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There are 650 Covid-19 patients receiving some level of critical care, according to the HSE executive director.
Paul Reid said there are 214 people in intensive care units and 436 receiving advanced ventilation.
He said teams are “fighting to maintain the levels of care we value” and “to save lives.”
Our teams are fighting to maintain the levels of care we value and save lives. 650 # COVID-19 patients are now receiving levels of critical care. 214 in ICU and 436 in advanced Resp support. It’s not an Emergency Department crisis right now, but it’s probably more critical than that. @HSELive
– Paul Reid (@paulreiddublin) January 24, 2021
The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals has risen again after a slight drop yesterday.
There are currently 1,914 people hospitalized, 80 patients admitted and 47 discharged.
131 of the 214 ICU patients are connected to ventilators.
The latest HSE operations report shows that there are 343 adult intensive care beds open and 24 intensive care beds available nationwide.
Ten acute hospitals do not have critical care capacity.
Among the hospitals most under pressure are Limerick University Hospital (141 patients) and Cork University Hospital (140 patients) and St Vincent Hospital in Dublin (136).
Four other hospitals also care for more than 100 Covid patients: Galway University Hospital (116), Tallaght (112) and Connolly (102) hospitals in Dublin.
Meanwhile, the majority of long-term care home residents and half of all frontline healthcare workers should have received their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of today.
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Dr Jack Lambert, an infectious disease consultant at Mater Hospital in Dublin, has said that the number of Covid-19 cases in the community is “flattening out,” as are new hospital admissions.
However, he cautioned that intensive care units will continue to be “stressed” for the next two weeks, noting that once you are admitted, you stay there for at least a few weeks, and any additional numbers admitted to the ICU add up. at that pressure.
Speaking to Brendan O’Connor on RTÉ Radio One, he said that they have been challenged at Mater due to Covid-19 infections, but that “it is not Armageddon.
“Some other hospitals have had more challenges than us this time,” Dr. Lambert said.
He said that every hospital in the country has been affected by this wave of Covid-19, describing it as a “sobering” experience.
Last night, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Holohan said Ireland was beginning to flatten the infection curve, but that the country faces restrictions until at least June as concerns grow about the impact of new variants of the virus. and delays in the supply of vaccines.
The number of new cases has dropped below 2,000 for the first time since January 1.
Last night, there were 77 more coronavirus-related deaths reported by the Health Department, and 76 of them occurred this month.
The average age of those who died was 84 years and the age range was 43 to 98 years.
There have now been 2,947 Covid-19-related deaths since the outbreak began last year.
The Department also reported 1,910 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 186,184.
57% of confirmed cases are found in people under 45 years of age, while the average age of confirmed cases is 40 years.
710 of the cases are in Dublin, 150 in Cork, 103 in Meath, 102 in Limerick and 86 in Louth. The remaining 759 cases are spread across all other counties.
The national incidence rate of 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants has been reduced to 955.5. The highest rate is found in Co Monaghan (1,787.1) and the lowest in Co Leitrim (318.3).
Dr. Holohan has said that “through the solidarity shown by families and communities across the country in recent weeks, we are beginning to flatten the curve of Covid-19 infection.”
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