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Would have thought a givt that values teachers like Vic would prioritised them. But it's symptomatic of having no plan or will to get students back. If they had that motivation then teacher vaccination would have emerged as a key plank. (As said before once Andrews returned Merlino total focus should have been on covid safe schools)
It is the screwy way our health system runs 22. KRudd tried to change it and failed.
States regulate and run hospitals and parts of public health policy but the federal Govt has jurisdiction over primary care which includes GPs and pharmacies, to the extent of licensing them to dispense drugs . GPs are funded ( to the extent they are) by Medicare, through the Commonwealth Dept of Health. Prescription drugs through the PBS, also the Commonwealth DH
Liaison between hospitals and primary care is through PHNs ( primary health networks) regulated by the feds
Aged Care is commonwealth who license some state puiblic health services to undertake it as well as privates providers, mental health in hospitals and most community MH is state but some mental health like Headspace is commonwealth.
Flow of funding is whole other issue which would take a week to explain.
Bottom line is we couldn’t make it more complicated and disjointed if we tried !!
COVID zero in Victoria is extinct. Can't *smile* wait until 80% full vaccination so we can get on with our lives. When is that projected to be? November?
Geez these small business owners that can't operate at all must be at their wits' end.
Yep these has been the worst lockdown as far as effectiveness goes. Delta has kicked its arse.
That said we would have NSW style numbers if we didn't do it so unfortunately there was no choice. Need to find a way forward now though.
Its actually moving faster than NSW at this point. 369 more cases at day 28.
This is a real concern given that we have had a much harder lockdown from early on; in comparison to NSW. Just shows that many in the community have given up and are ignoring the lockdown.
Hopefully we can do it quicker, pending getting more vaccines. The additional 450k pfizer for 18-39's will start coming on (I think those bookings either started Monday or today, so hopefully start seeing 1st doses ramping up. Not sure what gap they are providing in between doses. I'll find out Friday, probably 4-6 weeks
Is that a result of taking it more seriously with well targeted contract tracing and testing? Or did someone attend an anti-vax rally when it all started?
As I keep saying, if we open up at "80%" (which is not really 80%, but 64%), it will be an unmitigated disaster. we will be heading down the point of no return.
As I said yesterday and will keep saying… Unless the Doherty Report is revisited and tweaked, then the ONLY OPTION is COVID zero.
Nobody could be surprised by this number surely given the protests a couple of weeks ago. Many doing the wrong thing now.
Why do you say COVID zero is the only option? Countries in Europe and the USA have opened up with higher vaccination rates; why can't we do the same? COVID zero is dead in Victoria and especially NSW. We are 5 weeks into a hard lockdown and our numbers are going up, not down.
Do you think we should stay locked down like this forever?
Heaps of cases and deaths in England but they don't seem to care. Florida has an anti-mask Governor so can't imagine they would be travelling too well.
