There is a general acceptance hyperbolic headlines will command more attention than mundane truths. But there is nothing either exaggerated or mundane about the announcement that we have the highest daily number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the world.
Our seven-day average is 1,394 cases per million – higher than the UK (810) and the USA (653).
This is a dire picture no-one wanted to see. Our hospitals will soon be overwhelmed.
Head of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, Prof Alan Irvine, has warned: “The acute hospital system is under the greatest pressure that it’s ever been in living memory. This is truly a national emergency in our acute hospitals.”