Coronavirus 4 - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[What'sinaname]

and here we are

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/vict ... 59p2u.html

and now I hear a story of someone who called an ambulance claiming they were having heart / chest pain, only to get rushed to ED with prioritized treatment, to then tell the doctors & nurses they didn't really have chest pain, they just needed a PCR and wanted it to be done / get it back quickly!



I can't fathom the selfishness of some people!

In that case, neither Ambulance Vic nor PHI would pay for the ambulance, so that PCR might cost them about $6k.

[think positive]

Good, they should get charged too

[eddiesmith]

Whilst the WA results may seem like the gold standard, in reality it simply couldn’t work in any of the Eastern seaboard states, it only works in a place completely isolated and happy to remain completely isolated.

[stui magpie]

Fortress WA is only the gold standard if you're happy to keep families separated for years. The Eastern states all did it in variations but it's more difficult to manage with cross border communities, WA can behave like an Island but even Tassie is open fo r business before them.

McGowan is preparing tent cities outside Emergency Departments in anticipation of his broken public health system being overwhelmed within 3 days of Omicron arriving.

[What'sinaname]

Whilst the WA results may seem like the gold standard, in reality it simply couldn’t work in any of the Eastern seaboard states, it only works in a place completely isolated and happy to remain completely isolated.

I know of no one who wishes they were like WA.

[Pies4shaw]

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[Pies4shaw]

Reported in NSW today:

- 2,863 hospitalisations
- 217 people in ICU
- 32 deaths

[Pies4shaw]

And reported in Victoria today:

Hospital: 1,173
ICU: 125
Ventilated: 42
Deaths: 18

[think positive]

but but but, its nothing its broken arms clogging the system, i gotta say i thought it was rare to die of a broken arm, youd have to have a lot of people smacking that vein whatever its called!

[Dave The Man]

And reported in Victoria today:

Hospital: 1,173
ICU: 125
Ventilated: 42
Deaths: 18

Good to see Cases numbers coming back down

[What'sinaname]

And reported in Victoria today:

Hospital: 1,173
ICU: 125
Ventilated: 42
Deaths: 18

Good to see Cases numbers coming back down

Today Victoria recorded 21 new hospitalisations, 2 fewer people in ICU, 1 less person requiring ventilation, 18 deaths and 14,895 recoveries.

[stui magpie]

And reported in Victoria today:

Hospital: 1,173
ICU: 125
Ventilated: 42
Deaths: 18

Good to see Cases numbers coming back down

Hospitalisations appears to have slowed if not quite plateaued yet. Daily numbers in hospital, ICU and Ventilated over the past almost month

Date Hospital ICU Vent
25/12/2021 361 71 42
1/1/2022 451 51 21
8/1/2022 731 109 22
15/1/2022 1054 115 30
Today 1173 125 42

[Pies4shaw]

And there have been 11 further deaths reported in Queensland and 7 further deaths in South Australia.

So, that means there have been a total of 2,843 deaths from COVID reported in Australia since the beginning of the pandemic. Of those:

- half have been reported since 9 October 2021;

- a third have been reported since 16 November 2021; and

- a quarter have been reported in about the last month.

378 people dead of COVID in the last 7 days - and well over 200 dead in the last 4 days. These are sustained record-highs for the pandemic in Australia, as are the number of hospitalizations (5,298) and people admitted to ICU (425).

[What'sinaname]

Daily active cases on the way down too, so looks like we have more people recovering than new people catching COVID. Active cases are down from 830,000 on Jan 16 to 695,000 today

[Pies4shaw]

The NSW CHO has provided some vaccination status information about the 32 people who died there in the previous 24 hours. 8 were unvaccinated, 1 had had a single dose, 23 were double-vaccinated and 5 had been both double-vaccinated and had their booster. So, that's 75% of the dead in the last 24 hours who had been vaccinated - almost all of those fully-vaccinated.