Tag: pandemic
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Further clarification re NPHET restrictions
So there has been some confusion on the applications of these. Ronan Glynn gave a video outline of some of the rationale. Minister Donnelly, a less succesful one. There’s a new, excellent video just released which provides clarity on the recent restrictions. Worth viewing!
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NPHET propose to ban kids birthday parties….
So, with the worrying surge in cases NPHET, they to whom the government have ceded decision making, have decided that kids parties are the problem. Yep. Holymudderagod…. The surge in cases is down to direct provision center/poor paid workers in gross overcrowding and THIS is their latest hamfisted cackhanded (can you be both? I guess)…
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“this cannot go on”
so says the acting CMO, he and a lot of other online commentators post the 200 case spike reported Saturday. But , what can’t go on?
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Academics (covid) waving at the media…
The WHO give an average time for symptoms of COVID to show as being 5-6 days. The 14 day issue comes from a proper abundance of caution. So, given that we are now nearly a month into a gradual reopening of the country, we should be seeing a second wave? We have been told by…
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I’m sorry, what?
Today there were six cases. Six. At the height of this we were having closer to 600. So I’m not quite sure what biomedical statistics equate 6 with an increase
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Living in a gelotopoicracy
The absolute rolling clown show that is the travel “green list” shows very clearly that when it comes to how to navigate Ireland out of the pandemic induced mess, there is no plan. There is no plan for a plan. We live in a gelotopoicracy. Actually that is unfair, as when the clowns come out…
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Does my curve look flat in this?
Does it? Was the point not to do this? Of course the pandemic is not over but this suggests that so far the opening up of the country on 29/June has not resulted in a second wave. So far. Datasource : https://data.gov.ie/dataset?q=covid&sort=score+desc%2C+metadata_created+desc
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Are we on the cusp of the second wave of COVID?
Pictures above are of daily deaths, 7 and 14 day moving averages of same. As numbers get smaller things like R0, shortterm moving averages and so on become noisier. The law of small numbers as it were.