Acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn at yesterday's press conference. Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie Acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn at yesterday's press conference. Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie A FURTHER 324 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Ireland, the Department of Health has said this evening.In a statement, it said that a further three people confirmed to have Covid-19 have died.
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“Please avail of a test when it is offered. Last week 1 in 10 close contacts who had a test were found to be positive – many of them had no symptoms.”
PCR testing here using 35 to 45 cycles is too sensitive and is catching historical 'cases' of people with dead virus fragments which are false positive up to 2% of tests. Stop promoting the casedemic drop the sensitivity to below 30 cycles to test for living virus only.
13000 PCRtests today With a false positive rate of 0.8% that is around 100 false positive results ie. positive but no COVID virus RNA present. Using Ct above 40 in the PCRtests, a huge proportion will be 'late positives' ie. virus RNA found but not infectious.
Paying the price for FG's disastrous failure to have checks on ports and airports as part of an all Ireland strategy.
When did those 3 deaths occur?
How many people died of cancer and heart attacks today In Ireland?
Fun yesterday 234 today 324 🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
but...but...but, no deaths. Haven't heard that one for a while now.
Lock the County down ffs