921 now in hospital with Covid-19 as number of patients exceeds April 2020 peak

NOW THERE ARE 921 people hospitalized with Covid-19, a number that exceeds the previous peak of 881 in the hospital in mid-April.

Hospitalizations peaked at 881 on April 15 of last year during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

HSE CEO Paul Reid said in Twitter that “everyone understands how serious this is now.”

Reid said there are now 75 people in the ICU, a drop of one patient from the figures released last night.

Hospital figures this morning.

Source: Covid-19 Data Hub

Yesterday, HSE National Director of Acute Operations Liam Woods said the HSE faces pressures every year, but in his experience, none have been on the scale of the current Covid-19 situation.

“Normally, it would be what would be known as car pressures and indeed flu, and the incidence of flu,” Woods said on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.

“Basically, there is no flu of any significant level, or not at all, on record through the Virus Reference Laboratory at this time, and the levels from the carts are historically low but a very poor indicator.

“No, in the time that I work in the acute operations area, which is six years within the HSE, I have not seen a threat on this scale that grows so fast. And that’s why we are responding the way we do, ”he said.

Limerick University Hospital ICU consultant Dr. Catherine Motherway said intensive care units “expect to see an increase in numbers as admissions continue to come in.”

“If we can prevent us [the virus] Before now, we hope to see the end of this by the end of the year, ”said Motherway speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.

He outlined the possible situation of how medical care would work if hospitals began to run out of beds and available resources.

He said that “different ethics” are established in these situations in which workers must seek “to save the most lives instead of treating the sickest first.”

However, he said that this is not the current situation and that “it will not happen if we stop this disease now.”

“None of us want to be there and none of us will be there if we control the transmission of the virus in the community.”