Schools and nightclubs not driving latest Covid surge, when cases with plateau, and “public confusion” over antigen tests.
Image: Leah Farrell Image: Leah Farrell PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS today reported 3,174 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland, with 460 people in hospital with Covid-19, 86 of which are in ICUs.
So if we turned off everybody’s vaccine protection now, within a generation time, which is 4-5 days, you’d see somewhere north of 10,000 cases a day. If nothing else changed and everybody is freely mixing in society, 3-4 days later, there is no reason to believe you wouldn’t see four times that again. “So they are unimaginable numbers, in a way.
“And that’s a key difference in terms of the potential use of them in previous situations before nightclubs were open and people were saying, ‘if we could use antigen tests, we could we could open a nightclub that wouldn’t otherwise be safe to open’.”“I’d like to take the chance to talk to the children,” Dr Cormican said at today’s NPHET briefing. “The numbers we’re looking at now, it is not your fault. It’s not because you’re going to school.
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The resultant impact of that is an increase in age specific incidence right across the entire population, with the exception of the possible protection through boosters of those over 75. “This isn’t about one age group or one particular behaviour,” Holohan said. We don’t know when cases will fall “It’s very hard to estimate how many people out there have become infected that we don’t know about because there were asymptomatic undetected infections, and if you change those assumptions, you get a very different profile over the coming months.
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