@Sean: does it actually really matter????

@Sean: underlying condition can be hypertension , better check your blood pressure.

@Robert Clifford: It’s all available here:

https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/vaccinationstatusreports/Vaccination%20status%20of%20confirmed%20COVID-19%20cases%20in%20Ireland%20Week%2048.pdf

@Sean: seen a meme on Twitter earlier. Consisted of a Knight’s armour with a cannonball lodged in it with the text…. ‘did he die ‘of’ a cannonball or ‘with’ a cannonball”……. Aren’t you very clever.

@In the paper: yes it does, if 80% of people who died are under eg 60 yrs old,have no underlying illness rathar than been over the average death age in Ireland of around 82 yrs, then big difference. Yes i like to see that information.

@Breda Kelly: as a good runner and semi retired i glad to say BP is fine.

@Robert Clifford: it is available for anyone bothered to look. But what would moaners like yourself have to complain about if you actually told the truth.

@Mary Ryan: it does actually…it really matters if we are to ever to get out of this situation we are in.

@Robert Clifford: Hey Bob, I’d say your man there is a nut job.

@Sean: there you go Seán:

https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/weeklyreportoncovid-19deathsreportedinireland/2022/

@Sean: and it can be found here https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/casesinireland/ but I really could not be bothered looking for someone with such an ageist comment saying that the age of the dying mattered when following published public health guidelines could have saved lives.

@Robert Clifford: ah it’s great to see you two guys getting your bromance back on track. Really sweet. You must have been missing each other.

@Robert Clifford: agree with you there, same sheep on here believing everything been fed to them, says more about them

@Gerry McCaughey: you can’t handle the truth

@Niall Ó Cofaigh: if there was such a person as God, and he has choice one person must die, one aged 90 and one aged 6, i hope he choose to let the 6 yr old have a chance of at least another 70yrs.

@Sean:Go out and get a life while you can ….you could end up as one of the numbers you are looking for………

@Sean: and how many with vaccines ? how many vaccines ? it would be good to understand what these numbers really represent.

@Sean: what has that got to do with anything? Are you trying to suggest that Government policies are keeping 90 year olds alive at the expense of 6 year olds?

@Sean: I know the details around one of these “numbers” – our 46 year old cousin, unfortunately unvaccinated, no underlying conditions, got a lung clot as a complication of severe Covid and passed away on the 30th of December. It only hits home when it hits home!

@Statto Man: very good

@David Jordan: tks, 3.2% of deaths under 60 of which over 95% have underlying illness

@Hear me now: explain

@Sean: so what?

@Sean: you can live a long life with underlying conditions.

@David Jordan: that report only covers to 4th Dec so the information on last week is not included in it.

@Sean: And once again Sean, it does not matter. Still COVID deaths. Your disdain of human life is bewildering.

@Sean: imagine under gdpr that’s not allowed

@In the paper: you gas man

@Kevin Thompson: yes you can, but if you 82 and have heart disease and smoked 60 yrs and are in ICU then catch cv19 and die , did u really die because u caught cv19

@Lesidees: you kill me

@Sean: Still a human life and the fact that you can so casually dismiss someone in their 80′s as disppsable tells us exactly what kind of person you are.

@Sean: Just so you know …there was a fella once who thought just like you. Thought people had a best before date. Came to a sticky end ,really sad business. Went by the name Hitler. When you get to hell, say hi to him for me.

@Mark Day: sorry to hear that,

@Joe_X: wow

@Aurelio Na Fodhla: it’s flu season or really, vitamin D deficiency season..

@Aurelio Na Fodhla: Also the majority in ICU have delta.

@Vonvonic: Omicron became dominant over Delta around Dec 19th, so most of those in ICU likely caught Delta more than 3 weeks ago.

@Michael Holland: yes its vitamin D deficiency…. I cannot understand why governments are not advising all citizens should be taking vitamin D especially the elderly in nursing homes during the winter months should all be prescribed at least 2000iu daily. All newborn babies are getting it until they are 1 now. It’s a barrier to viruses.

@Aurelio Na Fodhla: rising. God love the nursing and medical staff, they must be utterly exhausted

@C_O’S: all Irish citizens have been advised to take vitamin D supplements for years. But if vitamin D was the magic pill you think it is why is covid still an issue in countries where the population don’t have a vitamin D deficiency such as the med countries.

@Rmaybe: yeah, pretty sure I read somewhere the U.S population has one of the highest vit d levels in the world and they haven’t had such a great pandemic

@Rmaybe: The anti vaxers think that the rest of us have never heard of Vitamin D. They think that knowledge of Vitamin D is specialised. It tells me that they never heard of it themselves until the pandemic.

@C_O’S: oh yeah? Tell that to the thousands contracting COVID19 today in Australia where it’s 40 degrees and summer time!
How will you square that circle?
Go back onto Facebook and listen to DJ Spril

@Sean Coady: these were all theories that were explored way back in 2020 like the Bsc vaccine research. Unfortunately people read one article that suits them and refuse to budge on anything else. They seem to think science is finite and not fluid or agile based on current data. Interestingly I read an article yesterday that explains although we think of covid as a respiratory virus like the cold or flu it describes covid to behave more like the HIV virus as it can attack any organ in the body and symptoms of long covid such as loss of smell or taste are actually more to to with the virus attacking part of the brain. I wonder how many people would take it more serious if they considered it affecting your brain.

@Rmaybe: and also don’t understand how scientists may change their view as the data changes. Still clinging on to something a scientist may have said in March 2020 and think it applies now is just ridiculous, that’s not how science works.

@Rmaybe: my gp has been advising our family to take vit d supplements from oct to March since our first child was born and that was 20 years ago. It’s nothing new.

@John brett: yes and the country wide open. We have been hitting daily case loads of 2 to 3 times anything we had this month last year, yet our case hospital numbers and ICU numbers have been 1/3 to a 1/2 last January’s numbers when the country was closed. You keep forgetting that for some reason

@Sean Coady: yup and a huge portion of older people take vit D and have done for years but but but wait it’s old people that were dying now they’re not. Did they all suddenly start taking double doses of vit D RMaybe……..they reduced their contacts, increased hand hygiene and took the vaccine? I’m not sure, what do you think?

@Rmaybe: it’s baffling!

@Martina Masterson: that’s what he said

@Maurice O Neill: Shouldn’t you be getting your confederate flag ready for tomorrow?

@Maurice O Neill: Maurice, you’re only here to comment in your usual, predictable, contrarian way just to rile people up. You were found out ages ago. Maybe give up now, hey?

@Maurice O Neill: there’s no real need for you to be afraid, Maurice – the rest of us have this. Don’t be worrying your little head over it.

@Maurice O Neill: what are you afwaid of pet?

@Francis Mc Carthy: Biden’s communist takeover of ‘Murica don’t you know?

@Maurice O Neill: why are you so scared Maurice?

@Maurice O Neill: if you don’t like scary stories I’m sure there’s a Peppa pig book that will explain in a more appropriate way for you.

@Henri Poincaré: yeah, I don’t think the app is up to date.
It’s 173 admissions today, one of the highest daily admission totals yet.

But they are finding that Omicron causes shorter stays on average, and way less into ICU.

Seems we’ll continue to see hospital numbers rise for a time before hopefully a rapid fall.

@Michael Burke: https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu–testing

@Henri Poincaré: out of ICU but not out of hospital?

@Henri Poincaré: Henri. I gave up believing the figures about 18 months ago.

@Michael Burke: There’s a better article on RTE news website. It gives better breakdowns on all aspects also underlying conditions are hypertension, chronic heart disease and respiratory illness.

@Franny Ando: RTE news : 17,656 new Covid cases, 40 further deaths notified

http://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2022/0105/1269939-coronavirus-hspc-statistics/

@Jacqueline berry: that link doesn’t work.

@Mo: in London at its peak, incidental rates were 50% on admissions. 30% in the rest of UK. Similar to South Africa. No doubt we are heading there, but it will be buried and you wont read a good news story on it.

@Kevin McMahon: how many stroke victims who tested positive whilst they were in hospital had the stroke because they had covid ..

but without doubt, those who are going to hospital ‘because’ of covid are mainly the non vaccinated.

@Kevin McMahon: why does this breakdown matter to you? Is it so you can pretend you don’t need to take any responsibility because catching covid in hospital means it’s not severe and doesn’t matter or count?

You are choosing to ignore that high numbers means high infection rates. High infection rates in hospital means the infection rate is exasperated even more. The severity of the disease is also exasperated given that every patient in hospital is vulnerable somehow. Even if they are recovering from a routine surgery contracting covid could be a death sentence given the potential for clotting post surgery and with covid also having clotting complications. High infection rates in hospital also mean front line staff are more likely to be out sick. Shortages of staff is one of the contributing factors to unnecessary deaths in hospital.
If you had a loved one in hospital and they contracted covid would you have any concern for their recovery or would say it doesn’t matter because they were admitted because of covid?

@Deirdre O’Byrne: You mean the good people who for almost two years refused the use of antigen tests. Those good people!!

@Franny Ando: no I mean the good people who study mask effectiveness.

@Franny Ando: Really Franny? You mean the Antigen tests that are giving so many false negatives that people are away from work unnecessarily, and if yhey can give a false negative they can as easily give a false negative. That along with the fact that some people can’t use them right taking because they are not going deep enough to hit the right spot, makes the most accurate of them inaccurate!

@Joe_X: sorry meant ” false positive”

@Deirdre O’Byrne: If folk wore the correct masks, (N95/FP2), as people are mandated to do in Germany, then they might have made a difference, otherwise they are completely useless.

@Deirdre O’Byrne: the same good people who blindly followed the church guidelines.
Covid is their new religion and nphet is their church!!

@Francis Ryan: It would let us all know how this effects people of certain ages and body types. It can’t be that hard to get all the ages and bmi collected. They reported median age previously which can be misleading. We need true simple information and complete transparency.

@Richard Right: Holy God! We’ve all gone mad. At this stage have you nothing better to be worrying about? We all need a break from this, not extra feckin figures and stats ya lunatic.

@Tim Tom: 0 followers? We have seen these accounts come out and support government all through the pandemic. Take a night off.

@Richard Right: this might have some information as the HSPC are good at publishing stuff https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/casesinireland/

@Richard Right: I have Twitter solely for the purpose of commenting on the Journal so don’t need any followers to justify any credibility pal. My beliefs on this pandemic evolve day to day and are certainty not led by any government loyalty as you are suggesting. People like yourself are just obsessed with figures and facts and the constant search for the next opportunity to be conceited in The Journal comments. Get another hobby or something or get out for a walk.

@Richard Right: plandemic lol

@Richard Right:
Deaths in cases notified between 27th June and 4th December, 2021 (Weeks 26-48)
o 690 deaths due to COVID-19 in laboratory confirmed cases were notified to HPSC
o 63% (n=437) of deaths were in fully vaccinated cases; 84% (n=367) were ≥70 years of age

@Rmaybe: it is when they give a 40 weekly figure against a daily figure of infections,

If it was the other way around u and your pro jabbing friends would be going mad!!

6 deaths today v 140,000 reported infections last week

Especially seen as only a minority of omicron infections are even being tested for anyway as in the vast majority people are asymptomatic an are not getting a pcr test anyway!!

@Philip McLoughlin: that’s all just nonsense I actually can’t even be bothered to explain it to you.

@Deirdre O’Byrne: No but it seems to know what a €9 meal and a time curfew is though.

@Robert Clifford: actually it doesn’t. But it *does* need some form of contact or other in order to spread – contact that legislatures are trying to limit.

@Rmaybe: Tony was telling a downright porkie when he said that like he has been for the last two years when it came to hospital admissions. Anything from 45 to 55 % of admissions of all the other variants were inhouse or incidental transmission so why would a more transmissible weaker variant be any different if not much higher. Holohan the HSE and Donnelly have made an absolute balls of the way they have handled this billions spent on everything from advertisement, media, keeping people at home from work, unnescessary vaccines for young people (coercing them into it by removing their right to have a life) and f all spent on improving our front line hospital services, wouldn’t even pay the poor student nurses. If 600 people can bring the health service to its knees out of a population of more or less 5 million which it has done for over a decade then I know where the problem lies and its not vaccines or boosters its the HSE top brass the govt and our CMO not doing their bloody jobs

@Michael McGrath: health service has plenty of flaws and I agree is a shambles in how it directs funds and resources. However in two years not once have we had people being treated in car parks and tents, not once have we actually reached the capacity in ICU so while all the restrictions may be annoying for you and your life they have obviously gone some way in keeping the health service afloat unlike so many countries with a health service far superior to ours such as Italy Spain and UK. Your solution is to spend everything on more front line staff so they can cope better with the surge of people who carry on as normal with no restrictions, isolation, testing, public health advice , income supports etc etc spend the money on cleaning up the streets rather than the bins and expecting everybody to take a little responsibility.

@Rmaybe: not answering the same question mate