Coronavirus 3 - Al Pacino's turn to mumble

[Pies4shaw]

In Victoria there were no new local cases reported and 3 new cases acquired overseas (currently in hotel quarantine). 12,606 test results were received. There are, now, 17 active cases (all acquired overseas).

[eddiesmith]

i don't know how the GP's are getting remunerated for their time, but I thought it had always been clear that the vaccine was free.

Yep, don’t know why anyone would be if the opinion they needed to pay for the vaccine???

[stui magpie]

I'd also dispute that it's taking GP's away from their normal work.

Not all GP's get to distribute the vaccine.

The clinic I go to is one, they have more GP's than consulting rooms so they tend to rotate, open 8am to 8pm most weekdays and weekend mornings, Dr's can do shifts that suit them, but they also have a room out back in which a Nurse normally gives flue vaccines. All they have to do is get some of the GP's to pull some extra shifts out the back doing vaccinations, while all of the consulting rooms have GP's treating the normal customers, so no one misses out on seeing their GP.

It's not rocket surgery

[Dave The Man]

I'd also dispute that it's taking GP's away from their normal work.

Not all GP's get to distribute the vaccine.

The clinic I go to is one, they have more GP's than consulting rooms so they tend to rotate, open 8am to 8pm most weekdays and weekend mornings, Dr's can do shifts that suit them, but they also have a room out back in which a Nurse normally gives flue vaccines. All they have to do is get some of the GP's to pull some extra shifts out the back doing vaccinations, while all of the consulting rooms have GP's treating the normal customers, so no one misses out on seeing their GP.

It's not rocket surgery

The GP Surgeries have to get a Tick of Approval before they can give Vaccines.

Lucky mine has given the Okay

Though only do it after hours as they only have enough for about 30 Doses a Day at most but could of Changed as not been there since the 1st of this Month

[stui magpie]

Mum's was at 6:15pm. They may be using the after hours time when they're normally quiet too.

[Pies4shaw]

In Victoria there were no new local cases reported and 2 new cases acquired overseas (currently in hotel quarantine). 13,951 test results were received. There are, now, 19 active cases (all acquired overseas).

[Pies4shaw]

The vaccines seem to be having a substantial effect in the UK, now that a substantial portion of the population has received them. Calculated on a 7-day rolling figure, average daily deaths are down since 23 January from 1,250 to 26 and new cases daily are down since 10 January from a whisker under 60,000 to 2,500.

In the US, the comparable shifts are deaths down from almost 3,500 per day to just under 750 per day and cases down from about 250,000 per day to about 67,000 per day.

To try to provide a local comparison, of sorts, Indiana (population similar to Victoria's) has dropped dramatically, too - but the rates are still higher than we would consider tolerable here, right now - cases down from a December rolling-average peak of nearly 7,000 per day to a little over 1,000 per day and deaths down from a January peak average of more than 100 per day to 9.

[Dark Beanie]

Our doctors has advised that will be getting a small no. of vaccine doses at the end of April and will be vaccinating elderly and most vulnerable patients.

The practice is very well set up with a treatment room where they run the annual flu clinic, take blood for testing etc. They employ a couple of RNs to run the treatment room under supervision of the practice doctors.

One of my sisters has just booked my mum in to get her COVID jab next week. Being done at her local clinic.

[watt price tully]

Our doctors has advised that will be getting a small no. of vaccine doses at the end of April and will be vaccinating elderly and most vulnerable patients.

The practice is very well set up with a treatment room where they run the annual flu clinic, take blood for testing etc. They employ a couple of RNs to run the treatment room under supervision of the practice doctors.

One of my sisters has just booked my mum in to get her COVID jab next week. Being done at her local clinic.

Got an email from the Aged Care Facility Mum is at: they will have theirs (residents) ? If staff too in early May - Pfizer.

[watt price tully]

[Tannin]

i don't know how the GP's are getting remunerated for their time, but I thought it had always been clear that the vaccine was free.

Yep, don’t know why anyone would be if the opinion they needed to pay for the vaccine???

Because it is only available through GPs, and to see a GP you have to pay money. It's not bloody rocket science.

Now if the vaccine is free AND the GP visit you have to have to actually get the vaccine is ALSO free, why hasn't the government communicated this fact more effectively?

(Ans: because they couldn't find their arse with both hands.)

[eddiesmith]

I don’t know what rock you live under, but it’s probably been said over a hundred times by the government that getting the vaccine will not cost you anything, hence the whinging from gps about being out of pocket as they can’t charge you through the roof

[Tannin]

No. What they say is that the VACCINE is free. They don't say "and we will pay for the GP who delivers it", not in any communication I have seen.

[5 from the wing on debut]

https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-a ... y-and-free

Eddie wins this bout by a knockout in the first round.

[Tannin]

^ Nonsense, and you know it. Obscure government web pages that no-one visits are not the point.