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#COVID19ireland hospitalisation increased by 16% in 24 hours with 92 more than yesterday. 75 were new admissions, highest figure in pandemic, highest in April was 57. 23 discharges suggests 40 hospital detected infections, these would include hospital acquired
There were 643 available beds yesterday suggesting capacity will be exhausted in less than a week. Worth noting that two hospitals already had no available beds and others in areas hard hit have almost none so this has already happened in some hospitals
It's worth zooming in to get an idea of how just quickly the situation is getting worse. 198 in hospital December 16th has more than trebled in just 18 days. If that was to be repeated in the next 18 we'd be at over 2000, far above available capacity https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu--testing
ICU figures now updated showing 10%+ increase from 56 to 62. Again were it not for 3 discharges that would be over 15%. Numbers have doubled in just 5 days. Only 49 available critical care beds yesterday so capacity likely to be exhausted in days
Exhaustion of ICU capacity requires cancellation of routine / elective surgery as ICU beds are needed if something goes wrong and sometimes for recovery. Losing control of Covid means losing routine healthcare https://twitter.com/andrewflood/status/1326929245659144192
