Study shows higher Covid infection rate in health staff

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An antibody study at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin has found evidence that more staff were infected with Covid-19 than actually tested positive for the virus

Nurses, doctors, hospital porters; they are frontline in this pandemic. Nearly 1 in 5 of all Covid-19 cases in Ireland has been in healthcare workers.

A third of the hospital took part in the study, including nurses, doctors, and clerical staff. The antibody blood tests were carried out over three months. "We can look at them going forward to see what happens to them, in terms of reinfection rates and re-exposure rates, and see do those antibodies wane."

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation said it was worried by the findings of the Tallaght Hospital study. "A healthcare worker should be treated the same as any other member of the public, follow the public health advice, self isolate and retrict their movements for 14 days. That should apply to healthcare workers as well."

 

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Not a single death out of these thousands upon thousands of infections. Not the bubonic plague. Probably closer to the flu and We've bankrupted Ourselves over it.

So seems to no need a vaccine if body already produce antibodies without any help

RTÉ with the groundbreaking journalism as always.

And it needed a study to find out that ?

No shit Batman.

Indeed. Who knew?

In other news, water is wet

Everyone knows its around since last December, most of the population has had it and recovered just fine, pcr test is picking up historical infections and flu,

Up to 80% of cases are asymptomatic, or have very light symptoms, so these findings aren't surprising at all.

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