Paul Reid, CEO, HSE, at Dr Steevens’ Hospital this afternoon
HSE CEO @paulreiddublin says the manual counted number of staff out with Covid-19 is 8,500. But adds, that number could be even double. | More: https://t.co/kLrhY9reqK pic.twitter.com/Zz5GL9kAqN
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) January 6, 2022
Yikes.
This afternoon.
HSE weekly covid briefing at Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.
Mr Reid said there are now at least 8,500 staff out of work due to Covid.
Some healthcare settings have gone from 60 people out to over 300 people out over the course of this week.
He said that there could be at least 12.5% impact on staffing levels.
He said that this figure includes over 3,000 nurses and midwives, over 1,500 staff involved in patient and client care and almost 1,500 health and social care professionals.
“This is a real frontline impact on us overall,” he added.
He said that “we still haven’t seen the tap turned off in terms of staff being impacted”.
‘Persistent stress’ across the health system – Reid (RTE)
Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Meanwhile…
How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/cpvZSA1cMo
— Ciara 🇮🇪 ✝️ (@Ciaradotie) January 6, 2022
Ah now.
And that absolute gangster can’t even blame it on the unvaccinated as the healthcare personnel are a highly vaccinated population. Clearly the vaccines are totally ineffective at preventing transmission.
As I said yesterday, it might be worth paying attention to the impact Omicron close contact quarantining is having on various businesses and organisations across Irish society and around the world. The risk of supply chain interruptions has risen dramatically as a result. Stock up on core basic supplies. View it as health insurance. People fork out thousands for their families each year for health insurance so what’s a few hundred euros spent on large bags of rice, tinned foodstuffs, gas, etc? It could prove to be the best investment you ever made. Hopefully it’ll never be needed but if it is, failure to prepare could prove catastrophic for you and your loved ones.
Nah
I have elderly neighbours
I could murder and eat a few of them.
Problem solved…
Ha, very good Micko. You’re going straight to the cannibalism proper Armageddon style. Some of the oldies don’t have a pick on them though so it could slim eating, in more than one way. I’ll stick with rice, tinned fruit, veg and fish (until they too run out)
The lady living beside me is bleeding massive. And slow…
Nom
Nigel will be along shortly to tell you the vaccine does not PREVENT transmission, it REDUCES transmission and that it’s not so much about the spread of the virus but rather the severity of the spread.
What can be said with certainty is that the virus is the greatest excuse for almost everything and anything that anyone has ever dreamt of.
Also in breaking news: TESCO Ringsend is out of Fish Fingers. More news to follow. Do not adjust your set
Fish Fingers!! Christ, it’s begun….
Fish Fingers? I blame Bodger!
I’m glad you’ve internalised that message.
Incorrect Nigel. I’ve shared that message
Well done, either way.
Thanks.
So why vaccinate children when there is a risk to them and no benefit as they will continue to transmit the virus albeit in (a % unknown) reduced viral load?
To reduce the chances of them catching ot and spreading it.
Everyone is out sick. But how sick is everyone?
My guess, not really to not at all.
And yet, Mr. Reid never seems to be one of them. alas.
Jeez man. That’s coz he always wears his mask.
Except when hanging out with Johnny Giles
I’d say it goes over his head
Eamon Ryan got his share.
Well it it’s a guess, it must be right.
Do you hope my guess is wrong Nigel? and everyone that is out on the sick is really ‘sick sick’
I know enough people who’ve been laid low with it not to to get my hopes up or trust your guess.
Well if you ‘know people’ then you must be right
It’s going on more than your guess.
these people you know that were ‘laid low’. Did they survive?
Thankfully, yes. Do you think anything short of ‘not surviving’ doesn’t count as ‘sick sick’ or even ‘sick’
The biggest threat to the functioning of our health services now isn’t ICUs being overwhelmed (they’ve been steady for months now), its medical staff being forced to isolate at home.
The government is struck between a rock and a hard place on this though. Society is breaking down from absent employees. But they can’t get rid of the mandatory isolation periods without admitting covid is no longer dangerous.
Great point.
They will reduce the isolation period though through various excuses without explicitly saying the truth.
Spot on Bob. They can just quote any random doctor/scientists from around the globe that states that Omicron doesn’t require a full two weeks isolation.
They’ve been cherry picking their facts from the start, no point in stopping now.
Reducing quarantine time to get HSE staff back to work early will be an act of desperation. You can pretend its some sort of doublt standard at work, but it’ll basically be corner cutting to keep hospitals open.
it will be reducing quarantine time to keep EVERYTHING open not just hospitals. Did you see my post re: Fish Finger status???
How the hell should I know?
they experienced this in the UK months ago with ‘Pingmageddon’ or whatever they called it when everyone went on the sick – https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/15/pinging-hell-nhs-covid-app-causing-widespread-staff-shortages
It’s already happened Bob. The isolation period in the US is down to 5 days. I would expect us to follow shortly.
Antigen tests are now accepted by employers here in lieu of a PCR test. Amazing as only a couple of months ago antigen tests were called ‘snake oil’ by (Nphet) official Prof Philip Nolan.
and I have no doubt in the coming days the teachers unions will close the schools because they want to watch all the stuff they recorded over the Christmas and of course avoid the DEADLY OMICRONS (aka: a cold)
‘aka: a cold’
Someone hasn’t been checking the hospitalisation figures lately.
Discharges too
125 in the last 24hrs alone.
Panic merchants a lot of em. A wee bit of oxygen and being told you’re not gonna die by a doctor sorts em right out.
so the vaccines are not working Nigel and hospitalisation with serious infection is going through the roof?? is that what you are saying?
‘Panic merchants a lot of em.’
Seereusz medicul pinionz.
‘is that what you are saying?’
Reread the message you shared again, goldfish brain.
Goon man Nigel. https://www.broadsheet.ie/2022/01/04/young-portal/#comment-2383480
Goldfish? Well I never. :-o
And here’s me thinking that you’d be happy that almost 15% of Covid hospitalisations were discharged safely to their homes in a single 24hr period. .
No pleasin some folks eh…. they just love an aul panic
‘And here’s me thinking that you’d be happy that almost 15% of Covid hospitalisations were discharged safely to their homes in a single 24hr period’
I’m sorry. Goldfish are actually smarter.
Jesus. You’re full of the fun tonight eh? I can’t help it if you don’t like the facts. 125 people discharged out of 928 is 13.5%
So, since you didn’t get back to me yesterday, I’d say that a no on the pints then?
Hmmm… creamy legal freedom pints.
Nom a nom nom.
Oh are you not having fun? Or do you think I’m being harsh? Maybe you’ll find the answer at the bottom of the next pint.
‘without admitting covid is no longer dangerous.’
You know it doesn’t HAVE to be dangerous (though it is to a significant number of people) it just has to be highly infectious.
Restricting employees from working in the HSE which in turn puts the public in danger due to the staff shortages for something that’s not dangerous sounds pretty dumb
You want to force sick HSE staff to come to work? Or condemn them for getting sick?
Nigel who is the cohort of “significant number of people” that Covid is “dangerous” to? Exactly who? What is wrong with them that the Covid virus hospitalised or killed them????
The imunocompromised, the elderly, people with underlying conditions, and the percentage of younger healthy people who get it bad, the unvaccinated. Have you been asleep the whole pandemic? Lucky you.
That is not very specific Nigel.
Let me be specific:
What about people with allergic reactions and their reaction to the vaccine?
Allergic reactions to the PEG component of the MRNA vaccines.
‘That is not very specific Nigel.’
What, you want their names?
‘What about people with allergic reactions and their reaction to the vaccine?’
People with allergic reactions to the vaccine may or may not also be vulnerable to the virus, it depends on their medical history.