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This morning.

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Department of Health, Dublin 2.

“I’d like to take the chance to talk to the children. The numbers we’re looking at now, it is not your fault. It’s not because you’re going to school.”

Professor Martin Cormican, Clinical Lead on Infection Control, HSE.

NPHET Briefing (RTÉ)

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Above from left: Nicki Killeen, HSE National Social Inclusion Office/Drugs.ie; Aidan Thompson, DJ and Promoter; Fionnuala Moran, Presenter RTÉ Pulse; Robbie Kitt, DJ and Musician; and Kasey Keating Brady, DJ and HSE Dental Nurse

This morning.

The Grand Social, Dublin.

With the night-time economy reopening, the HSE has launched a new drugs harm-reduction campaign, reminding people who choose to use drugs: ‘If You Go, Go Slow’. HSE Drugs.ie unveiled the campaign at a live panel event, which brought together the HSE, DJs and event industry representatives.

Also: if you are offered an experimental injection from a stranger, possibly in a tent, just say no.

Pause.

FIGHT!

Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

This evening.

You tell ’em, Bill.

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HSE CEO Paul Reid at Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin yesterday

This morning.

Via Independent.ie:

With more than 1,800 HSE staff out due to Covid-related issues around the country, University Hospital Limerick and Galway University Hospital confirmed yesterday they had to cancel surgeries.

In some cases they even had to close wards due to the increase in Covid-19 patients at a time of growing levels of respiratory illness and emergency attendances.

Surgeries cancelled as 1,800 health workers now out due to Covid, HSE chief calls for booster shots (Independent.ie)

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….via RTÉ News”

Health Service Executive CEO Paul Reid has said there is a “significant proportion” of healthcare staff who are not able to work because of Covid-19 infections.

Speaking on Morning Ireland, he said that from his perspective he is anxious to see booster vaccine campaigns for health care workers, adding that the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) continues to assess the evidence relating to booster shots.

He said his concerns relate to healthcare workers becoming ill with Covid-19 and the subsequent impact on the health service and “secondly, what we are seeing is emerging outbreaks within healthcare settings.”

‘Anxiety’ among healthcare staff as case numbers rise (RTÉ)

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Above from left: Damien McCallion, HSE National Lead, Vaccination Programme; Paul Reid, CEO HSE; and Anne O’Connor, COO, HSE in Dr Steevens’ Hospital this afternoon

This afternoon.

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

The weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19.

HSE in bank holiday vaccine push to ‘increase uptake’ (RTÉ)

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No one likes a snitch.

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…are we hot?

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Mark Little of disinfo agency Kinzen

Sunday.

The Business Post reported that The Department of Health is paying Kinzen, an Irish media tech start-up, to identify online misinformation related to Covid-19 and the Covid-19 vaccines.

Via The Business Post:

The work, which began earlier this year and consists of almost daily briefings from Kinzen to state officials, marks the first time the department has engaged the services of a third-party company to conduct work on misinformation. It is also believed to be the first time a government body in Ireland has paid a third-party company for this type of work.

Kinzen, founded by former RTÉ news journalist Mark Little and Aine Kerr in 2018, promotes itself as a service which can track disinformation campaigns online. It says it has developed its own automatic speech recognition (ASR) system which can sift through audio and video content to highlight “high risk” material. It combines this with a language model it feeds with terms which are relevant to searching for potential misinformation.

…Little said the work with the Department of Health was entirely “research-driven” and did not involve the company’s scoring system which rates content depending on the level of “risk” identified.

…Little said that all credit for Ireland’s successful rollout of the vaccine should go to public health workers and the Irish people. He said Kinzen was proud to have supported the Department of Health.

“Our role was to bring a global perspective on disinformation to the Irish environment,” he said.

“By helping public health communicators stay ahead of campaigns of disinformation, we hope we helped flatten the curve of an infodemic that deepened the impact of the Covid-19 crisis in other countries.”

Not all heroes deploy tasteless metaphors.

Kinzen briefing the Department of Health on Covid-19 online misinformation (Business Post)

Pic via Mark Little

From top, left to right: Niamh O’Beirne, HSE National Lead Test and Tracing; Professor Martin Cormican, HSE National Clinical Lead Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control Team Division of Microbiology; and Damien McCallion, HSE National Lead, Vaccination Programme; Paul Reid, HSE CEO, at Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19

This afternoon.

Weekly HSE covid briefing.

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

Health Service Executive CEO Paul Reid said

“it’s never too late” to register to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, as he urged those who have not yet received a vaccine to come forward.

“Today I would like to make a very specific and clear call to those who have not yet come forward for vaccination. The first message is very clearly, be assured, vaccinations are working.

“The evidence is extremely strong, in terms of reduced illness, reduced hospitalisations coming through, reduced ICU admissions, and indeed, reduced mortality.”

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He said the programme continues at pace, with a priority now to vaccinate those in the 12-15 age group. Mr Reid said that 124,000 people in this age group had signed up so far, with 72,000 having been administered with a first dose.

Over 120,000 in 12-15 age group sign up for vaccine (RTÉ)

Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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Life-saving treatment DENIED.

That’ll learn them.

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Paul Reid, CEO HSE

This morning.

The Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive Paul Reid has said that as of this morning, almost 65,000 12- to 15-year-olds have registered online for a Covid-19 vaccine.

Via RTÉ:

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Mr Reid said this reflects “a very strong point” in the vaccination programme.

He said 6.28 million vaccines have now been administered here, with over 80% of adults fully vaccinated and almost 90% partially vaccinated.

He said the vaccine uptake in Ireland has been “phenomenal” as they move through the age groups, and the benefits are “really strong“.

“What we have seen as we move down through the younger ages is not an immediate uptake on the first day or two or three, but a strong uptake over a period of a week or two weeks, and that’s been reflected in 16- to 17-year-olds and now almost 70% of them have registered. Similarly…the 18- to 29-year-olds over 80%.

65,000 in 12-15 age group register online for vaccine (RTÉ)

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