Saved by The Consumption it seems. Ireland was one of the few countries in Europe to keep BCG going - only stopping 5 years ago when stocks ran short. TB vaccination seems to be having a downward effect on Covid.
Especially when you compare us with our nearest neighbour which stopped the BCG in the 90's.
It's believeable when you consider how maddeningly rampant it is in nursing homes and how high the community transmission figure is - which suggests a very high degree of asymptomatic transmission. A quarter of cases are healthworkers - but less than 6% of those are getting it in the hospital.
Ireland may even be cresting the peak of the infection]. Something somewhat unbelieveable - we've had 36 deaths today - but maybe not far off. The majority over 80.
But 400-1000 deaths - compared to 60,000 next door?
Yikes.
Especially when you compare us with our nearest neighbour which stopped the BCG in the 90's.
It's believeable when you consider how maddeningly rampant it is in nursing homes and how high the community transmission figure is - which suggests a very high degree of asymptomatic transmission. A quarter of cases are healthworkers - but less than 6% of those are getting it in the hospital.
Ireland may even be cresting the peak of the infection]. Something somewhat unbelieveable - we've had 36 deaths today - but maybe not far off. The majority over 80.
But 400-1000 deaths - compared to 60,000 next door?
Yikes.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.