Great posting. I feel for anyone wanting elective surgery, as they will be bumped for many months due to this.
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Rapid Antigen Tests should be free but they’re not.
Even if you want one, you can’t get one for love or money. As absent as the leadership from our PM.
What an absolute shambles.
Even if you want one, you can’t get one for love or money. As absent as the leadership from our PM.
What an absolute shambles.
the Govt pays about $80 for the PCR test, but won't pay $10 for the RA?
if NSW is testing at 20% + now,
then if RA was free and you only get a free PCR after a positive RA,
and 4 out of 5 $10 RA test are negative,
my maths says every 5 tests would cost the govt (5x$10) +(1X$80) = $130
instead of 5X$80 = $400?
saving $270/5 tests.
approx 100,000 tests done in NSW yesterday.
my maths says they could save $5.4m per day with free RA tests
Its not about the money.
The govt have a few people who can do maths.
The RA tests don't exist, cause someone didnt think to order them.
Its probably getting close to triple figures, Morrison balls ups he'll lie through his teeth about
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First it was a lack of vaccines, and now it's RAT kits, Morrison has failed all Australians.
Not enough & the profit making will be next. Unfortunately though all it will mean is people won't test at all.
www.abc.net.au
Rapid tests should be 'as affordable as possible', Chemist Warehouse director says as PM refuses to fund free kits
Scott Morrison continues to resist pressure to make free rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 widely available, as state testing regimes buckle and rapid tests remain scarce.
www.abc.net.au
They are also redefining what elective surgery is. My mates bother has bowel cancer and it’s not life threatening enough (one level below death causing is my understanding, stage 3?) and the surgery is deemed to be elective so he can’t get it.
That is seriously *smile* FB.
I don't care what level it is, cancer is *smile* cancer.
I'm so sorry for your mates brother.
It makes my ******* blood boil to think that unvaccinated schmucks are clogging up hospitals preventing cancer patients getting the treatment they need and deserve
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If you give a rats here's a link...
Coles supermarkets have RAT kits . Kept behind the counter in cigarette area. Limit one pack of two per customer.
Had no trouble getting two packs over the weekend...needed a second for visiting extended family. Next customer offered to buy it for us ! Staff happy to help. Just ask.
Had no trouble getting two packs over the weekend...needed a second for visiting extended family. Next customer offered to buy it for us ! Staff happy to help. Just ask.
Whilst the number of patients in ICU beds has not increased the actual number is a little misleading because there are another 30-40 patients statewide who are still in ICU but aren't in the stats because they don't have COVID anymore but nevertheless that part of the system is coping. The fact that the public hospital system has geared for high ICU numbers means that even if the patients are not there the space is taken up ( an ICU bed takes much more space than a ward bed).
Hospitalisation is going up and that together with the fact that some staff are furloughed and some are on leave means that Emergency depts are incredibly full right now which means pressure on ward capacity and inevitably ambulance wait times as patients can't be admitted as fast because hospital beds are full of COVID patients.
Staffing is a major issue, especially nurses. When you add the extra call for nurses for vaccinations, hotel quarantine, staff being furloughed because they have COVID or are close contacts and that we cannot import nurses from overseas to the increased demand staffing remains a major issue. The other area where staffing is stretched is in what is called community pathways which is a program run by public hospitals and private providers to support COVID positive patients who are not hospitalised. They are called during the day and visited to be monitored and that is very nurse intensive as well.
Noone has redefined elective surgery categorisation which is set nationally so comparisons can be done. There is Cat1, 2 and 3. Cat 3 is definitely lower priority, it is things like cataracts, some orthopaedic surgery etc. Cat 1 has never stopped, it is life threatening and that together with emergency surgery has kept going and has been shared with the Private hospitals. Cat 2 is split between 2A and 2B depending upon urgency as life threatening or pain etc. I am not a doctor but I suspect he has been categorised in Cat 2 as something that can be delayed.
Hospitals are making their own judgements at the margins, they have to.
This is why you will find a lot of people in the hospital system very angry with the unvaccinated. Our ICUs are full of unvaccinated patients and unvaccinated patients over represent the number in the general wards as well. This means that inevitably elective surgery patients are the ones who miss out and that is seen as unfair. They also place hospital staff at risk.
Up to 6 days apparently14,020 cases up 63%, surely due to bank up and delayed results? I know a London Tavern worker who returned a positive RAT test but as of yesterday was STILL waiting for his PCR test taken Thursday
Peoples expectations around speed of testing and getting results given the time of year and the massive increase in cases is surprising. The testing system is under huge pressure.
If you don't want covid do your best to avoid high risk places and have your family members do the same. Most have the choice (excluding those whose work exposes them to higher risk ) to avoid high risk settings.
If the ICU numbers end up meaning they have to make choices around who to treat I hope there is a policy to look after the vaccinated before those who have chosen to be unvaccinated.
If you don't want covid do your best to avoid high risk places and have your family members do the same. Most have the choice (excluding those whose work exposes them to higher risk ) to avoid high risk settings.
If the ICU numbers end up meaning they have to make choices around who to treat I hope there is a policy to look after the vaccinated before those who have chosen to be unvaccinated.
This really *smile* me about the unvaccinated and the calls to treat them the same as everyone else. Why can't the feds convert a portion of Howard Springs into a Hospital, including ICU, for unvaccinated COVID patients? Staff the centre with the medical and frontline professionals who refuse to get vaccinated as well.
Just to make sure there is some compassion, arrange for Novak Djokovic to play an exhibition match there.
We have to learn to live alongside the virus they said. I wonder if the Government has any understanding of how much frustration & resentment is growing towards them?
Here we go again. Whether it's these papers playing sh!t with people or not.....who knows. But this is going too far now.
Is this Sigma or Pi or whatever the f*ck!
Is this Sigma or Pi or whatever the f*ck!
"The numbers of cases we are expecting to see through January ... will be very high, certainly in the hundreds of thousands if not more in Queensland. Very high," he said.
www.abc.net.au
'Omicron changed everything': Queenslanders warned COVID numbers are set to get 'very high'
There are almost 26,000 confirmed COVID cases in the state, but authorities believe the actual number is likely to be far higher with many cases still unconfirmed because of lengthy delays at testing sites.
www.abc.net.au
Morrison says he has 'spoken to industry' (chemists), and the private sector/ market is the best way to distribute RATs. CEO of Chemist Warehouse, and a senior exec, both come out within a couple of hours and say they have not spoken to the government about RATs, and they believe the best way forward is for the government to make them free.
I'm starting to think Morrison is a compulsive liar. I saw the press conference when he said he 'spoke to industry', before I saw the industry response and he was completely unconvincing.
this government are a disgrace.
I'm starting to think Morrison is a compulsive liar. I saw the press conference when he said he 'spoke to industry', before I saw the industry response and he was completely unconvincing.
this government are a disgrace.
