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Chief Health Officer, Victoria

27 Apr, 8 tweets, 3 min read

THREAD: With over 350,000 cases of COVID-19 reported daily in India, it's clear that the pandemic is far from over globally. The true *daily* figure is probably over two million. I'm very glad that there is now urgent consideration of critical support to the Government of India.

This is also a stark reminder that we will need high vaccination coverage to truly protect the Australian population. With all over-50s becoming eligible to receive - as I have - the AstraZeneca vaccine, I really hope we see increasing uptake from here on in.

From over 10,000 cases per day, this is what vaccination help achieve for Israel. This has included the first days without a death recorded for over a year. Israel has done it with Pfizer, but the UK and US are coming down from even higher numbers with a strong vaccine roll-out.

Here's the UK's trajectory, mostly achieved with AstraZeneca.

I understand people have concerns about the potential side effects from the AstraZeneca vaccine. And, although these are very rare, they're still serious. abc.net.au/news/2021-04-2…

I just want to emphasise that while Australia has the great fortune of being effectively free of COVID-19, the pandemic rages on globally. This presents a serious and ongoing risk to Australia and vaccination is our best protection against it.

So while we strengthen Hotel Quarantine, recognising that #COVIDisAirborne and protect our frontline and quarantine workers, we have to continue to push for everyone eligible to step forward to get vaccinated. I have. My (eligible) family have. I hope you can too.

For vaccination bookings, please go to: coronavirus.vic.gov.au/book-your-vacc…

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Chief Health Officer, Victoria

@VictorianCHO

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Lots of confusion about quarantine vs isolation. Quarantine = the period when you may be incubating illness or the period following exposure before you may develop illness. This period applies to close contacts and international travellers who may have been exposed overseas. 1/x

Quarantine is 14 days (REGARDLESS of test results) because someone in quarantine could become positive at ANY POINT in this timeframe. A negative test is no guarantee that you won't become positive later in the 14 day period. You may. You may not. 2/x

Isolation = the period required for a confirmed case to be away from others because they are infectious or potentially infectious. People with COVID-19 are understood to be infectious from 1-2 days before symptoms until a maximum of 10 days after, if symptoms have resolved. 3/x

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Chief Health Officer, Victoria

@VictorianCHO

27 Nov 20

https://twitter.com/vicgovdhhs/status/1332068932270903297

This is rightly worthy of celebration. After the toughest year for many Victorians, it’s important to recognise this achievement. It took all of us to get here and it was a long and painful journey but we held the course. I can’t thank Victorians enough for that.

https://twitter.com/vicgovdhhs/status/1332068932270903297

Many have suffered enormously through recent months and many more continue to struggle. We should never forget that, and so we must continue to reach out to help each other. Over 800 Victorians tragically died. Parents, grandparents, people we love and miss.

So it’s also only right that many of us still feel anxious, angry or burdened by sadness. Mistakes were made and we owe a duty to learn from everything we’ve been through. I have only ever had protecting the health and wellbeing of Victorians in mind and I will always do so.

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Chief Health Officer, Victoria

@VictorianCHO

15 Apr 20

My advice to the Victorian Government was and continues to be that to slow the spread of coronavirus, schools should undertake remote learning for term two.
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This is because having around a million children and their parents in closer contact with each other, teachers and other support staff has the potential to increase cases of coronavirus not just in schools but across the community. 2/3

By having remote learning, it can contribute to physical distancing and therefore supports efforts to drive transmission down.
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Chief Health Officer, Victoria

@VictorianCHO

23 Feb 20

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Victoria has been working on its #pandemic preparedness for #COVID19 for some weeks. It's clear that with local transmission in several countries that a pandemic is very likely, if not inevitable. We are working rapidly on planning and surge with our health sector. (1/6)

We've provided guidance to practitioners and many communications materials but are now focused on the models of care that will need to be in place - clinics, phone triage, home care, right through to ICU and aged care. There are dozens focused on this across the sector. (2/6)

Victoria and Australia nonetheless remain completely in containment mode - identifying any possible case; isolating those who are infectious; and quarantining contacts. Regardless of developments internationally, this gives all of us time and space to plan and prepare. (3/6)

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