Taoiseach says country must be vigilant but there are “hopeful signs.” He said today’s decision to ease the rules around restrictions for close contacts strikes a balance between public health and staff requirements in health, education and the economy pic.twitter.com/XzpkwECBt1
— Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) January 12, 2022
This morning/afternoon.
Government Buildings, Dublin.
Earlier: And Relax
Oh.
This morning.
The Liffey Bridge, outside Caragh village, Count Kildare.
The scene where a truck crashed into the Liffey Bridge last night. The driver was not seriously injured and the lorry was removed. Diversions remain in place.
From top: Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer and HSE CEO Paul Reid
This morning.
Via Fergal Bowers:
The Health Service Executive and the Department of Health have been unable to provide data on the number of patients with Covid-19 in hospital and the number admitted for other reasons who happen to test positive while in hospital.
Following a request from RTÉ News to the HSE for this information, the HSE directed the query to the Department of Health.
The HSE said that as this information is reported to National Public Health Emergency Team, the query needed to go to that department.
Today, the Department said that due the current Covid-19 case volumes and the emergence of the Omicron variant, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre is unable to provide a response at this time.
Anyone?
No data available on Covid hospital admissions (RTE)
Photocall Ireland
Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD says the fact Cabinet can this morning consider relaxing close contact rules underlines the importance of the #Covid19 vaccination campaigns, and says Ireland is today expected to reach 10 million vaccine doses administered | https://t.co/i93Tp5nSL1 pic.twitter.com/Ns9Fvjmppb
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) January 12, 2022
‘My recommendation to Government this morning is that we relax the close contact rules’, Minister for Health @DonnellyStephen says ahead of Cabinet. ‘It’s quite a burden’ he says, acknowledging the sacrifices people have made | https://t.co/i93Tp5nSL1 pic.twitter.com/ypKY4ZGvCP
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) January 12, 2022
This morning.
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Taoiseach Micheal Martin (above), Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly (pic 3) and Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan (pic 2) arrive for a cabinet meeting where they are expected to sign off on new public health recommendations from NPHET regarding the Omicron variant.
Earlier: Staines On Humanity
This afternoon.
KN writes:
The petition against covid passes has just passed 30,000 signatures…
Fight!
Petition here
Earlier: The Conor Pass
“The two doses, they’re not enough for omicron. The third dose of the current vaccine is providing quite good protection against deaths, and decent protection against hospitalisations.”
“We have seen with a second dose very clearly that the first thing that we lost was the protection against infections.
“But then two months later, what used to be very strong in hospitalisation also went down. And I think this is what everybody’s worried about.
“The question mark, it is how long that protection lasts with the third dose…”
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla
Anyone?
Pfizer CEO says two Covid vaccine doses aren’t ‘enough for omicron’ (CNBC)
So glad to see people in Ireland speaking up against CAMHS. At 15 I had anxiety so bad I went to hospital before seeing them. At the appointments I told them I feel out of step in the world and like I didn’t fit into my all girls school. They just talked to me about hobbies and—
— Jamie (they/he) 👨🦯🏳️⚧️ (@A_Kae_A) January 11, 2022
TW // CAMHS , ED , eating disorder
Less than a week after having to admit I had an eating disorder as a kid, CAMHS insisted on weighing me. I wasn’t ready for that, so they decided they should just come to my house instead and traumatise me in my own living room. https://t.co/LJyH7UPKR2
— 💀 Mimo the Bard 💀 They/Them 💀 (@AmimiOfficial) January 11, 2022
CAMHS told me i couldn’t have depression because i wore eyeliner
like HOW do they come to these conclusions https://t.co/1QxTsjhMXx
— megan (@lambofgofff) January 11, 2022
This afternoon.
A small sample of the enormous online response prompted by Sinéad O’Connor’s condemnation of Tusla and the HSE’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Ms O’Connor’s 17-year-old son Shane, who was on suicide watch, was found dead last weekend after he went missing from hospital.
Ms O’Connor said on Twitter:
“A month ago Shane was brought to CAMHS after vanishing leaving suicide notes including detailed funeral plans. They discharged him. Said he had no plans. When objections were raised by the adult with him she was told “planning a funeral is no different to planning a wedding”.
“If I may venture … I’ve been married more times than Zsa Zsa Ga-fucking-bor and I’m here to tell CAMHS that planning my child’s funeral is nothing remotely similar to planning his wedding. Which will now never happen. Because you’re unfit for purpose.”
Previously: Tusla And The Silencing
