アイルランド（Ireland 🇮🇪）： 'remarkable' vaccine benefit
２０２１年６月１１日（Fri.）15:00UP ： アイルランドのニュースですが、COVID19に関するワクチン効果が顕著であると専門家が評しています。日本でも効果が感じられるレベルにまで接種が進むことを願っています。しかし、仮に効果が現れたとしても、世界各国からの大会関係者を日本国内に呼び入れてしまうことは、その効果（成果）を相殺して余りある事態を招いてしまう恐れが高いと思います。そして、それでも五輪を強行するならば、悪化兆候を検出した時点で中止することを予め関係者で“決定“しておくことを求めます。（ニュースソース： RTE ６月１０日発 ）
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Reid hails 'remarkable' vaccine benefit as Covid patients fall to 59
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The number of Covid patients in hospitals is at its lowest since 13 September, 2020
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The number of patients with Covid-19 in hospitals is down to 59, according to the Health Service Executive. This is the lowest number in almost nine months.
At the peak of the "third wave" of the disease on 18 January last, there were 2,020 people being treated in hospital with coronavirus.
HSE Chief Executive, Paul Reid, said the reduction in numbers was a "remarkable benefit of our strong vaccination programme" and public support overall.
In a post on Twitter he noted: "Covid-10 patients continues an amazing decline. Down to 59 cases with 23 of those in ICU."
This is the lowest number of people with the disease in hospital since 13 September, 2020, when there were 54 Covid in-patients.
Earlier, the Department of Health was notified of a further 398 cases of Covid-19. This was a reduction of four since yesterday in the number of people in ICU with the disease, bringing the total to 23.
In a separate thread on Twitter, Professor Philip Nolan, who chairs the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said that "we are continuing to see an improvement" in the situation with Covid-19 in Ireland.
He said that the daily case numbers, numbers in hospital and the number of patients in ICU is decreasing.
In the past fortnight, there have been nine admissions to intensive care, he said.
Prof Nolan described the incidence of the disease in Limerick as "very high", but said that public health interventions appear to be bringing the situation "under control". Case counts are declining in the rest of the country, including in Dublin, he said.
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He said: "The vaccination programme is having a very clear impact." He pointed to an incidence of less than 10 cases per 100,000 people per week in the vaccinated age groups as encouraging going forward.
"Incidence is now starting to fall in those aged 55-64 years as their vaccinations take effect, and the recent increase in incidence in those aged 19-24 may be stabilizing. We are doing really well.
"If we follow public health advice (self-isolate & get a test if symptomatic, meet outdoors, avoid crowded spaces, distance, masks, hygiene, ventilation) while we protect the wider population by vaccination, we can contain and then suppress the disease in the coming weeks."
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ところで、日本国内でのワクチン接種は順調に広がっているのでしょうか。“職域接種“とやらも進展中のようですが、多くの中小企業が置き去りになっていませんか。例えば、工業団地として接種を取りまとめるとかも方法論の一つでしょう。
また思うに、これほどまでに大規模な体制を組まなければならない事由は、ワクチンが注射による接種方式である為でしょう。ワクチン開発で後塵を排した日本は、ここで世界に貢献する為にも、注射方式ではなく、“飲む“か、“貼る“か、“座薬“方式等による接種方式を開発すれば大転換を招くことが出来るでしょう。接種会場など全く不要になります。
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