The thing about the lockdown, as a thirty-something year old man, is that it’s a lot like purgatory probably is. Think about it: You get to sit at home, on the couch, in front of the television all day long. But there’s no sport on. The creator himself could hardly have devised a more frustrating […]
As questions abound about the original source of the COVID-19 outbreak the Washington Post has reported that it has acquired official documents that show that in 2018 the US Embassy in Beijing sent scientists to analyse the conditions at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which was studying, amongst other things, coronaviruses in bats. Two […]
After Donald Trump, at least partly to distract from his own failures over Coronavirus, announced last night that he would be defunding the World Health Organisation, the reaction in Ireland was pretty much exactly what you would expect. “An indefensible decision”, pronounced Simon Coveney, accusing the US President of “undermining trust” in the WHO: This […]
A new study has shown that Irish nursing homes appear to be hit worse by Covid-19 than some other European countries. The international study by Adelina Comas-Herrera and Joseba Zalakain was published by the International Long Term Care Policy Network and examined mortality in care home residents during the coronavirus crisis. In looking at in […]
The World Health Organization is being criticised for being too close to China, one of his major funders. Director-General Tedros Adhanom has been loud in his praise of China’s management of the epidemic and has failed (in the eyes of his critics) to point out its shortcomings. In a blistering article in Foreign Policy, a […]
Due to physical distancing requirements it has not been possible for all 159 TD’s to meet in Dáil Eireann. An interim measure aimed at overcoming this has involved nominating a proportional number of Party and Group representatives to attend and vote on emergency legislation. But this is not seen as anything like a long-term solution-especially […]
A leading charity in the UK has claimed the coronavirus is “running wild” in care homes for older people. Caroline Abrahams, the charity director for Age UK said the figures being released by the authorities in the country were “airbrushing older people out like they don’t matter”. She says the official death toll for Britain is not […]
It’s quite extraordinary, when you put it all in one place, how incompetent the Irish Government has been in relation to the management of the threat Coronavirus poses to nursing homes. At the time of writing, there are around 214 so-called “clusters” of cases in Irish nursing homes, out of 268 nursing homes in total. […]
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A heartwarming video showing a Donegal grandad who beat COVID-19 returning home on Good Friday to huge applause from the neighbours has gone viral. “The prayers worked,” a smiling Dónal Bradley told his neighbours from a safe distance. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” “I’m as weak as water,” he said. “But I’ll be […]
A company developing cell therapy products says that six patients who were at ‘high risk’ of dying from COVID-19 were treated with a new therapy and all survived. According to the Jerusalem Post, Israeli company Pluristem Therapeutics says the preliminary data shows promise for the experimental treatment for the coronavirus. Pluristem reported that it had provided six […]
An interesting little addendum to the story this morning about Ireland being the tenth worst country in the world for Coronavirus deaths per million people: All of the ten countries that head that list, Ireland, and the nine worse than us, are in the European Union. You have to get to 11th on the list, […]