EFA
Alright he just quoted Kyle Sandilands in a speech encouraging people to get vaccinated.
Iâm fkn out, swimming to NZ
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Cool Irish accent guy to attend all pressers please.
PM on now
No silver bullets NSW, as for Vics last year
Thank Glad for candour, support by others.
My fellow NS Welshmen, we must work together
Update our 4 point plan
Both vax approved, talk to your doc
National Freight Code being revised, more consistent.Transport Mins to engage with industry and AHPPC
Shipping - something
Payments will keep coming to NSW
Starting today for Vics, next week SA
Discussed capacity for NSW to increase first Pfizer dose, extend to 6 weeks (?) for second, consistent with ATAGI
NatCab agreed that need to lean into AZ
We will support, if potential to put more vax into NSW, but will not be taken from others.
NSW already got 150k additional before.
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Iâm pretty sure it dies at 50,000,000,000°C.
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Travel bubble is closedâŚ
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Not going to make any additional comment, think whatâs in the article speaks for itself.
âIâm sorry, but itâs too lateâ: Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients
Updated Jul 21, 12:19 PM; Posted Jul 21, 7:00 AM
By Dennis Pillion | [email protected]
Dr. Brytney Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine. The vaccinated patient, she said, just needed a little oxygen and is expected to fully recover. Some of the others are dying.
âIâm admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,â wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. âOne of the last things they do before theyâre intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that Iâm sorry, but itâs too late.â
Three COVID-19 vaccines have been widely available in Alabama for months now, yet the state is last in the nation in vaccination rate, with only 33.7 percent of the population fully vaccinated. COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations are surging yet again due to the more contagious Delta variant of the virus and Alabamaâs low vaccination rate.
For the first year and a half of the pandemic, Cobia and hundreds of other Alabama physicians caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients worked themselves to the bone trying to save as many as possible.
âBack in 2020 and early 2021, when the vaccine wasnât available, it was just tragedy after tragedy after tragedy,â Cobia told AL.com this week. âYou know, so many people that did all the right things, and yet still came in, and were critically ill and died.â
In the United States, COVID is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated, according to the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Alabama, state officials report 94% of COVID hospital patients and 96% of Alabamians who have died of COVID since April were not fully vaccinated.
âA few days later when I call time of death,â continued Cobia on Facebook, âI hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.â
âThey cry. And they tell me they didnât know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldnât get as sick. They thought it was âjust the fluâ. But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they canât. So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives.â
More than 11,400 Alabamians have died of COVID so far, but midway through 2021, caring for COVID patients is a different story than it was in the beginning. Cobia said itâs different mentally and emotionally to care for someone who could have prevented their disease but chose not to.
âYou kind of go into it thinking, âOkay, Iâm not going to feel bad for this person, because they make their own choice,ââ Cobia said. âBut then you actually see them, you see them face to face, and it really changes your whole perspective, because theyâre still just a person that thinks that they made the best decision that they could with the information that they have, and all the misinformation thatâs out there.
âAnd now all you really see is their fear and their regret. And even though I may walk into the room thinking, âOkay, this is your fault, you did this to yourself,â when I leave the room, I just see a person thatâs really suffering, and that is so regretful for the choice that they made.â
Cobia said that the strain wears on healthcare workers after the trauma of 2020 and 2021.
âItâs really hard because all of us physicians and other medical staff, weâve been doing this for a long time and all of us are very, at this point, tired and emotionally drained and cynical,â she said.
Cobia said the current wave of Delta patients reminds her of the time in October and November of 2020, just before Alabamaâs peak of coronavirus cases and deaths.
âWhat we saw in December 2020, and January 2021, that was the absolute peak, the height of the pandemic, where I was signing 10 death certificates a day,â she said. âNow, itâs certainly not like that, but itâs very reminiscent of probably October, November of 2020, where we know thereâs a lot of big things coming up.â
Cobia worries that the upcoming school year will lead to a similar surge.
âAll these kids are about to go back to school. No mask mandates are in place at all, 70% of Alabama is unvaccinated. Of course, no kids are vaccinated for the most part because they canât be,â Cobia said. âSo it feels like impending doom, basically.â
Cobia also had a personal experience with the virus, contracting it in July while 27 weeks pregnant with her second child. Her symptoms were mild and the child, Carter, was delivered early out of caution but suffered no serious complications.
Her husband, Miles, is also a physician, and the couple says they were both extremely cautious about wearing protective equipment but one of them still caught the virus and gave it to the other, as well as other family members.
âWe still went to work but we masked 100% of the time,â Cobia said. âWe didnât go anywhere or do anything, we ordered through Shipt for all of our groceries, we did nothing at the time.â
Cobia said she delivered in September without incident and got the vaccine herself in December when it was made available to healthcare workers.
âI did not hesitate to get it,â she said. âThere was a lot unknown at that time, because I was still breastfeeding about whether that was safe or not. I talked to as many other physician colleagues as I could and spoke with my OB as far as data that she had available and decided to continue breastfeeding after vaccination.â
For people who are hesitant to receive the vaccine, Cobia recommends speaking to their primary care physician about their concerns, just as she did.
âI try to be very non-judgmental when Iâm getting a new COVID patient thatâs unvaccinated, but I really just started asking them, âWhy havenât you gotten the vaccine?â And Iâll just ask it point blank, in the least judgmental way possible,â she said. âAnd most of them, theyâre very honest, they give me answers. âI talked to this person, I saw this thing on Facebook, I got this email, I saw this on the news,â you know, these are all the reasons that I didnât get vaccinated.
âAnd the one question that I always ask them is, did you make an appointment with your primary care doctor and ask them for their opinion on whether or not you should receive the vaccine? And so far, nobody has answered yes to that question.â
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How bout asylum seeking?
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Heâs got a big tatt.
My fam in lockdown in Sydneyhe says , there is no reason for those in those LGAs to leave at all!!!?
No fun for anyone in Sydney ,you are saving lives
Ring of Steel for Glad, but inference that current is tough enough
- pull the other one say I
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the key point isnât is the lock down hard enough or not. its about whether people are being compliant which a ring of steel forces people to be compliant
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The man does make a point. 
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NSW not out of control, unlike Vics last year with exponential growth , he says
Shoots through before the Qs get hot
Youâre asking too hard questions âŚIâm out of here, K thx bye.
Should be printed on the front pages of every newspaper in the country
My wife (health care worker) just got a message urging people to get vaccinated. She works for a major Health Care provider.
They have been eligible for the jab for 4 months.
58% a fully vaccinated.
13% have had one jab.
We are cooked. Itâs lockdown for years.
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cool mini "the package " tat
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Is a ring of steel, as suggested by Daniel Andrews, necessary?
âThe only view that matters on this is the view of the New South Wales Premier, because they are responsible for how they manage the lockdown in New South Wales,â Mr Morrison said.
"Of course the premier discussed these issues with her colleagues today and myself and there was, I think, good and positive discussion around that.
"It was a good opportunity, I think, for the New South Wales Premier to spell out in very specific detail the extensive lockdown that is in place in a New South Wales.
âThere is nothing light about the lockdown in Sydney, I can assure you. My family are in it.â
Cool. Lets go back to the discussion that raged in Round 1 and rehash this again!
Good for you Mr Morrison,
meanwhileâŚ