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New feature in
@ScienceMagazine
on our ongoing cross-species research on forgetting during early infant development, with
@SarahDPower
&
@WB_Markus
at
@mpib_berlin
. Also featuring
@erikasstewart
at
@tcddublin
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Listening to
@EamonRyan
on
@SaturdayRTE
deflect and evade questions of travel quarantine. A year into the pandemic. On an island.
How can anyone expect the
@greenparty_ie
to lead on difficult climate change policies when they won't take science seriously even in a pandemic?
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Today is the worst death toll of the pandemic and
@DonnellyStephen
is offering no serious strategy to prevent introduction of new variants. The proposed quarantine measures are a charade that can't succeed, and everyone knows it.
#TonightVMTV
#WeCanBeZero
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An evasive interview from
@MichealMartinTD
on
@RTE_PrimeTime
.
.
When a surge of infections happens for a 3rd time, it stops being 'unprecedented', and we start being simply 'unprepared'.
A strategy that relies solely on vaccines is not a strategy. March 5th, what then?
#rtept
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If
@LeoVaradkar
wants to discuss Perth, let's compare:
Perth: 2021: 1 case, 0 deaths, 5 days of lockdown - & mostly normal life around it.
Ireland 2021: >100,000 cases, >1,000 deaths, 2 - 3 months of lockdown, then hoping for Level 3 restrictions
🤔
#WeCanBeZero
Leo Varadkar tells Dáil that there's no strategy "that avoids the risk of rolling lockdowns, or snap lockdowns" - gives example of Perth, a reasonably isolated city; says Ireland in similar situ would face them regularly. Says 'living with Covid' means keeping it at low levels
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Alternative perspective:
we are severely restricting 4.9 million people within a 5 km radius, partly because government is unwilling to enact adequate quarantine restrictions on a few thousand travellers.
Pre Covid 560K people would have traveled during same period. We continue to demonise small number of people 7K who have negative tests before they travel and on return and will isolate anyway. If we continue this demonisation we won’t have an airline industry left post covid
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Please publicly recognise that COVID is airborne. Recommend FFP2/KN95 mask wearing in public. Ask all employers & state organisations to review air hygiene in their buildings. Encourage greater use of antigen testing (& provide guidelines). Anything less is ignoring the science.
🔵washing hands regularly,
🔵keeping a safe distance from others,
🔵avoiding crowded places
🔵reducing social contacts as much as possible.
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That was close......
Has the government been too slow to introduce mandatory hotel quarantining for people arriving in Ireland?
We asked one thousand adults on our
@AmarachResearch
Smartphone Panel, and here's what they said:
#cblive
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It has been 8 weeks since December 26th, and we have 9 more weeks of tight restrictions according to
@MichealMartinTD
.
Since we are clearly in a 4+ month lockdown anyway, is there any reason not to aim for
#ZeroCovid
?
State's tight restrictions to remain until May with a phased return of schools to begin next month, sources say, as case numbers plateau
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We are literally weeks away from vaccinating children in Ireland, yet the policy is to allow them to be infected with Omicron.
We need FFP2 masks, HEPA filters in all classrooms, testing in all schools, and staggered school reopening until child vaccination complete in February.
However, given the very high and rising incidence of COVID-19 across all age groups in the community, it is inevitable that children will pick up this infection from household contacts in the days and weeks ahead.
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Sending over PPE supplies from
@tcddublin
biology labs to
@stjamesdublin
. Many thanks to all the labs and staff that contributed.
PCR machines next?
#irishscientistsoncall
#COVID19
#COVID19ireland
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Ireland now has 2 week mandatory hotel quarantine in place for travelers originating from a list of 33 countries.
But, there are exemptions for 8 different classes of traveler - including politicians.
Or, you can just change planes in London....
🤷♂️
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We don't owe our kids a thank you, we owe them an apology. We have ignored the science at almost every turn. Now we're heading into our 4th bout of restrictions due to lack of preventive planning & action. We have everything we need to do better.
#COVIDisAirborne
#VaccinesPlus
Taoiseach Micheál Martin gives thanks to the children of Ireland, "you are a very special generation. Thank you for what you have done and for what you continue to do". | Read more:
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Friends & colleagues in the USA are vaccinating their children.
In continental Europe, they're protecting their children in schools - with masks, air hygiene, and serial testing.
In Ireland & the UK, we're just letting them get infected & ignoring the science of risk to kids.
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Producing vaccines to a novel virus in under a year is difficult.
Living under rolling lockdowns is difficult.
Losing friends & relatives to
#COVID19
is difficult.
Negotiating with other politicans in Nothern Ireland is *your job*
@MichealMartinTD
. Please do it.
#ZeroCovid
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Why does
@DonnellyStephen
have such a concrete timeline in mind for a
#COVID19
strategy that he is not taking, and yet no clear timeline for the strategy that he is?
Current lockdown restrictions would remain in place beyond September with schools closed and the 5km travel limit reduced to 2km if the State pursued a zero Covid strategy, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has told the Seanad
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Whenever politicians speak about "personal responsibility" on Covid19 in the complete absence of any government strategy, they're asking you to do their jobs for them. We need "government responsibility", please.
#TonightVMTV
#cblive
I had so much more to say. Particularly wanted to take issue with
@nealerichmond
saying that it is up to 'personal responsibility' now - actually there is a lot the govt could and should be doing to make us safe again. Employees can't choose wfh. Many don't have space to isolate.
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Why would a country that consistently polls 90 % in favor of mandatory supervised travel quarantine, not want to keep
#COVID19
cases (and therefore restrictions) at effectively 'zero' in the domestic community?
#TonightVMTV
#rtept
#ZeroCovid
#NoCovid
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Very dissappointing performance from
@smytho
on the
@TonightVMTV
show. It's not clear that the government understands the seriousness of our situation. Their response has been disproportionately weak and ineffective. We are all paying the price.
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This not the latest medical evidence by any standard. The NIAC report *explicitly ignores* the growing evidence of how vaccination can reduce transmission in the community and therefore in schools. It also misrepresents evidence on exposure risks to teachers.
Minister for Education Norma Foley has defended the Government decision to change the vaccine schedule. She has told
#INTOCongress2021
that it is based on latest medical evidence. “This is not a value judgment on any given profession. This is simply the science”,
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The Tánaiste
@LeoVaradkar
has it backwards. A "
#ZeroCovid
" suppression strategy means less time in restrictions, and can be achieved with a shorter more effective lockdown.
Is he open to having the Government's 'strategy' equally interrogated? Let's put everything on the table.
Tánaiste fairly tears into ZeroCovid - says it’s as much a slogan as a strategy to some people.
He says he wants to see tougher interrogation of the advocates for it on what exactly they want.
Taoiseach comes in and says ZeroCovid means a much longer lockdown than we have now.
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Okay, so Minister
@podonovan
is literally telling falsehoods on
@TonightVMTV
saying that "no country has achieved
#ZeroCovid
- it doesn't exist". While offering no vision forward for 2021. This is insulting.
#TonightVMTV
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To be clear, if we open up with hundreds of cases of the B117 variant in the community, it is *not* a suppression strategy.
ℹ️ Varadkar says Ireland is still working on a "revised plan to reopen our society and our economy", hopefully to be unveiled after Cabinet approval in two weeks' time - it will amount to "a modification" of the existing 'Living with Covid' plan
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New Zealand 🇳🇿 vaccine uptake has now overtaken most of Europe.
All Pfizer, with spaced doses for optimal immunity. This with a total of 28 COVID deaths and minimal time in social restrictions. Future remains uncertain but outstanding leadership from
@jacindaardern
so far.
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Just got my first jab. Many thanks to the excellent health care staff here at
@ucddublin
. Fantastic operation from
@HSELive
&
@salesforce
. Special thanks to countless unnamed and under-resourced scientists who's research allowed these vaccines to be created.
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This is isn't going to do it lads.
Cabinet Sub Committee:
📱Digital Certificates likely to be extended to gyms and hairdressers.
😷 People to be urged to wear face masks in crowded settings (both indoor and outdoors)
🧪 Antigen tests to play bigger role with close contacts in schools.
@VirginMediaNews
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Very pleased to be elected a Fellow of
@tcddublin
by my peers. Trinity continues to be a supportive and collegial environment for fundamental science and blue skies research.
#TrinityMonday
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No more excuses. No more nonsense. We got it wrong. Time to move on and form the strategy that will work for us.
The national incidence rate, over 14 days, is now at its highest since the pandemic began.
#covid19ireland
figures by county (now including December 24 and 25, for which figures hadn't been published before):
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The best thing I read in 2020:
"The West has failed – US and Europe have made a mess of handling the crisis"
by
@NaomiOhReally
in the
@IrishTimes
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@FergalBowers
Journalists should not be expected to take a stand. They should, however, be expected to be ask the difficult questions.
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This is what progress looks like
👇
'I think we need an All-Island approach, it would be more preferable to border controls.'
@HollyCairnsTD
and
@Fergusodowd
debate an All-Island approach to tackling Covid 19
#TonightVMTV
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Please just stop this craziness, now.
There is no evidence that the reopening of schools has led to an increase in transmission or levels of infection amongst school-going children or more widely across the population. 1/14
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The problem with Ireland is not division, it's our inertia. Our collective fear of putting one foot in front of the other.
Travel quarantine wouldn't be perfect without collaboration with Northern Ireland. But it would have prevented, or drastically reduced, our 2nd & 3rd waves
Ireland is indeed an island. But the State is not. That helps to partly explain why hotel quarantine is not the obvious slam dunk for the republic that people simplistically portray. When people suggest easy solutions to difficult problems, we should always be careful
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@saoirse_mchugh
"Deputy Prime Minister of a country receives 55 positive emails after making a controversial statement on prime time television".
How is this a story?
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Another spike in
#COVID19
cases, and increasing hospitalizations. But sure, let's open all the schools and all the colleges & universities, and all the pubs - all at the same time.
#COVID19ireland
#COVID19ireland
today:
307 cases; 1 death
Previous Tuesdays:
01/09: 217
25/08: 92
18/08: 190
11/08: 35
04/08: 45
28/07: 40
21/07: 36
5-day average: 175.2
7-day average: 151.43
(Previous 7 days: 119.71)
14-day cases/100k: 38.13
(7 days ago: 31.41)
In hospital: 49
In ICU: 6
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The problem is not the 5 % of adults who are unvaccinated, it's our complete lack of strategy & willful ignorance of science.
We need leadership on air hygiene, masks, testing, & enhanced public health support.
#VaccinesPlus
#COVIDisAirborne
#WhatsThePlanLads
@LeoVaradkar
5% of the nation's unvaccinated population "are causing the trouble"
@LeoVaradkar
tells
@BeckyCNN
-- but Christmas might not be canceled yet. He hopes no new restrictions will be put in place before then and boosters will aid waning immunity.
#Ireland
#covid
#restrictions
#pubs
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Schools contribute significantly to transmission in the community. The R number is now hovering above 1. If we want to keep primary schools open then we need to compensate elsewhere. Otherwise we'll experience a 4th wave very soon.
I am not a prof & I am really bad at maths but if cases are rising in children after schools have reopened it seems fair to think the rise in cases in children MIGHT have something to do with the schools, containing loads of children, reopening? But I am probably being stupid.
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@laoneill111
The cause of Covid19 is exposure to SARS-CoV-2. Risk of exposure is greater for essential workers, especially under restrictions, & especially in socially interactive work environments (e.g. schools). Also, essential workers contribute to population transmission => vaccinate.
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No matter what anyone tells you, it's OK to not want your children to get COVID.
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The government has deprioritized exposed frontline workers for vaccines, including teachers, based on seven sentences in a NIAC report that cite an absence of evidence.
In other words, we are disregarding international scientific evidence in favor of local ignorance.
The National Immunisation Advisory Committee has issued updated recommendations on prioritisation groups for COVID-19 vaccination.
Read the statement here:
#COVID19
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🚨🚨1012 cases
Can we pleaee stop talking about what we feel is proportionate and just get real?
#COVID19ireland
:
1012 cases; 3 deaths
Previous Saturdays:
03/10: 613
26/09: 248
19/09: 274
12/09: 159
05/09: 231
5-day average: 635.6
7-day average: 580
(Previous 7 days: 448.1)
14-day cases/100k: 151.1
(7 days ago: 108.9)
In hospital: 194
In ICU: 31
@VirginMediaNews
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Can
@CarrollJennifer
provide a concrete source for how long lockdown will last under a Covid19 elimination strategy? Or for that matter, under the current Government strategy?
#TonightVMTV
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The B117 'British' strain has acquired the mutations seen in the 'Brazilian' & 'South-African' strains. Normal convergent evolution.
Need for:
- Travel quarantine (keep it out)
- Get case numbers down low (less virus, less mutation)
- Maintain above until population vaccination
First results (yes, really!) on what
#b117
+ E484K might mean from
@GuptaR_lab
:
„Introduction of the E484K mutation in a B.1.1.7 background to reflect newly emerging viruses in the UK led to a more substantial loss of neutralizing activity by vaccine-elicited antibodies“
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Which option is less expensive?
1. Person gets COVID. Admitted to hospital. Displaces non-COVID patients. Receives ICU attention. Dies. Loss to economy & family.
2. Person prevented from being infected through policy of non-pharmaceutical interventions & vaccination.
🤔
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It's not too late to stop this madness. Child vaccination is around the corner. Until then we need proper masking, HEPA filters in classrooms, serial saliva testing, & restored contact tracing. The alternative is rising child hospitalizations & Long-COVID.
#COVIDisAirborne
Case growth is slowing overall (largely due to 15-24/testing capacity), with primary age group & their parents age group now both highest prevalence & faster growth rate. At these rates, virtually all 5-14 year olds are on course to be infected by Christmas/mid Jan
@ClionaNi
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This was very predictable as the UK hit 1,000 child hospitalizations per month, months ago.
Ireland is now hitting over 100 child hospitalizations per month. Yet, the Government refuse both HEPA filters & contact tracing in schools - because of advice that is *flat earth wrong*
Children now form 32.1% of all cases of Covid-19 and 10.3% of all hospital admissions for Covid-19.
54 children with Covid-19 were hospitalised in the past 14 days:
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@McConnellDaniel
We had almost no virus last summer, as we eliminated the 1st wave. This summer we opened with 300 - 400 cases per day of more transmissable Alpha variant. Now the even more transmissible Delta variant is taking over. About half the population is unprotected. The risk is obvious.
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Did a government medical advisor just say on national radio that it's okay to remove mitigation measures in schools, because the 75 % of children that are unvaccinated will pick up immunity by infection or already have done?
@RadioBrendanRTE
#Brendan
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"Waiting for a vaccine (alone) is irresponsible and possibly even negligent" -
@aoifemcl
discussing our continued importation of new SARS-CoV-2 variants and inadequate plans.
WATCH: Prominent TCD scientist
@aoifemcl
says virus mutations and variants still present a huge threat and we must not rely solely on vaccines as a strategy.
#TonightVMTV
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How can I exercise "personal responsibility" if I am not informed of my children being exposed to COVID?
@paulreiddublin
@CcoHse
HSE plays down concerns about change to Covid-19 checks on children
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@PatLeahyIT
Sorry Pat, that's not true. Public opinion was very clear from multiple sources of data to be vastly in support of public health restrictions.
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Many congratulations to the singular
@SarahDPower
on submitting her PhD thesis to
@tcddublin
.
My first student - an important and proud day for the whole lab. Her work has been consistently daring and rigourous. I can't wait to see what she does next.
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This is crazy.
"It does seem at the moment, that school is probably
a safer place for them to be than the community."
@CillianDeGascun
on the return to school.
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#OnthisDay
2020
This
Our government have not been proactive enough - why did
@SimonHarrisTD
mislead us about travel not being restricted based on best evidence?
Why is the man nobody has confidence in in charge of a major health crisis?
Is the advice to government robust?
#cblive
#COVID2019
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Alarming figures and winter has yet to fully set in. We need government recognition of the importance of air hygiene; as well proper mitigation measures in schools, improved mask wearing, more testing, vaccine boosters/certification, and much clearer leadership & communication.
🦠
#COVID19ireland
3726 cases reported today
Key indicators (vs last wk):
🏥 Hospital: 493 (513)
ICU: 90 (97)
📈 5d avg: 2812 (2131)
📈 7d avg: 2614 (2119)
📆 14d incidence: 696/100k (588)
💉 Vaccination:
½: 3809915 (91.2% of 12+)
✅: 3747419 (89.7%)
@VirginMediaNews
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The Cognitive Neurosciences (6th edition,
@mitpress
) is out now. Very pleased to have contributed as Editor of the Memory section along with
@CharanRanganath
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Schrodinger at 75 : The Future of Biology
@tcddublin
has concluded. Many thanks to everyone who helped make it a success. The talks will be published online after editing soon.
#whatislife75
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@MarkPaulTimes
@IrishTimes
Sorry Mark this is bordering on propaganda. The poll had a false comparison for the 'zero covid' question. And the 'option 2' in that question is not on the table according to the Government strategy' and according to NPHET.
@PatLeahyIT
Hugely misleading headline Pat, and a strange false comparison embedded in the ZeroCovid question:
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@MarkPaulTimes
I was describing sins of omission. I learned to watch out for that in biased journalism. In secondary school.
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We can't wait for Tuesday (and then Wednesday). We need to change what we're doing right now.
#COVID19ireland
:
764 cases; 4 deaths
Previous Sundays:
13/12: 429
06/12: 301
29/11: 299
22/11: 318
15/11: 378
5-day average: 557.6
7-day average: 483
(Previous 7 days: 283.4)
14-day cases/100k: 112.2
(7 days ago: 84.7)
In hospital: 233
In ICU: 29
@VirginMediaNews
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Why do we forget?
In this review, we propose that many kinds of forgetting may represent adaptive forms of engram cell plasticity that allow us to alter our behavior in a changing world.
Joint article with
@Franklandlab
out now in
@NatRevNeurosci
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Negatives tests are not sufficient due to incubation cycles. People can transmit the virus after vaccination. Vaccine escape variants exist and are a growing risk as new ones evolve. That's the beginning of the story.
This is insane. There will be interminable quarantine with no exit, ever, if this nonsense continues. Vaccine + negative test should allow free movement. End of story.
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Our new study out now:
"Engram cell connectivity as a mechanism for information encoding and memory function"
- by Postdoctoral Researcher
@Clrar
at
@tcddublin
#engram
#memory
@CurrentBiology
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'We need a strategy to get out of lockdown, criteria, not just that we are exhausted...'
@aoifemcl
on the need for a clear exit plan and targets
#TonightVMTV
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Our new paper is out now:
"Immune activation state modulates infant engram expression across development" - by
@SarahDPower
& team in
@RyanLabTCD
at
@tcddublin
#engram
#forgetting
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Smallpox (R0 3.5 - 6): eradicated globally.
Measles (R0 12 - 18): eliminated from Ireland & USA.
Covid19 (R0 2.7 - 6): TBD
It's a political choice. Science is not a barrier here.
Dr
@CillianDeGascun
"The nature of the virus, and the nature of the way it's circulating, it is going to become endemic. We haven't eradicated any pure respiratory viruses in the past..."
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@AodhanORiordain
Please start advocating for serious mitigation measures in schools. Not half measures.
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Excellent move by
@JoeBiden
&
@KamalaHarris
to appoint a cabinet level science advisor.
Can we please have a dedicated Minister for Science,
@MichealMartinTD
?
Under the current circumstances, it could prove useful - maybe....
Humbled and excited to serve as WH science advisor for President-elect
@JoeBiden
. He has assembled a diverse team of brilliant scientists and is elevating the role of science. So much to be done, and it will take everyone working together.
#Scienceisback
!
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This is *not* a low level of SARS-CoV-2 positivity for a mass testing scenario.
Dr Colm Henry says have been ‘remarkably low’ COVID-19 positivity rates in schools where mass testing has been carried out.
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Passengers from 33 X travel origins will have have to quarantine for 10 days in the UK hotels from February 15th.
Ireland will be forced to follow suit as part of common travel area. Then, may as well do so for all travel origins as recommended by
@CMOIreland
&
@ISAGCOVID19
.
What's another few days? After delaying a year already.... // UK minister defends delay over Covid quarantine hotels | World news | The Guardian -
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COVID cases are rising most quickly in 5 - 14 year olds in Ireland, despite the fact that we are no longer contacting tracing in schools.
We urgently need proper mitigation measures *in schools*: masks, HEPA filters, serial saliva testing.
@ronan_glynn
Cut down on your children’s activity levels, parents told as Covid cases rise
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Finland 🇫🇮 has suffered 969 COVID deaths in the entire pandemic.
Norway 🇳🇴 has had 794.
Ireland 🇮🇪 is anticipating 500 - 1,200 future acceptable deaths, even though half the population is vaccinated.
Today, we reached 5,000 deaths so far.
Analysis: A death toll of between 545 and 1,230 due to increased socialising and the impact of the Delta variant is considered more likely than the 2,170 fatalities projected by Nphet in a worst-case scenario.
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This article is 2 months old, but we're in the thick of it now. In Ireland, we've ignored the science of risk to children, & best advice from
@ECDC_EU
&
@CDCgov
. Now, we have surging COVID cases in all age groups but no real mitigations in schools. Let's change this immediately.
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@FergalBowers
Have you ever asked
@CMOIreland
why the NPHET position on COVID and children/schools is completely the opposite of the
@CDCgov
? If not, can you please ask that question? Including sensible follow-up questions.
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Why we need to follow New Zealand's example and aim to eliminate
#COVID19
from Ireland.
It can be done.
#COVID19
#COVID19Ireland
@astaines
@killeen_gerry
@otuathail
Scientists urge Irish government to 'crush' coronavirus before vaccine available |
@Jessjcasey
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@adriancummins
With respect, this is the outcome you have been lobbying for, for the past 20 months.
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This is an immensely positive development from
@labour
Very interested to hear
@MaryLouMcDonald
discuss the
@sinnfeinireland
perspective on how we can develop a new strategy for the agressive suppression of SARS-CoV-2 with a target of
#ZeroCovid
#ReturntoNormal
@ISAGCOVID19
Today on
@rtetwip
@DuncanSmithTD
has said it is never too late to save lives and the government need to implement as many elements of
#ZeroCovid
as possible
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Last year we made a major mistake in the Christmas reopening. We made it far, far worse by chosing not to respond immediately.
Uncertainty does not call for a "wait and see" approach. It requires a risk management strategy based on regret minimisation. Act now.
Delays in decisions cost lives. Actions taking when advised on Dec 18 2020 instead delayed to Dec 27 cost ~2000 lives via the ~150,000 additional cases generated by that delay.
@DonnellyStephen
@MichealMartinTD
Don't repeat the same mistakes again.
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I would like to ask
@MichealMartinTD
how many deaths he would have considered 'acceptable' in the 3rd wave?
He says "advice at the time was move to Level 3. There was no modelling for what subsequently happened. That’s just a fact. People didn’t see it coming"
That is false.
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This is nonsense.
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For all the non-scientists,
@ScienceMagazine
is one of the most prestigious & rigorous research journals in the world.
With
@EMA_News
approval imminent, we need to start vaccinating children in Ireland *next week*, not January. Every day counts.
@KarinaButler15
@muirtheimhne
"Almost 700 children have died from
#COVID19
, placing
#SARSCoV2
infection among the top 10 causes of death in US children. No children have died from vaccination."
Read a new
#ScienceEditorial
by Jeffrey S. Gerber &
@DrPaulOffit
of
@ChildrensPhila
:
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@newschambers
Will the epidemiological modelling team be disbanded also? Who will assess the rate of transmission in schools?
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@MarkPaulTimes
I read it, Mark. You seem to have forgotten that COVID is not an unavoidable disease that requires excessive interventional medicine. It's a preventable disease that can be managed with scientifically informed and well executed policy decisions.
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By any reasonable assessment of international evidence, & infection numbers in Ireland, it seems likely most children will be exposed to the Delta variant in coming months *unless* mitigation measures are used in schools.
Am I missing something?
@DonnellyStephen
@NormaFoleyTD1
The CDC projects that without masking or testing, ~75% of kids under 12 could be infected with COVID-19 within three months.
Parents have been left in the dark with regards to when young kids will be able to get vaccinated. They deserve some answers.
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A lot of rain this past year. But pandemics end. Double rainbow 🌈's over Killiney Bay tonight. Let's finish this quickly, scientifically, & safely.
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@fionnansheahan
@fmcomment
Count the deaths. Count the days in lockdown. Count the days in restrictions. Which one did we do better in?
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Most European countries didn't handle the pandemic well. Some did
Deaths per million:
(New Zealand)- 5
(Australia)- 36
Iceland- 85
Norway- 148
Finland- 176
Denmark- 435
(Canada)- 696
Netherlands- 1007
Ireland- 1010
N. Ireland- 1143
Sweden- 1421
France- 1624
(USA)- 1829
UK- 1912
On public health advice.
We get the advice. We can ignore the advice. We can moderate the advice or we can implement the advice. But by and large, we've come through Covid relatively well relative to other countries.
@MichealMartinTD
#TheBigInterview
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We're getting more frustrated alight.
But nevertheless, 82 % of people think the pandemic response is either appropriate or insufficient. 88 % believe the social distancing measures are about right or insufficient.
Time for the government to start delivering for the public?
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Dose 2 done at
@ucddublin
.
Vaccination is great. Vaccination & low virus incidence is far better. Infection without vaccination is not okay.
I really hope we protect children as long as infections are high and they're not vaccinated.
Also science is good. More science please.
Just got my first jab. Many thanks to the excellent health care staff here at
@ucddublin
. Fantastic operation from
@HSELive
&
@salesforce
. Special thanks to countless unnamed and under-resourced scientists who's research allowed these vaccines to be created.
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🇮🇪 - 250 acceptable deaths under the most optimistic predictions, after half the population is vaccinated
🇳🇿 - 26 unacceptable deaths in entire pandemic
We're doing it wrong.
.
@rtenews
The Department of Health has confirmed that there was an error in the one of the graphics in the letter from the CMO to the Health Minister. The correct figure for the projected number of deaths under the optimistic scenario is 250, not 165.
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Our latest work on engram expression during natural forgetting. We show that normal forgetting is reversible, & suggest that forgetting may be adaptive to the environment.
By
@jamesoleary
at
@tcddublin
in collaboration with
@rasmusbruckner
at
@FU_Berlin
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Clear & sober perspective from
@aoifemcl
in
@IrishTimes
. People have done everything they can, unlike the government.
We can live with the virus? This is dangerous wishful thinking
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@IrishTimes
It would have been appropriate to point out that Dr. Morrisey comments on COVID and risk to children are based on falsehoods. The risk to the child population is significant *when* there is a large number of infections.
@RMcGreevy1301
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New
@RyanLabTCD
paper out now:
"Adaptive expression of engrams by retroactive interference"
- by
@liviautore
at
@tcddublin
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History was made in Dublin today.
Many deserved congratulations to
@LindaDoyle
& her campaign team on being elected the first female Provost/President of
@tcddublin
.
Much respect to
@janeohlmeyer
&
@LindaHoganTCD
on brilliant campaigns.
#TCDProvost2021
#EmpoweringTrinity
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If engrams are the answer, what is the question? New paper by
@fmosullivan
at
@tcddublin
.
via
@OSFramework
@RyanLabTCD
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Recruiting call for a new Lab Manager/Research Assistant position in our team at
@tcddublin
. We offer a collaborative and dynamic research environment, with a focus on individual development. Applications considered until July 31st.
#memory
#engram
@ERC_Research
@scienceirel
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