noting that, on the timeline graph, it took Italy 21 days to reach 20 cases and in the next 16 days it grew to 5,883 cases It took Ireland nine days to reach 21 cases, and in the next 16 days it's grown to 1,329 cases We're way, way behind their curve there's a wiki entry for the pandemic nearly every country, just Italy has been mentioned a lot What was the starting point? Infected person 1? Is it 21 days after the first infection to get to 20 infections

Edited by tetsujin1979 - 25 Mar 2020 at 7:22pm

A week or ten days ago we were predicted to be at 3304 cases in Ireland 

Roberto Baggio wrote: A week or ten days ago we were predicted to be at 3304 cases in Ireland  Ahead of the curve

we’ve being staying below 20% daily increases which id good. The metric of reduced number of contacts per case is also good. Fear is the test backlog and resetting of criteria for testing may mean we've a lot of untested +ves in the backlog that may become more sick than those tested +ve to date.

MayoMark wrote: Lots to be encouraged about. The age profile of positive cases is quite young. We have a long way to go but so far have to be happy with the numbers. Was it expected to be 15k by April 1st?

Edited by 9fingers - 25 Mar 2020 at 8:29pm

GB 1HughJarse wrote: Web summit lad Paddy Cosgrave wants HSE CEO Paul Reid and CMO Tony Holohan to resign NOW because of PPE shortage. He comes across as a prick, but is he right?

and replaced by .... ?

Edited by Dalymount79 - 25 Mar 2020 at 8:35pm

GB 1HughJarse wrote: Web summit lad Paddy Cosgrave wants HSE CEO Paul Reid and CMO Tony Holohan to resign NOW because of PPE shortage. He comes across as a prick, but is he right?