@Paddy_Barrett Hi Dr. Barrett, I’m a 55-year-old male seeking your expertise in preventive cardiology. My cholesterol is 6.8, and my recent CAC score indicates moderate coronary artery disease. I understand you’re not taking new patients, but I would appreciate your consideration
I've posted this chart before but I've never felt so strongly that the whole country needs to see it.
This wave is not the same as the first.
Hospital and ICU numbers are a fraction of where they were in April.
Deaths are only at 2.7% of peak.
Level 5 would be excessive.
4 / This all begs the question of just what is our the objective of public policy regarding #covid19? The curve has been well and truly flattened and the risk of our hospitals being over-run appears to have been averted. What now?
3 / A welcome feature of recent data, largely uncommented in public debate, has been the very sharp drop in the apparent intensity of #COVID19 with steady falls in numbers hospitalised and admitted to ICU as a proportion of those diagnosed with Covid (30 day moving average).
2/ This #COVID19 national rise conceals a wide variety of different patterns at county level. Five counties are at 1.0 or less: Longford, Mayo, Dublin, Galway, Cork & Tipp. Five are at 4.0 or higher: Carlow, Sligo, Donegal, Wexford & Offaly.
1/ My layman's measure of the #COVID19 R measure (the daily rate of cases last week divided by daily rate of cases the previous fortnight) shows a significant rise since June.
@ConorAAIreland Sad news about Big Jack. The nation owes him a great debt for the craic provided during the Euro’s in ‘88 and the 1990 World Cup. I’m still recovering from the ‘90 WC! RIP Jack