elacsaplau
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What precisely does this mean?
Id be wary about interpreting numbers of positives over the weekends. Generally there are only a couple of scientists on call ( in hospital laboratories anyway). Also there is a very large backlog of swabs so these numbers may refer to some cases that were swabbed a week ago. I missed the news was there any mention of daily Lab capacity or turnaround times ?
Id be wary about interpreting numbers of positives over the weekends. Generally there are only a couple of scientists on call ( in hospital laboratories anyway). Also there is a very large backlog of swabs so these numbers may refer to some cases that were swabbed a week ago. I missed the news was there any mention of daily Lab capacity or turnaround times ?
There is a testing backlog in the middle of a pandemic. What about statutory meal breaks and week-end overtime? This is a crisis what about the Beloved Leader weilding his emergency powers baton? What about underemployed technicians and scientists in 3rd level institutions, set up 24 hour rotas?The unions have also demanded 2 hour lunch breaks and nobody is to work weekends.
Faster than they would like, the Government's Great Coronavirus Pandemic Response Plan, GGCPRP is unravelling.
I'm sure I've missed loads, ICU beds, the stupid yellow booklet and so on.
- Not enough kits to to take swabs
- Announcements for orders for 55,000 new sample kits. That's about enough to test 0.012% of the population once. And sure no-one will need to be tested more than once.
- New swabbing centres set up remote from testing centres - no logistics planners available to Leo, Holohan & Co?
- Queues and delays for swabbing for infections and testing the swabs grow longer
- Testing reagents run out in at least one testing centre
- Industrialist disputes the number of respirators / ventilators produced by Medtronics in Galway - IDA says 50% of world-wide ICU demand, industrialist, a supplier to Medtronics, says 10%. No one knows how many we'll need
- Government announces two-week lockdown, UK scientist says their lockdown must last until June
- Lab technicians' union insists on a work-to-rule
Please explain how those most vulnerable in our society will survive this pandemic and how anyone can identify the peak?
Faster than they would like, the Government's Great Coronavirus Pandemic Response Plan, GGCPRP is unravelling.
I'm sure I've missed loads, ICU beds, the stupid yellow booklet and so on.
- Not enough kits to to take swabs
- Announcements for orders for 55,000 new sample kits. That's about enough to test 0.012% of the population once. And sure no-one will need to be tested more than once.
- New swabbing centres set up remote from testing centres - no logistics planners available to Leo, Holohan & Co?
- Queues and delays for swabbing for infections and testing the swabs grow longer
- Testing reagents run out in at least one testing centre
- Industrialist disputes the number of respirators / ventilators produced by Medtronics in Galway - IDA says 50% of world-wide ICU demand, industrialist, a supplier to Medtronics, says 10%. No one knows how many we'll need
- Government announces two-week lockdown, UK scientist says their lockdown must last until June
- Lab technicians' union insists on a work-to-rule
Please explain how those most vulnerable in our society will survive this pandemic and how anyone can identify the peak?