Member of the Defence Forces or HSE at a coronavirus test centre set up on the LÉ Samuel Beckett, at Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, last month
This morning.
RTÉ is reporting that a nursing home resident who was tested for Covid-19 nine days ago died last night.
The resident’s test results had not come through by the time of their death.
RTÉ is also reporting a nursing home resident is very ill in hospital and still waiting for their Covid-19 test result, after a swab being taken eight days ago.
Fergal Bowers has tweeted:
Their doctor said that as a test result had not yet come through – positive or negative – the patient will now have to be treated as a positive case by the funeral home, with strict precautions as set out in recent guidelines.
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 1, 2020
In a second case, also in a nursing home, the swab was taken on 24 March. The patient was later transferred to a Dublin hospital and is now very ill. The results of that swab also remain unavailable.
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 1, 2020
Looks like a National Ambulance Service uniform to me.
test, test, test said harris! over-promise and under deliver says reality
From 24th March.
Director at the National Virus Reference Centre, Dr Cillian de Gascun, said that by next week, they could analyse 3,000 tests per day.
He added: “Hopefully over the next few weeks we can round these figures up.
“We are working on samples that were taken on Sunday.
“There was a 10-12 hour turn around time last week – this has jumped to 26 hours.”
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Far from ideal. I would think that due to the extremely rapid upscaling of testing that some tests had slipped through the cracks. Hopefully those cracks have been filled in…
they should have increased the benchmark of 1 symptom for a test to two sooner, keep the hypochondriacs and attention seekers away
Too busy processing tests for RTE “stars” to deal with the plebs.
Ah. That explains why no one went down to the shops for more test reagent.
9 days myself and herself have been waiting. Cannot work barely left the house. I’m being driven demented
Do you have symptoms Joe?
No. Have been absolutely fine
Are these poor unfortunates part of the coronavirus death toll or are they hidden under the historical death toll to be uncovered at great expense by a future inquiry?
The other side of that coin is that everyone who tests positive for COVID 19 is registered as death by- when there may underlying issues which were the actual cause.