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New plan to expand access to rapid tests for COVID-19
Major corporations, aged care operators, doctors and government departments can use the 10-minute testing kit to stop transmission.
There's a test that can diagnose COVID in minutes. Why aren't we using it in Australia?
With the country grappling multiple outbreaks, and some people facing long queues to get tested, should we be rolling out rapid COVID tests across the community?
This is a positive that we are finally going with this technology. It will give us more scope to know what we are dealing with faster.
Fool’s gold: NSW ignored lockdown lessons
New South Wales’ much-lauded “gold standard” ability to contain a COVID-19 outbreak has been shattered. Now, every Australian government must finally learn from the mistakes.
The vaccine rollout has been a debacle. The supply lines have been a mess, transparency a mess, information and communication a mess. Promises made of numbers of vaccines available have not been achieved.
That’s from someone who has been involved at the other end of that debacle.
The question of how high we should be on the world vaccine priority list is a totally different discussion and if that was the reason for our government’s performance in the vaccine rollout then it would be relevant but it’s not.
For the record I believe we should be doing all we can as a rich nation to ensure vaccines are rolled out in less developed nations including giving financial support to the WHO’s COVAX program.
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19 cases today. Spread fast. Glad we locked down fast but a worry still thanks to that *smile* in NSW.
With all respect there aren’t infinite resources so you can’t do everything. It’s a nice platitude that as a surface reaction I agreed with but it’s not realistic right now as it isn’t something you can do when supply is limited. We should let countries with excess supply help out why we get ourselves sorted out IMO. This is a few Months old but shows what is happening now where USA is donating to Indonesia (and not Australia) where the sinovax has failed. https://cdn.one.org/pdfs/C19-Vaccine-Supply-and-Demand-in-G7-Countries.pdf
Clearly prioritising higher risk countries is NOT the reason for our *smile* rollout. Without having followed it closely It seems Our excess AZ vaccines (due demand) already seem to be going to more needy locations.
I work with Indonesians every work day and they would certainly not expect Australia to send all its vaccine stock to Indonesia. It's a *smile* argument based on a deliberate misunderstanding of "socialism".
What we definitely can do is help developing countries more while also looking after ourselves, but right wingers tend to dislike that. "charity begins at home" they cry.
That’s not really the point I was making.
Promises of deliveries not kept, wrong amounts arriving, forward plans changed continuously, lack of clarity about priority groups, difference between words and actions in getting vaccines to aged care and disability care, confusing messaging to the public and health authorities.
This is what our vaccine rollout has been like. It’s been a total fiasco.
We have sent large numbers of vaccines to pacific island nations and to Indonesia but what we are sending is AZ because we have excess supply over demand.
Does anyone know if we've stopped producing the AZ vaccine locally? If we have, or slowed down, it's not the right way. Until those manufacturing processes can manufacture a more attractive vaccine, we should still be producing AZ at maximum capacity. In lockdown times like these more people would see reason and get the AZ shot thus helping our overall vaccinated numbers, and any spares can be shipped out to countries in desperate need.
I'm not sure 100% but I do remember, I believe, they were going to continue to manufacture it to ship it to Indonesia to help them.
Beyond that thought I dont know
Found this.
Australian AstraZeneca manufacturer still committed to make 50 million vaccine doses
The Australian manufacturer of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine says it still plans to fill a federal government order of 50 million doses, despite health authorities recommending a different vaccine be preferred for those under 50 years of age.
NSW government finally acknowledges the delta variant applies to them too. Still trying to spin it instead of just saying they *smile* up and are now course correcting.
journalist asked a good question if the advice today had already been given or if today was the first day it has been given. Wasn’t answered of course.
journalist asked a good question if the advice today had already been given or if today was the first day it has been given. Wasn’t answered of course.
Seems like NSW haven't even looked at what failed to work in VIC's lockdowns last year.
We tried locking down just those North Melbourne apartments last year - it didn't work. So they announce, we will just shutdown a few LGA's (and they won't set up a ring of steel, so nothing will stop people moving).
Finally closing retail but its been too late.
Strange comments just hearing from Kerry Chant. VIC have been really clear with working environments (If you can work from home, you MUST do so). Kerry Chant says they are working with businesses to encourage more people to work from home.
Still don't appear to be going hard enough.
We tried locking down just those North Melbourne apartments last year - it didn't work. So they announce, we will just shutdown a few LGA's (and they won't set up a ring of steel, so nothing will stop people moving).
Finally closing retail but its been too late.
Strange comments just hearing from Kerry Chant. VIC have been really clear with working environments (If you can work from home, you MUST do so). Kerry Chant says they are working with businesses to encourage more people to work from home.
Still don't appear to be going hard enough.
Agree. The reticence to just go hard is insane.
they say they want as short a lockdown as possible then continue to double down on wanting people to do the right things. Super risky. And basing it on lagged data and waiting to see effects of changes. It’s a recipe for stretching it out.
they say they want as short a lockdown as possible then continue to double down on wanting people to do the right things. Super risky. And basing it on lagged data and waiting to see effects of changes. It’s a recipe for stretching it out.
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This is 1 of the 1st times I've seen Kerry Chant in a full press conference and OMG the differences between her and Brett Sutton are massive. I'm so glad we've got Sutton, she provides me with no confidence that she knows what shes doing.
