It did happen, Black Rock Cafe. We dealt with that quite well.
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Itâs pretty clear weâve learned from our errors.
What occurred in Berala was in no way the same as our HQ issue in May / June. We were so far behind the spread of the virus it wasnât funny.
It spread for almost 4 weeks before we realised how far it had gone (Keilor Downs family cluster was late May and we only realised how crazy it was in the west until the tower lockdown).
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This is standard protocol for any NEW pharmaceutical or biological. Conditional approval confers on the sponsor the responsibility of continued surveillance of the product in the field. It is referred to as Post Marketing Surveillance or Clinical Trial Phase IV.
Vaccination, by definition is an immunity enhancer. Antigens, which mimic the actual infection and are themselves NOT disease producing, when injected into the body stimulate the production of antibodies. That is the immune process. Some vaccines require a booster to further enhance and/or stabilise immunity.
The moderation or elimination of the short/long term effects of infection is itself an immune response.
I find it interesting that I havenât seen any clinically proven reports worldwide where a significant number of people have been diagnosed with having had Covid twice. That is a significant âclinical trialâ in itself.
Yep. Horse had well and truly bolted before the gate was closed. Mind you, NSW was teetering for sure. If it was the dead of winter Iâm not sure theyâd have pulled it up like they have.
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Yeah.
But the dead of winter pretty much is the equal of it popping up around xmas and NYE.
I agree though. They were fearful of it (and all the other unknown infections).
They still have 7 cases under investigation that are genomically linked. They are just unwilling to write them off as unknown infections.
Yes and no. big functions at Xmas time obviously but everyone is outside, especially in Sydney. Huge saving grace that one.
These unlinked cases will no doubt keep the QLD border closed unfortunately as they seem unwilling to deviate from their protocols.
Hopefully SA gets its act together and opens up to Sydney ASAP also
NSW zero local, 2 OS
7.9k tests
49 active cases
Test numbers are low
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NSW numbers almost always are. The Northern Beaches the only exception.
From the family who built an international airport in nineteen months
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Why then have they had the most tests in the whole county?
Per capita? Far from it.
Thatâs just one more advantage we have in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas and NYE are in the middle of our Summer. Europe and US both have had to battle the spread of a virus while people are grouped indoors with recirculated air, and then added the 2 super spreader events to Winter - 3 for US with Thanksgiving.
I can see there being a big market in the next decade or more for UV sterilisers being built into recirculated air conditioners, as well as heat exchangers being used to cycle fresh air from outdoors without losing all the heat/cool from inside.
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What are our per capita figures?
Suggest that the only true comparisons are the âvoluntaryâ tests, excluding HQ and compulsory workplace testing.
Iâm not sure that NSW provided incentives to testing in the community to the extent that Victoria did in the casualised sector.
The Commonwealth definition of hotspots enabled Commonwealth assistance in that regard, according NSW emergency status ( which NSW has not declared);
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Test comparisons are hard in general. Anyway, hospital numbers have been pretty low in NSW and no deaths from any recent infections.
Weâre doing really good as a country and that is excellent.
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NSW would have stats as to the known primary and secondary close contacts tested in the recent clusters.
Based on the urgings to get daily tests up over the 20k mark, there is not a high degree of certainty as to the potential numbers of those infected in the community.
However, figures of cases in the community are encouraging.
SA actually has one of the best per capita testing rates. Victoria and NSW would have the highest rates due to large outbreaks. QLD and WA would be at the other end and possibly the lowest rates. NT would be low but slightly higher than expected due to their HQ program
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The Commonwealth Covid Health site has comparative data on a per capita basis.
On the basis of tests per 100k of population in the last 7 days, NSW is below the national average.
- NT has highest rate,followed by Victoria and SA
- NSW comes in fourth.