Talk:COVID-19 vaccination in the Republic of Ireland

Graph ideas and issues
I don't think this graph is a good idea, as it looks confusing and hard to read/understand. The first doses are fine but the second doses are a bit of a mess to be honest.... Edl-irishboy (talk) 16:05, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * How many doses are administrated each day Total & 2nd Dose. Can see how many doses day by day over time and the split of 1st/2nd dose. Think its quite useful to see we are doing less some days this week than last & the mix of 1st 2nd dose by day going down last week (giving less 2nd dose now - only 16 2nd doses yday!). Thought it was interesting/useful (especially with vaccine supply/rollout issues). Is this not what you wanted with dose per day discussion? Spent a bit of time working out daily changes & making this... .. UPDATE: OK may be a problem here with doses adding up (need to subtract 2nd dose from 1st dose increase). Here just daily till i figure out

Might be better/clearer without show values text on bars

or 2 bars with values text


 * Ya now it looks better. I prefer the last graph (2 bars with values text). How is this graph calculated? Do we subtract the latest dose increase by the previous day's increase? Because I think today's first dose figure on the last graph should be 3,999... shouldn't it? Graphs look good now. However, if agreed on last graph, that graph will be cramped very quickly I think. Edl-irishboy (talk) 19:15, 15 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Last one is Total & 2nd dose (not total minus second dose) because they are not stacked. Think this one will get very cluttered very quickly (remember median age chart we had for a while?):

Think there's equivalent to less than 2 months of days here. Think this one (below) might be the best/clearest with most room for a lot days going forward:

...& this one also shows what proportion of total doses are 2nd dose a bit clearer (albeit without numbers). Can make it wider (700px) when days get cramped. How about this until get too cramped

...then can make them both 700 on their own line when get full up

Ok. I think I understand the graph now. Let me get this straight, I assume this graph (below) is latest dose minus previous day's dose? I will add this graph to the page. I have just revamped, updated figures and changed the colours and title of the graph. Edl-irishboy (talk) 14:24, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Revamped graph:


 * Yeah. Implemented with original colours to differentiate from other graphs on page. 51.171.197.22 (talk) 15:07, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Can we change the colours of it? Not gonna lie the colours are a bit too bright for my liking... I just changed the layout of the vaccine stats in the infobox on the main COVID page just to let you know. We can't have anymore stats/details on the vaccines on the infobox of the main page as it's gonna be a bit too much soon. Edl-irishboy (talk) 15:19, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Kinda like the bright colours but. Had it as pink+blue but realised that lookded a bit like male+female. Yeah see what you did wih the 1st dose 2nd dose in main page infobox. Good work. Is the any way we can get date with these i had short date (ie 13 Feb) somewhere. How about:


 * Vaccination(s?): 268,551 (13Feb)


 * 1st Dose: 176,926


 * 2nd Dose: 91,625

BTW: How do you feel about removing/tidy up some of the old photos in main page infobox. Maybe just leave 1 or 2 (empty motorway perhaps). The shaving foam on outside of shop is particularly messy hard to see in thumbnail... and feel like they imprinted in my brain after looking at them everyday for months ;)
 * Done. I added a date on infobox for vaccines and I changed up the pics as well. Edl-irishboy (talk) 18:53, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

The first dose figures (blue line) on the weekly graph were incorrect as the blue line showed the total number of doses/vaccines administered, even though the legend at the bottom of the graph shows that blue is first dose and the green is second dose. Yesterday, I noticed this issue and that the first dose figures were wrong and incorrect. I therefore fixed it changing all the first dose figures to the actual figures - and not total doses/vaccines administered. I noticed that now the graph is changed to thousands (I'm not complaining about it) and I had to change the first dose figures again. No worries. The weekly graph should be looking like this:

The title of the weekly graph on the main COVID page says "Total doses & 2nd dose" - which makes sense to put the blue line as total doses administered. But for this vaccine page, the blue line should be total first doses and not total doses administered. I hope this makes sense. Edl-irishboy (talk) 14:28, 21 February 2021 (UTC)


 * OK sure. I see what you mean. Looks a bit wonky tho. Seems crazy that 2nd dose wss growing quicker than 1st. Do you think we should change it to the same as the one on main page (total & 2nd)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.171.196.77 (talk) 23:01, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I think we should leave it like that in my opinion. I know it looks a bit wonky but thats how it is...I guess.... The graph doesn't have to be the same as the main page. Edl-irishboy (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * OK. Any reason why update went from 17th to 27th (instead of 24th)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.171.196.29 (talk) 18:56, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh sugar, I'm sorry for that. My mistake. I changed it to 24th. Edl-irishboy (talk) 19:36, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Just added in 29th to vaccine graphs as we know started that day with Annie lynch (& presumable at least a few vials more) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.171.196.29 (talk) 20:49, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

3 vaccine centres in ulster
Hey Isent their 3 vaccine centres in ulster 1 in Cavan Monaghan and donegal. Dont know how you have grouped them but it say 1 in ulster atm

(Tbf i did have to google counties in ulster) Bpb101 (talk) 14:03, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Also. What do they yellow red and orange dots mean? Bpb101 (talk) 14:04, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Nice article btw. Great work Bpb101 (talk) 14:05, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Ok i actually thought there was only one in Ulster! I'll fix that. Idk if the map is confusing or not. The red dots mean there's one in that county. Yellow means two in that county and orange means more than two. Edl-irishboy (talk) 22:58, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Clarification
Can somebody explain this figure below * Afaik its something like 6%. Are we miscalculating by saying [total does/total adult population] It should be only [first does/adult(or total population)]

9.38% of the Irish population has received a COVID-19 vaccine[i] Bpb101 (talk) 09:24, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Outcome
 * Sorry for that. I added that figure in. I'm a bit stuck on how to calculate "% of population" still. A few hours ago, I have changed it to "% population who has received at least one dose of vaccine". I think the way to calculate it is: First dose total divided by Irish population (based on 2016 census) and multiplied by 100 – to make it as a percentage. Edl-irishboy (talk) 15:14, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * This is why using doses per 100 people is probably best. Otherwise will end up with more than 100% of pop vaccinated: 125% 150% 200%? which is obviously not possible. With a seperate breakdown of 1st & 2nd doses. Will probably change again when other 1 dose vaccines comes on stream (like Janssen J&J). Think we should focus on 'Total Doses Administered' & 'Doses per 100 people' with 2nd dose note in brackets or whatever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.44.84.181 (talk) 17:55, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

OK done a bit of a tidy up

% of population
Hello. Just a quick heads up that I have changed the "doses per 100 people" to "% of population". If you look at Template:COVID-19 vaccination data, you'll see that each country has a % which is categorised as "% of population". In relation to the vaccines table, I have revamped and tweaked the table to add the % of population for first doses and second doses. Formula of calculating % of population: First dose total ÷ 4.9 = the answer for first dose. Second dose total ÷ 4.9 = the answer for second dose. N.B., the population of Ireland is according to Our World in Data's population which is approximately at 4.9 when calculating the % of population. Or if you don't want to calculate the percentages, just simply use Our World in Data's figures which is published daily on Google results if you search up "Covid-19 vaccine ireland". Edl-irishboy (talk) 14:37, 7 March 2021 (UTC) Here is the revamped and implemented table(s):

Vaccines numbers daily updates catching up
7th & 8th number reported in 1 day hence +56,377 number. This is actually 2 days as we try to catch up to daily updates only one day behind by monday: "HSE CEO says from next Monday you’ll be able to see the number of vaccines administered from the previous 24 hours - on a daily basis." (https://twitter.com/ZaraKing/status/1380150292432437255). From gov.ie statement today Latest update on vaccines; "As of last Thursday (8 April) there have been 1,018,264 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland" Numbers by day are (Thursday / 08-04-21)

‣ First dose: 716,636 (+19,268) ‣ Second dose: 301,628 (+9,749) ‣ Total: 1,018,264 (+29,017)

so 7th can be worked out. Daily change figure on main page infobox should probably be +29,017 (dont think we've hit 56k doses day... yet. 51.171.196.92 (talk) 17:27, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Weekly updates on Friday
Hey. Just to clarify, are the weekly updates on statistics changed from Saturday to Friday now? I wasn’t aware / forgot that it changed to Friday...? Edl-irishboy (talk) 22:50, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah the HSE caught up a day (remember when the releases 14&15th on same day? ...so only 2 days behind now (instead of 3) so weekly update will be on friday from now on. Unless we can catch up another day which i thought they said they were going to try to do? Hopefully get there soon. 51.171.196.92 (talk) 17:26, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Can we remove the edit approval for this page so my edits go thru quicker?
Why was this introduced? Was there a lot of vandalism of the page that i missed? Seems to just delay simple typo fixes or updates
 * Yes, there was vandalism on the page a few weeks back. The edit approval protection was introduced to stop vandalism. Edits made by IP users are to be reviewed by an administrator, with an exception to extended-confirmed users and maybe auto-confirmed users (edits automatically submitted)... There should be a note before you publish your edit changes about this protection. Edl-irishboy (talk) 00:20, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Fair enuff. Must have missed the vandalism. Silly sausage anti-vaxxers i suppose? Shame. Thankfully main page seems to have largely escaped ...apart from a few isolated incidents months ago. 51.171.196.92 (talk) 17:25, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Fix xAxis congestion?
These getting very congested/messy/hard to read:

I'll try and sort this one tomorrow:


 * Hi, just to let you know, I already added a section on this on this talk page - "Future replacement graphs"......But it's fine I guess. We can just talk about this issue on this section. Ya the graphs are getting very messy and is getting hard to read. Good on you for giving the graph a new look. I like the new concept design. Edl-irishboy (talk) 12:52, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * OK cool. I've just done a slight re-jig now the format of graphs has been changed because labels not fiting/getting messy. Got them both on one line now (similar to main page):

Waiting approval but should go thru fairly soon... 51.171.197.46 (talk) 16:07, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Future replacement graphs
Hi. It may be a bit early but I'm adding this section in advance. The first two graphs on the 'Progress to date' section are getting more cramped as figures are being added daily. As this goes on, we may need to replace the graphs. I'm thinking of replacing the graphs with the same graph style from the Main COVID-19 page's 'Statistics' section. Edl-irishboy (talk) 13:02, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry only seeing this now. See above 51.171.197.46 (talk) 16:08, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

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Vaccinations
Are the vaccinations senseless or why are the hospitalized and death figures so high? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.185.45.235 (talk) 11:37, 7 November 2021 (UTC)