This afternoon.
Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 2.
HSE CEO Paul Reid at the HSE’s weekly Covid update.
Where’s your upgraded mask?
Meanwhile…
Mr Reid has said that there is a much lower level of hospitalisations in proportion to the daily case numbers as was seen in previous waves and variants.
He said that there is plenty of evidence that Omicron “isn’t as impactful or severe at an individual level as previous variants have been“.
However…
Paul Reid has said that it is “really like tackling this wave with one hand tied behind our back” because up to 15,000 of the workforce are out due to Covid.
But he added that the volume of the cases and pace of the rise in cases “continues to put a constraint on our healthcare services“.
Um.
Anyone?
Rise in hospital cases of people with Covid-19 ‘seems to have slowed’ (RTE)