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Went round to a “friends” apartment on nyd for lunch.
He declined to let me know he was awaiting a PCR test result.
Got a message last night letting me know he got a positive result.
Needless to say, I’m not happy.
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That’s pretty ordinary.
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“It’s the beginning of the end of the pandemic”
The marketing department at Pfizer are not going to like this one bit Darce.
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Yep the effects of Omicron are apparently for nearly everyone very mild. It’s all upper repository.*
The things beat. The health advice could actually be “covid parties” for the young and healthy**
*says the internet and not a doctor.
**not advice and could be very reckless.
Didn’t caps its.
Amateur 
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Spicy
Delta Dan coming home strong and only trailing by a couple of lengths but can’t see Domicron being caught from here
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Guardian
Brett Holmes is the general secretary at NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association.
He writes in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning talking about the situation in NSW hospitals:
Over the weekend, an ICU nurse at an outer-metropolitan hospital declared, “We are falling like flies.” In the state’s north, an ICU nurse said, “We’ve had two years to prepare for this and it’s still ■■■■ everywhere”; another reflected, “There’s nothing left in the tank.” “Staffing has become so bad that many ICUs are working without team leaders or the nurses they need in addition to bedside nurses to keep the units working seamlessly.”
He says nurses have been told not to remove their masks or glasses when they’re together – even if socially distanced. “If pulled from home isolation, they can only travel to and from work, with strictly no stops. They are not provided with rapid antigen kits for home use, having to do these tests at work under supervision.
“Some have been waiting three days or more for their PCR test results, even for testing that has been fast-tracked for health workers.”
COOKED!!!
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I won’t believe it unless Lorde sings it and Dr Nick “vote for me” C says the complete opposite.
Western health issuing a plea for people to stop flooding emergency departments with minor symptoms and/or just wanting rapid tests.
Everywhere is stretched beyond functional levels.
They need to get all these RAT kits out to market, it’s a huge problem . Essentially, the “let it rip” ideology is being forced into effect, because without timely results a hell of a lot of people won’t bother. And that case load will transfer to hospitals, where staff actually are policing testing and you’ll end up with no staff at for a few weeks.
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fwiw, NSW ICU modelling. 579 ICU covid cases(assumes baseline demand of 387 non covid usage) and there’s minimal impact on ICU operations.
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I mean that’s extremely misleading since that’s cumulative ICU numbers across the state. What’s the breakpoint in any one individual hospital for ICU capacity?
It also assumes full staffing measures, whereas we now have wide reporting of understaffing and overloading
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Staffing levels would now be the chief concern. As a percentage of cases, ICU needs are clearly dropping heavily relative to Delta. But that’ll be cold comfort to those who do need it, and find that either it’s terribly understaffed, or those in other areas of the hospital who are understaffed because they’ve been diverted to ICU as an emergency response.
1 in 4 tests in NSW and Vic currently returning positives. Even with lower virulence - which is more or less certain now - that’s a big load on the health system overall.
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702 in Tassie from just on 2k tests.
Very few in hospital so far
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