Kid. Aus. Vaccines. Want to know why you can’t get an appointment ? Different dates, different instructions, zero confidence we won’t have to reshuffle. How hard it is to get the logistics sorted???? This CREATES stress and work for all.
Some comments from Practice Managers trying to crescent the national. Again.
“I got this one….. does that mean the stock I ordered Monday now won’t be here until the week of the 14th and not the 7th like originally told??? So why do we plan and forecast????”
“But wait I have had two notifications with two different dates sent two hours apart🤪🤪🤪. Not confident to plan any clinics until the stock arrives now.”
Christmas Day 2021. NSW hit a new national record of 6,288 (a magnitude of an undercount) & Vic keen to join us. Every Aus Child under 12 still unvaccinated.
A thread on Children, Schools and Childcare in Australia in response to Omicron.
1/61 This thread should be read in addition to advice provided by OzSAGE entitled “Protecting children from COVID-19 and making schools and childcare safer” published 1 Oct 21 and is in response to the emergence of the Omicron Variant. (ozsage.org/media_releases…)
2/61 Highlights
•Early evidence relating to the new Omicron variant suggests that younger, immune-naive populations including children under 5 years old, were experiencing higher rates of disease and hospitalisation than with previous strains of COVID-19.
Australia must take urgent coordinated national action on aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
The Hon Greg Hunt MP
Minister for Health and Aged Care
Parliament of Australia
Via email: Minister.Hunt@health.gov.au
Dear Minister Hunt
Urgent upgrades of respiratory protection for healthcare workers are needed as well as improved ventilation in healthcare settings, other indoor public spaces and private homes.
In July of 2020, 239 international scientists brought the issue of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to the world stage.[1] Since the publication of their letter, there has been increased recognition of this route of transmission from the World Health Organization (WHO),
I don’t know who needs to hear this but there is no slack in Aus hospital systems, each resource / ICU bed allocated to a COVID Patient comes with denial of access to other patients. It also requires staff (a limited resource) who in-turn require PPE which remains in short supply
When PPE is exhausted, HCWs are at increased risk, furthering resource pressures. If recently expressed political and self appointed Med Guru messaging reflects the strategic thinking of our leaders, then I hope which ever deity / higher power / universe you call upon help us all
To them collective action is illegitimate. They think because vaccines go into people and reduce their chance of getting sick it's an individual protective action, therefore the way to go. And if you decide not to, then you're taking the risk.