This open letter signed by 400+ HCW & Experts was sent to the prime minister, federal health minister, state premiers and health ministers, federal / State CMO's and the members of AHPPC, CDNA, ICEG asking for urgent coordinated national action on aerosol transmission of Covid19
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It is good to see the UK move to recognise the importance of Ventilation..... tick tock Australia gov.uk/government/pub…
This arvo: woke up after another 4 hour crashing sleep. I go from being up for a while to not being able to open my eyes because my head has an ocean in it and my brain is incredibly sea sick while at the same time seem to lose capacity to concentrate on getting words … 1/
out of my mouth coherently despite them being clearly formed in my brain anything to feeling nausea amd making my way to bed with my eyes shut only to wake up hours later.
The sleep state is so deep that anything could happen & I would have no idea. In fact I just woke up & Teddy is on me & he is unwell (can’t open his eye, unusually subdued). I don’t even remember my daughter waking me to tell me the story about him, how worried she is about him.
Omicron can smack you around & put you in hospital despite being fully vaxxed. As a reasonably fit 55 yo asthmatic who lives in NSW I can also state that you have almost zero chance of getting Paxlovid in time (5 days) to stop that happening, despite desperately trying to get it.
Because I did not fit the guidelines for govt supply I tried to buy Paxlovid on a private script (properly assessed by an experienced Covid Doctor & safely prescribed) but I could not access it despite being willing & lucky enough to be able to pay for it. No supply available.
I spoke to more than 10 different health care providers on the Covid phone lines sent to me by NSW Dept Health, each of whom had no idea who I was, what the history was, what the last person advised me.
Conflicting advice was the norm. Some of it unsafe. And that is being kind.
The most dangerous word of this pandemic has been “mild”
Mild is a minor inconvenience.
Mild has no lasting impact.
Mild is tolerable.
Mild is not debilitating.
Mild does not cause chronic disease.
Mild does not affect your brain, heart and other organs.
More than 100 persistent symptoms of COVID-19 have been reported in the literature. Only commonly reported and emerging symptoms have been included in the living table.