Coronavirus

[Ian4]

1 Covid Case in QLD.
Australia goes mad!

This one is different. There were always gonna be more cases. 4 more today and you'd think there will be more. I haven't agreed with the recent lockdowns in VIC, WA and QLD, but I do agree this time around. And I think it'll be for longer than 3 days.

This is why the slowness of the vaccine rollout is an issue.

Quarantine works but is bloody hard to get quarantine to work perfectly.

Where are the vaccines?

DS

Its my understadning the plan was to have 4 million vaccines done by the end of March and we have only just passed the 500,000 mark.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Absolutely. Thats why I called bullsh*t a few weeks ago on Murphy's ridiculous statement that Australia didn't need to hurry its vaccination program. Slo-mo has used the same types of statements too.

This Qld outbreak has problems written all over it by the sounds. Lock Qld off to Victoria ? WA look close to doing so.

Don't worry we are front of the queue.

 

[IanG]

Absolutely. Thats why I called bullsh*t a few weeks ago on Murphy's ridiculous statement that Australia didn't need to hurry its vaccination program. Slo-mo has used the same types of statements too.

This Qld outbreak has problems written all over it by the sounds. Lock Qld off to Victoria ? WA look close to doing so.

From the beginning of this pandemic it has been clear that Murphy is a politician first and foremost and a medical specialist 2nd. Left up to him we would be in a similar position now to the UK and USA.

 

[Redford]

Don't worry we are front of the queue.

Yeah but the turnstile is closed.

 

[Tigers of Old]

BTW a reminder jobkeeper ended yesterday. Shame the pandemic didn't eh?

 

[eZyT]

I'm certainly getting that feeling. Due to depart on the 7th..
Last holiday I book until I've gotten the vaccine cause this is absolute (expensive) *smile*.

a week is like a year these days Oldy.

I wouldn't give up on your trip.

Now saying that its spread to Byron Bay.

Fingers crossed Pete Evans gets a dose and injects a cocktail of bleach, anti-malarials and miracle water into himself.

 

[Redford]

While supply has been a thorn to date, with CSL now producing 1 million doses per week, that should quickly become a non issue. What's a worry is the actual capacity to dispense. Think I read the other day only 1,000 GP's nationally have registered to dispense. I asked a girl in a very large GP that is dispensing right now how many vaccinations a day they were doing and she said 60. There's a lot of paperwork, validation, waiting etc. We need those big hubs up and running asap. Remember you need two doses to be properly innocculated.

The Americans have done 91 million first doses, and 50 million second doses in the space of a couple of months - and that's using the more logistically difficult Pfizer vaccine and its freezing requirements.

 

[DavidSSS]

For the life of me I cannot understand why they aren't going to do the vaccinations at the local town hall like they do with the childhood vaccinations. They could have started planning this months ago, you know, plan for when the vaccine is more available.

Is there anyone who has any idea of logistics in this government?

DS

 

[MD Jazz]

This is why the slowness of the vaccine rollout is an issue.

Quarantine works but is bloody hard to get quarantine to work perfectly.

Where are the vaccines?

DS

The feds have dropped the ball bigtime on quarantine. What an opportunity to show leadership wasted.

 

[Redford]

For the life of me I cannot understand why they aren't going to do the vaccinations at the local town hall like they do with the childhood vaccinations. They could have started planning this months ago, you know, plan for when the vaccine is more available.

Is there anyone who has any idea of logistics in this government?

DS

Heaps of GP's are saying the rego process, information, validation steps to follow with patients etc is just all over the place. So, besides the logistical and supply elements (heaps of GP's still don't have any supplies and don't know when they are getting them) there's also the admin and process issues with all of this.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Some good news.

AstraZeneca Vaccine 100% Effective In Preventing Severe Disease And Hospitalizations, U.S. Trials Show

AstraZeneca says the large scale trials showed no safety concerns with regard to blood clots.

www.forbes.com

 

[Althom]

While supply has been a thorn to date, with CSL now producing 1 million doses per week, that should quickly become a non issue. What's a worry is the actual capacity to dispense. Think I read the other day only 1,000 GP's nationally have registered to dispense. I asked a girl in a very large GP that is dispensing right now how many vaccinations a day they were doing and she said 60. There's a lot of paperwork, validation, waiting etc. We need those big hubs up and running asap. Remember you need two doses to be properly innocculated.

The Americans have done 91 million first doses, and 50 million second doses in the space of a couple of months - and that's using the more logistically difficult Pfizer vaccine and its freezing requirements.

There's apparently another 4000 GP Clinics coming on line through April. Our GP has told us they'll get 50 doses a weeks starting from the 12th April and they've been "promised" that will rise to a couple of hundred by June.
There's absolutely no chance though of meeting Morrison and Hunt's initial promise of everyone inncolulated by October and that's even if you believe the new interpretation that they meant everyone would have at least one jab by October.
The Yanks can get 3M people innoculated in a day. Going on current performance we'd battle to get 30k done in a day.
What's wrong with simply flashing your Medicare card and doing the record keeping via Medicare? You can link it to your MyGov account (if you wish) and then it's there and available to anyone you want to show it to via the Medicare Express App.
Someone seems to have decided this needs to be more complicated than is necessary

 

[Bunnerz]

another 10 today wasnt it?
they will want under 10 tomorrow or this thing could be off again (hopefully QLD only)

 

[DavidSSS]

4,000 GPs getting 50 doses a week, that's 200,000 people vaccinated per week, should have this done by 2050.

DS

 

[Ridley]

another 10 today wasnt it?
they will want under 10 tomorrow or this thing could be off again (hopefully QLD only)

Yes 10 but only 4 of them were community transmission. I assume that means the other 6 were in hotel quarantine.

 

[Redford]

Some good news.

AstraZeneca Vaccine 100% Effective In Preventing Severe Disease And Hospitalizations, U.S. Trials Show

AstraZeneca says the large scale trials showed no safety concerns with regard to blood clots.

www.forbes.com

That came out a few days ago. What was also good news is that on Thursday, despite originally using old data and claiming a 79% efficacy rate for symptomatic Covid (which the CDC arked up about), AZ updated their data and still came in with a 76% result. Further, I think that was based on 2 doses using a 4 week interval which AZ is saying can be significantly improved using a 12 week interval.

What's not clear I don't think, is what its efficacy and serious illness and mortality rates are though with more recent strains.

 

[Althom]

With the QLD outbreak can anyone recall how many days it has been since they lifted restrictions based on having beaten the last outbreak and are they suggesting that this current out break is linked back to that previous one?

 

[Tigers of Old]

Greater Qld about to be announced as a red zone to Victoria.

 

[caesar]

That came out a few days ago. What was also good news is that on Thursday, despite originally using old data and claiming a 79% efficacy rate for symptomatic Covid (which the CDC arked up about), AZ updated their data and still came in with a 76% result. Further, I think that was based on 2 doses using a 4 week interval which AZ is saying can be significantly improved using a 12 week interval.

What's not clear I don't think, is what its efficacy and serious illness and mortality rates are though with more recent strains.

Had my first jab of Astra last week, surprised I got in so quick.

 

[TT33]

Had my first jab of Astra last week, surprised I got in so quick.

Get my 1st on Wednesday