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A number of reporters/political correspondents were refused access to a briefing held by Min Stephen Donnelly today on logistics around the vaccine roll-out. 1/4 Media were selected in advance &
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Thread contd: Gap was 4,000 yesterday. Now it's much bigger again.The system wasn't designed to handle the influx of testing, Prof Nolan said he's accounted for it in models.This means
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[Thread] Everything we need to know to halt spread of #Covid19 is hiding in plain sight at this NPHET briefing ‘7 things we ~could learn~ if we looked harder’ 1/https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0114/1189824-5-things/
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Europe’s Deadly Second Wave: Norway, Ireland and Finland have done best of all.Credit where it’s due.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/04/world/europe/europe-covid-deaths.html “Europeans wanted it all,” said. Prof. Devi Sr
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A few evening questions for @CMOIreland @CcoHse @HSELive @GrahamNeary @MihaiVioreanu @DrJohnCurran @RiochtConor2 @higginsdavidw @Care2much18 1/ I think many here on twitter have posted really useful information and are data driven.
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The nightmare of Covid won’t end until we stop mass testing. If somebody feels unwell a diagnostic test is the sensible tool. Continued mass testing healthy people to get positive
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Let's talk about statistics.Something struck me from @FergalBowers (excellent) coverage of today's covid numbers in Ireland: the breakdown is super weird. 190 cases, of which 75 are close contacts of
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There’s a lot of views here and other places that there’s a government communications problem with Covid. It’s not just a communications problem: more importanly I think it’s a management
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The retospectoscope and hindsight in COVID cases @DonnellyStephen @HSELive @merrionstreet @SusanMitchell_ 1/ I am disappointed that so many here are now giving out about the government decision to ease restrictions
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A thread on Leo being a populist. Many centrists criticise the left of being populist when demanding action on housing and health inequality. Leo has used populism to attract right-wing
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[Thread] Will #Level5 work? Contacts between people are not all high-risk, & research says that most people with #COVID19 only transmit to 1 other person or fewer.. ‘It’s often not
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Latest restrictions - some thoughtsWe have been well led through this crisis. We dodged a bullet in April/May/June - we didn't have army trucks transporting coffins (Italy), ICUs in tents
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When you look around Europe, the picture is totally desperate. Hospitals and ICU's are in turmoil, positivity and case rates are through the roof and essentially this is disastrous.A fair
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Interesting line here from a quote by a Taoiseach spokesperson in this CNN report on Ireland's third wave:"the incidence of infection was 'relatively low' in hospitality, retail and construction settings".Not
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NPHET's Medicines and Medical Devices Criticality Assessment Group have just published agendas/minutes (March to May)https://twitter.com/IrelandTicker/status/1278365379442679808 this NPHET committee is important as it has responsibility
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This COVID-19 surge is a good reflection on human behaviour at Christmas time. It transmitted freely among a matrix of communities, which it had not done since the start of
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