An example of how #COVID19 can spread if given the opportunity. Please keep it small, keep it safe & keep your distance.
If you have symptoms please isolate immediately
If you are a close contact please restrict your movements - do not go to work, uni or meet with friends @TheUSI
Current affairs programming needs to stop giving the same airtime and weight to opinion writers as they do to medics/scientists/experts. Public health messaging is consistently being eroded by efforts to find ‘balance.’
Herd immunity didn’t develop to cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, measles, TB, malaria, or plague -> public health measures were used to control them until vaccines or elimination strategies were developed.
Dr Colm Henry @CcoHse@HSELive said: “There are currently 73 #COVID19 patients in hospital, 9 of these have been admitted in the past 24 hours. 14 of these patients are in ICU. We are seeing a sharp increase in rate of admissions of #COVID19 patients into our acute hospitals.”
I’m not linking the article as not amplifying it
But I will say I cannot understand physicians who aren’t PH docs making broad DEFINITIVE statements on pandemic management
I placed first in my undergrad med class in PH, spent a Summer interning for @DrMikeRyan in WHO in (1)
According to the HSE Coronavirus helpline, travellers to Ireland from a non-green list country must restrict their movement for the full 14 day period regardless if they tested negative for C19 after their arrival @rtenews