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Elaine Doyle
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If true, this is a real blow.This vaccine has already been rolled out across the UK, including across Northern Ireland.Do we have a breakdown as to how many in the
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.@rtenews: get your house in order. You have no business platforming a right-wing conspiracy theorist during an inauguration. This is not 'balance', and if you can't see why, you have
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So what happened?In a word: Christmas.In more words: we left lockdown at the beginning of December. The Irish government opened shops - but also opened pubs, restaurants and cafés in
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It's hard to overstate how bad the situation is in Ireland right now.We had 6,110 new covid cases confirmed today, in a population of 4.9m people.If we scale that up
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We have had 5,573 positive swabs in the last 24 hours.Allowing that Quality Assurance will eventually discard about 5-10% as duplicates or otherwise invalid, that's about 5,000 new cases of
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Everyone knows that the case numbers in Ireland aren't real, right? Or rather, that they're wildly undercounted?That we've hit a ceiling of 1700 cases per day *because that's the max
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A while ago, my friend's kid started throwing a birthday party every day.It was a pretty stylish affair. She'd grab all her teddies and line them up one by one.
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Alright. A quick round-up of useful threads on the Pfizer vaccine results and what they could mean.First port of call: @statnews which - as usual - has probably the best
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Very handy series of graphs tweeted tonight by @President_MU; come closer to the granularity I was looking for (cheers @hispanita!).Look at the 'Cases by Outbreak Type' graph especially. How on
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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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I don't understand the British media. I really, really don't.Basic things: Ireland and the UK started this pandemic with roughly the same number of ICU beds (6.5 per 100,000 for
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