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Dr Deborah Brix

“There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU [intensive care unit] and then have a heart or kidney problem.

Some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. The intent is … if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that.”

Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force

Anyone?

Birx says government is classifying all deaths of patients with coronavirus as ‘COVID-19’ deaths, regardless of cause (Fox)

Feds classifying all coronavirus patient deaths as ‘COVID-19’ deaths, regardless of cause (New York Post)

PA

Meanwhile…

Hmm.

Oh.

This morning.

Spotted in Dublin.

Niamh Kiernan tweetz:

Time to take advertising signs off our buildings, streetscapes and urban spaces?

We’re probably going to start seeing more of this in the coming weeks and months…

Self isolators of the world unite!

A great and eerie video compilation of the global lockdown set to the melancholic strains of Morrisey singing Everyday is Like Sunday.

Come, Armageddon! Come!

Related: The Empty Streets Of San Francisco

Previously: Sunday Drivers

UPDATE:

An image of Clare teenager Conor Wilmot, who died by suicide in May 2017, was used online falsely claiming he was the first boy to die from Covid-19 in the UK

Via The Clare Echo:

Conor Wilmot died by suicide in May 2017 following a twisted internet game, Blue Whale.

Now members of the Wilmot family have been disgusted following the publication of misinformation online.

Pictures of Conor have appeared on online articles claiming that he is Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab who was the first thirteen year old boy in the United Kingdom who is known to have died COVID-19.

Melanie Wilmot outlined her frustration at pictures of her younger brother being used in such fashion. “We’re devastated that they can do this, frankly had enough just let us be and leave Conor alone”.

She appealed to people to report such content if they came across it. “I have well and truly had enough of the news and their crap,” she added.

‘Leave us alone’ – Sixmilebridge family horrified at being falsely linked to UK COVID-19 death (Páraic McMahon, Clare Echo)

Previously: Conor Wilmot ‘found something on the internet that went wrong’ (Irish Times,  May 16. 2017)

Last night.

On RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live.

Ms Byrne put it to Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer at the HSE, that the official figures may not reveal the “whole story” about the prevalence of Covid-19 in Ireland.

Ms  Byrne suggested that because of the delays and changes in testing criteria, and because Ireland isn’t testing people who are asymptomatic, there must be a lot of unknown cases in Ireland.

Dr Henry admitted that Ireland could “never, ever” pick up every single case of Covid-19. He said the purpose of testing is to trigger public health actions which are designed to stem or halt the transmission of the virus.

During their discussion, they had this exchange.

Claire Byrne: “I suppose my question is how do we know we’re bending the curve, when we don’t know how much of this virus there is out there?”

Dr Colm Henry: “Because our modelling takes so much more into account. It takes in, as I said, data coming into acute hospitals. I takes into account trends in intensive care units, we know, looking at the trends in admission to intensive care, it is not as steep as we feared a week or two ago. It is too early to say it Claire, how sustained that will be.

“And again that message is there, that each and every one of us have the power to save lives, to prevent people getting critically ill and to avoid healthcare workers getting sick when we need them.”

Watch back in full here

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 this morning

This morning.

Anyone?/FIGHT!

Rollingnews

Restrictions are being slowly lifted across Europe

This morning.

Tis lifting.

Austria’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz has become the first European leader to provide specific dates for the end of lockdown measures.

He said the aim was to let smaller shops re-open as soon as April 14, with larger ones and shopping malls opening on May 1 if all goes well.

In Spain, which after Italy has seen the highest number of deaths in Europe, Prime minister Pedro Sanchez has said that some economic restrictions could be lifted after Easter.

European countries to follow Italy with plans to lift coronavirus lockdown in days with schools and shops reopening (The Sun)

Graph via The Sun

However…

Eau.