It was awkward. But now, in the spring of 2020, Something Else about the trailblazing biography of irelands young Prime Minister has been brought to the fore because this week he has gone back to work as a doctor. The Prime Minister of ireland went to medical school and worked as a doctor, as a general practice physician in ireland for seven years, before he left the medical role and went into politics. Now as ireland confronts its coronavirus epidemic, theyre currently over 6,000 cases and over 200 deaths, the Prime Minister himself has reregistered on the medical roles with irelands Health Service, and he is now spending one day a week working as a doctor, assessing suspected coronavirus patients in ireland, while he still works as Prime Minister. Ireland last month asked Health Professionals of all kinds who were not currently working in the countrys Health Service to please sign up and join the fight. The Prime Minister himself is now among them. And that kind of volunteerism, amon
Capacity. In new york, where a great number of First Responders have fallen victim to coronavirus, it is likely to get worse. The sick leave for fdny ems is 20, 25 . Thats people who have contracted the virus and are out sick. We have two members who are intubated. We have about seven or eight members who are in the icu and a whole bunch in quarantine. Roughly about 700 people in the Fire Department are being monitored for this. Its a serious virus and were on the front lines battling it. The numbers today as staggering as yesterday. Close to 14,000 americans are now dead from this. We have reporters on both coasts covering these developments. First off lets go to nbcs ron allen. Hes in brooklyn, new york. Ron, i know youve traveled due west from where we last saw you, nassau county, long island. What have you found. Rsh brian, theres a lot in those numbers. What theyre focusing on is the rate of hospitalizations thats flattening, not going up as fast as it was. It seems to be leveling