Thread by @juliette_io

🚨 Those NSW hospitalisation numbers are >24 hrs behind and the situation is changing fast

ICU / ventilation increases this morning:

63 / 19 - NSW Health tweet 1
69 / 19 - NSW Health tweet 2
78 / 24 - Patient Flow Portal early AM
80 / 28 - PFP 10.20AM

#covid19aus #COVID19nsw

So from 8PM last night to mid-morning today ...

ICU patients have increased 16%
Ventilated patients have increased 47%

It is a huge jump

Both Omicron and Delta are circulating widely and feeding these numbers

*There are people with both variants in ICU*

We have little idea how much Covid there is in NSW, let alone the Delta v Omicron split

We do not know what hospitalisation / ICU / ventilation rates to expect

The best we can do is report on what is happening *right now*. Not what happened more than 24 hours ago

So on that note, I implore healthcare workers to contact me or any other journalist you trust and tell them what is happening

If you contact me, your confidentiality is guaranteed

I can report these numbers because of some conscientious, brave, proactive individuals

The political and bureaucratic muzzling of healthcare workers - threatening them with sacking if they speak out - is anti-democratic

Forget what's *going to* happen. We barely know what's happening right now

Clarification: 'There are people with both variants in ICU' = There are people with the Delta variant in ICU and there are people with the Omicron variant in ICU. I did not mean there are individuals with both variants simultaneously.