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HSE’s National Lead for testing and tracing, Niamh O’Beirne this afternoon
This afternoon.
Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.
HSE weekly briefing
Niamh O’Beirne [HSE National Lead for testing and tracing] said “we are in surge, exceeding 20,000 tests per day.”
She said the positivity rate over the last week was 5.9% across community test centres. Yesterday it was 7.8%, she added.
Ms O’Beirne said “at some sites it’s as high as 15%”.
She said the number of close contacts is “around four per person”.
She urged people to “take the calls from contact tracers and give all of your contacts”.
“You need to give all of the names so that we can text them regularly and so that they can be referred for testing.”
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Oh my God, 1,560 people a day are testing positive for a virus that gives you a cold.
I have more important figures for Niamh O’Beirne: 2 people that died in the last 14 days tested positive for Covid DNA. That’s 2 out of the approx. 300 people that died.
Just do antigen tests, you can do 1000x more of them than PCRs given the quick turnaround and lack of infrastructure required.
And theyre actually better at identifying infectious people. Who cares if you miss asymptomatic people – statistically theyre the least likely to spread covid.
Exactly, but then they couldnt create their obedient citizen pass society.
With all due respect – I wouldn’t trust the HSE with any personal information, especially other peoples contact information, after the hacking debacle. It’s just another method for scammers to try fool people.
NPHET is basing its predictions since 25th May on ‘provisional’ information that is subject to change. That information if coming from the ‘App’. The app which probably 40% of people who installed it have uninstalled it now.
25th May daily case numbers are based on a data extracted from the Covid Care Tracker. The HSE Covid Care Tracker (CCT) is the IT system that records the data collected at telephone interviews with COVID-19 cases and their close contacts. The number of cases is based on this improved process and relates to cases reported on the CCT over the same period of time. The NPHET was advised that these data should be considered provisional and are subject to change . It was confirmed that as soon as all COVID-19 surveillance systems are restored, COVID-19 cases for this period will be collated and validated on CIDR.
regarding the hack one of my phones received 6x post-HSE scam calls today alone, lol
btw on that score, obviously don’t answer but do check out those incoming numbers, see if you notice anything interesting? yep, they may already know your first 6 digits
their only real endgame here is to work out the last 4 xxxx
if so, “watch yer house” as we used to shout on the pitch
I’m not convinced it is to do with the HSE myself- could be but if that was the case, they wouldn’t need to have the first ones?
first six digits of what?
YOUR phone number Cian
say you’re on 088 123 4567
for many victims now the inbound calls will be coming from 088 123 xxxx
see?
(as you probably know your last 4 is heavily used in all sorts of verification systems)
Something you’ll never hear NPHET say: “yes, we can stop testing now.”
Moar PCR test fees for NVRL. Mooaar!!