How common are hospital outbreaks of coronavirus and overall, and how effective have our health care facilities been at containing outbreaks that do occur?!
Yesterday evening, a statement from UHW confirmed "a number of positive covid 19 cases" at the hospital and confirmed that an "outbreak control team" is on site actively managing the situation and implementing all appropriate covid control and management protocols.
On this morning's Deise Today, Maria McCann heard on the latest on UHW from WLR News Editor Julie Smyth while Anthony Staines, Prof of Health Systems at DCU, spoke about how Irish hospitals largely been very successful in their management of such situations to date.
Meanwhile, also on this morning's show...
Independent City and County Councillor Joe Kelly spoke about the proposal for a Waterford 'Walk of Fame'...
Psychotherapist Stella O'Malley reflected on a very interesting court ruling by three High Court judges in the UK that children under 16 with gender dysphoria are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty-blocking drugs.
And...Maria spoke to our resident 'spider man' (!) Dr John Dunbar, from the Ryan Institute's 'Venom Research Lab' in NUI Galway, on some interesting new research from them on both the common house spider and the notorious false widows!
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