The Department of Health has been notified of 9,324 PCR-confirmed cases of Covid-19, as well as 10,542 positive antigen tests logged through the HSE portalhttps://t.co/bk0XchNzPe

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 25, 2022

NI #COVID19 data has been updated:

📊1,465 positive cases reported in the past 24 hours. Sadly, 7 deaths have been reported in that period.

💉3,752,248 vaccines administered in total.

Vaccines➡️ https://t.co/Yfa0hHVmRL

DoH dashboard will be updated on Monday 28 March. pic.twitter.com/c3aYSqilf5

— Department of Health (@healthdpt) March 26, 2022

Saturday, 26/03/2022 Ireland
New COVID cases & deaths are no longer published at weekends.
I'll tweet them with Monday's data.

Hospital 1,458
ICU 51 (8 new admissions).

— Dr. Mairéad De Búrca (@DrMaireadDB) March 26, 2022

NI #COVID19 data has been updated:

📊1,172 positive cases reported in the past 24 hours. Sadly, 2 deaths have been reported in that period.

💉3,753,328 vaccines administered in total.

Vaccines➡️ https://t.co/Hd2Q8bOSHV

DoH dashboard will be updated on Monday 28 March. pic.twitter.com/9dwZs6x8Xe

— Department of Health (@healthdpt) March 27, 2022

Professor Cliona Ní Cheallaigh said if people do not want to get Covid-19 they should wear a facemask because "it's Covid soup out there" https://t.co/GdONyZJys1

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 27, 2022

28th February end of covid restrictions followed by a steep rise in cases and hospitalisations. Not rocket science 🚀 🤔 pic.twitter.com/flJZ9XVbEr

— contactjari (@contactjari) March 27, 2022

"Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives..."

COVID deniers are constantly shouting about the "authoritarianism" of vaccines and lockdowns, but forcing vulnerable people to work and attend school during a deadly pandemic is a kind of authoritarianism too. pic.twitter.com/s7PNX0ylte

— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) March 26, 2022

One thing I learned living in Denmark was that Scandinavians are *extremely* aware of their international reputation, something that can lead them to take parochial, jingoistic decisions under the guise of progressivism. pic.twitter.com/r4xDSdylg4

— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) March 26, 2022

1569 Covid19 hospital cases is 134% pf last Sunday which is the 19th highest day of pandemic, 1-18 were January 2021 /2 pic.twitter.com/slrbLmHhTG

— Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺 (@andrewflood) March 27, 2022

Vaccine protection also holding for ICU where New ICU in week is 0.05% cases, 3.79% new hospital cases. This huge protection is all that's kept us out of a lockdown as we experience case levels a magnitude & more higher than that which required pre-vaccine lockdown /4 pic.twitter.com/lN2beljUIg

— Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺 (@andrewflood) March 27, 2022

Very hard to predict what is going to happen in the key period towards the end of next week because testing has been so much reduced. Thats the key period because if hospital cases continue to increase we'd have the highest every hospital case number next weekend /6

— Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺 (@andrewflood) March 27, 2022

Hospitals in Ireland are not safe for patients or staff amid a major surge in Covid-19, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has warned https://t.co/f6ILyvHT8K

— Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺 (@andrewflood) March 27, 2022

Thank God for the good spell of weather this past week or so. I bet it is saving us from total collapse so far. The next few weeks is going to be one of the most dangerous and nit just for catching covid but for any illness or injury. It's insanity.

— Annemarie Doherty (@AnnmarieD0herty) March 27, 2022

From January 4th👇Any person who’s been paying attention knew this would happen. The “caught off guard” and “couldn’t have predicted this” lines are bullshit. Our politicians and public health *knew* this would happen and know it will happen again and again but don’t care. https://t.co/tksz3JNMw9

— Biff and Finn (@BiffAndFinn) March 26, 2022

I swear if they say one more time "no one could have predicted this" I'm going to lose my mind because literally everyone with a brain could have predicted this. Half of my uni classes all have covid and their families!

— Fox over hedgehog (@foxoverhedgehog) March 26, 2022

Oh sure, yes.

No-one in Ireland could have foreseen this latest Covid wave - another one, again - and warned about it, loudly.

No: "we" were all "caught off-guard." https://t.co/BWk2Ps8x7f

— Joan // Stay apart, Mask up (@clicky_here) March 27, 2022

Hopefully most of us will be ok but children too young to be vaccinated are a worry.

"The intrinsic severity of Omicron BA.2 in children who had no past COVID-19 or vaccination is not mild, and in fact, they had higher odds of PICU admissions, mechanical ventilation and oxygen use."https://t.co/fkZJqaWylM pic.twitter.com/jLUVKhoA1q

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 24, 2022

Not sure if this line of research will ever lead anywhere but am posting it for reference.

Are some flu/pneumonia deaths pre-2020 related to an undetected sarscov2 variant?

— Laura Henderson (@SixandLaura) March 24, 2022

I suspect that sarscov2 was circulating prior to 2020 & many kids had exposure ~2019, conferring some temporary immunity to that cohort. Which we are now seeing “wane”/become less effective with antigenic drift approximately 2 years later. #biennial_severity
Is that possible?

— Laura Henderson (@SixandLaura) March 24, 2022